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| Eurotunnel’s landscaping |
The Terrasses de Coquelles business park lies in the heart of the Mixed Development Zone (ZAC) of the French Channel Tunnel terminal and benefits directly from the high-quality facilities already installed by Eurotunnel.
In terms of landscaping, signage, public fittings and buildings, Eurotunnel has made every effort to ensure that the ZAC is a shining example. The company sought advice from the very best architects and planners to make it what it is today.
The urban planning and landscaping is the work of the urban architects Berger and Guérin, from the Signes agency, one of the co-designers of the Parc André Citroën in Paris.
Yann Kersalé, who will forever be known for lighting up the Champs Elysées, designed the dynamic-lighting columns. Paul Andreu, who brought to us some of the world’s most impressive airports such as Roissy, designed the Cité de l’Europe shopping centre and Jean-Michel Wilmotte designed Marques Avenue, the huge designer outlet complex.
But for Eurotunnel, architectural quality goes hand in hand with respect for the environment. It was this very factor that led the governments on both sides of the channel to award Eurotunnel the fixed rail link contract.
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| Lighting of the Cité Europe by Yann Kersalé |
The company’s maintenance and operational set-ups are a perfect example of this. They blend in perfectly with ZAC’s surroundings which include 300 hectares of greenery in a total surface area of 700 hectares. As soon as construction work was completed, Eurotunnel adopted its own unique green area management policy and launched a long-term flora and fauna scheme.
This ecological follow-up programme, carried out by the ‘Groupe Ornithologique du Nord’ since 1993, has highlighted the French site’s contribution to the nation’s environmental heritage.
The Greylag goose continues to nest on site and the local Northern lapwing population is one of the largest throughout the region. The first invertebrate inventories indicate the presence of dragonflies, an increasingly rare occurrence in modern-day Europe.
