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Pierresvives is a plan of the Department of Hérault. On a 10 hectare plot located in Montpellier, in the junction of Paillade, Malbosc and Alco, a building of utility in Héraultais and a new quarter will come into the world in 2012.

Around the building, the Department does up a new quarter consisting of accommodation, trade, services, offices, activities and equipment.

The eponymous building pierresvives, conceived by the architect Zaha Hadid, will shelter from his part the departmental Archives of Hérault, the departmental Multimedia library and Hérault Sport: 60 km of archives to be kept in a drastic way (some people date from the Xth century) within concrete silos assuring a hygrometry and a temperature controlled; about 300 000 works (pounds, CD, DVD), an amphitheatre, rooms of exhibition, a will asserted to hire these departmental services in numerical revolution …

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