Since 2014, Mayor Anne Hidalgo has made it her mission to make Paris as green as possible. To reach this goal, she has introduced the city to a range of eco-friendly initiatives, from monthly “car-free” days to permits for private urban gardens. Now, one of her most monumental dreams is coming true, as British architecture studio Gustafson Porter + Bowman has won the opportunity to turn the site of the Eiffel Tower into a “21st-century destination for one of Paris’ largest parks.” ‘OnE Site is the unification of all these spaces, as in a landscape painting where multiple colours, different textures combine to form a single image, a single mind and a sole composition,’ the studio says in a press note. ‘A complex urban site must reveal unity, continuity and diversity.’ To realise this vision, OnE will comprise several different interlocking landscapes with one thing in common: a focus on going green Called OnE, Gustafson Porter + Bowman’s plan will transform the space surrounding the tower into an open-plan oasis. Embracing the fact that the Eiffel Tower stands on an axis connecting several important points-including the the Pont d’Iéna Bridge, the Place du Trocadéro, the Champ de Mars, and the Palais de Chaillot, among others-the design is driven by the idea of a unified Paris. “OnE Site is the unification of all these spaces, as in a landscape painting where multiple colours, different textures combine to form a single image, a single mind and a sole composition,” the studio says in a press note. “A complex urban site must reveal unity, continuity and diversity.” To realise this vision, OnE will comprise several different interlocking landscapes with one thing in common: a focus on going green. The Iéna Bridge, for example, will be “reincarnated as a green promenade,” while plants and pedestrians will reclaim the concrete and congested Trocadéro. In each case, Gustafson Porter + Bowman are confident that a new landscape will make a trip to the Eiffel Tower an experience rich in “pleasure and contemplation.” The first stage of the project is set to be completed in 2023-just in time for Paris’ highly anticipated 2024 Olympic Games.