PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS VERSUS JEAN NEW: financial litigation is sold

The organization claimed 170 million euros to the architect, because of the additional costs during the site of the prestigious concert hall.

Le Monde with AFP

This is the end of a long judicial arm. The architect Jean Nouvel and the PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS concluded “a transaction agreement” putting an end to the financial dispute which opposed them since 2017 on the site of the prestigious concert hall, they announced Thursday, October 21 in a common statement.

The Philharmonie de Paris demanded 170 million euros to the architect, because of the extra charges during the site. Jean Nouvel had filed a complaint in October 2019, and then obtained the opening of a judicial information in February for “favoritism, illegal interest, misappropriation of public funds, concussion, false and use of false” by the financial prosecution.

From now on, “it is put in a fully satisfactory way for each of the parties to all of their disputes, all areas combined, especially on costs and delays,” write the architect and philharmonic. “The parties, who recognize that these disputes were the consequence of divergence and misunderstandings, decided to overcome them by engaging in a dialogue for the purpose of respecting and protecting the cultural public interest.”

A program. of complementary work

The project management, insured by Jean Nouvel and the company of workshops Jean Nouvel (AJN), and the public establishment of the Cité de la Music-Philharmonie de Paris “no longer have any claim, of any kind Whether, one towards the other, including in the title of intellectual property rights resulting from the realization of the Paris Philharmonic “, continue the parties.

m. New, AJN and the PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS “are destroying and permanently renounced any complaint, proceeding and action, before any jurisdiction”. The two parties also announce “to make the realization of a complementary work program, adopted in the framework of a 15 million euro envelope decided in agreement with the State”, which will be carried out under the master’s degree of ajn and Jean Nouveau.

/Media reports.