03. skate spot , republic.
The hottest place in Paris right now .
. on the eve of the Olympics. With the backing of the city council, there are several public skate parks in Paris. The public park along the Canal Saint-Martin is attached to a basketball court, and there are moms watching over the dads' pickup game and the kids' skateboarding at the same time. So, Banjaman, Chuck, and the skaters Santiago and Emilian who were moving with us, all said, "This is the hottest spot in Paris," Republic in the 3rd arrondissement. This is not a park , but a spot. Curved boxes and steers are laid out in a civic square in the city. Santiago, a skater who majored in architecture, led the planning of the project.
He consciously created it as a vocabulary of furniture and architecture, sectional in the plaza. . a vocabulary rather than a skate section. . This is the key, and there is a reason why he insists on it as a skate spot rather than a park. . If you fence it off as a park, it becomes a space separate from the street and the city. Parisian skaters are looking for a place where people can create freely as a spot. . And that the place must be a multi-purpose space that can be pushed out to the streets. Republic was a place where skaters with a philosophy of street skating, and other fierce skaters from all over the world gathered.
The Palais de Tokyo attracts even more young skaters than the Republic in the 3rd arrondissement. It is a square near the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, but it is a skate spot by anyone's standards. Also, in the Pigalle district of the 6th arrondissement, the Pigalle store has opened up a basketball playground, which is attracting a lot of attention as a new street spot.
