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QUAI KENNEDY
This is the latest condominium building to be built in Monte Carlo.
Its stunning location overlooks the stretch of water of Port Hercule, teeming with super-yachts, making it visible from the port and all the yachts.
Its eclectic and composite architecture is embellished with a base of striated marble supplied and fabricated by Furrer, giving it an elegance worthy of the Principality.
However you come to Monte Carlo, by land or sea, the first structures you see are cranes.
Yes, because Monte Carlo is a constant work in progress.
The sumptuous and luxurious residential building at Quai Kennedy, on the south seafront of Port Hercule, the historic port of Montecarlo, is one of the latest and most visible real estate projects.
Built by the Groupe Pastor, the leading constructor of luxury buildings in the Principality, it offers apartments all with spectacular views of the harbor and seafront.
In fact, almost unheard of in Monte Carlo, it has no other buildings in front of it and its composite façade can be admired in its whole extension from the basin of the port and the rise that leads to Monaco, the ancient town built above of the castle, the Prince’s residence.
This outstanding location also allows visitors and passers-by to get an excellent view of Furrer’s consignment of striated marble slabs which form the base of the building and endow it with a distinctive character, with the veining running horizontally to the parallel development which characterizes the whole ground floor and mezzanine level, forming a plinth with a great visual impact whose horizontal movement seems to support the verticality of the building.
As always Furrer placed all its engineering expertise and craftsmanship at Pastor’s disposal for the cutting, polishing and laying of this very special and now rare stone.
Construction in Monte Carlo is always very complicated, given the endemic lack of space.
It calls for very special experience and expertise.
“The great difficulty in Monaco,” observes Patrice Pastor, president of Pastor J.B. et Fils, “is how to make the most of space.
To build Quai Kennedy, where the building occupies the whole available lot, we had to use innovative techniques to minimize disturbance to traffic in ways that enabled us to complete this exceptional building without ever encroaching on the road”.
The building also occupies a perfect position for watching what is perhaps the most famous event in the world among the many held in the Principality: the Formula 1 Grand Prix.
The circuit passes right under the windows, just before the cars whizz into the Fairmont Hotel tunnel.
The neighbor at the Quai Kennedy will be the splendid new Yacht Club de Monaco, a long-established institution presided over by Prince Albert since 1988.
Today it still stands on its first location, at the end of the north side of Port Hercule.
The new clubhouse was designed by the star architect Sir Norman Foster and the Monegasque architect Alexandre Giraldi.
The image is that of an ocean liner at berth, but its fittings will be at the cutting edge of eco-sustainability, a point of particular importance to Prince Albert.
From the windows of Quai Kennedy you can participate not only visually in the busy life of the port, but all the many events organized by the YCM, from sailing regattas to powerboat racing, the rowing competitions and parades of historic boats.
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