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Central Tooling and Engraving Workshop (ACOG), Monnaie de Paris (French Mint)

Exceptional commemorative coins would once again be struck in the Grand Monnayage building under this proposal, which focused on opening the main courtyard and relocating and redesigning several specialised workshops...

Building type
Architecture, Heritage
Client
La Monnaie de Paris
Lead architect
Philippe Prost / AAPP
Gaël Lesterlin, Project manager
Mathilde Mouchel, Project manager
Aurélie Lopes, Project manager
Antonio, Project assistant
Design team
WSP France, Engineering department
TCE Economie, Life Cycle Assessment and Acoustics consultancy
Batiss, Fire safety system coordination
Project scope
New construction
Surface
2 000 sqm
Cost
3,8 M € excl. VAT
Photography
Benjamin Chelly
Aitor Ortiz
Statut
Réalisé

Exceptional commemorative coins would once again be struck in the Grand Monnayage building under this proposal, which focused on opening the main courtyard and relocating and redesigning several specialised workshops for foundry, engraving, patina, and gilding. A new central tooling and engraving workshop would also be built on a pentagonal plot and sheltered by the old boundary wall along the Impasse de Conti. Spread across four floors able to bear loads of up to four tonnes per square metre, the building is entirely clad in perforated copper panels, echoing the metal sheets from which coin blanks are cut.