Editing Les Halles (section)

===21st century redesign===
Against that background, in 2002 Mayor [[Bertrand Delanoë]] announced that the City of Paris would begin public consultations regarding the remodeling of the area, calling Les Halles "a soulless, architecturally bombastic concrete jungle".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66Q4GG20100727 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202023710/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66Q4GG20100727 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |title=Revamp of the Belly of Paris meets resistance |first=Michael |last=Rose |website=[[Reuters]] |date=July 27, 2010 |access-date=2023-10-27}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite news| last=Riding| first=Alan| title=For Paris, the Newest Look Is a Canopy| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/arts/design/07hall.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=July 7, 2007| access-date=October 27, 2023| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

A design competition for the Forum and gardens was held, with entries from [[Jean Nouvel]], [[Winy Maas]], [[David Mangin]], and [[Rem Koolhaas]]. Mangin's design for the gardens, which proposed replacing the landscaped mounds and paths of the 1980s design with a simplified pattern of east–west pedestrian promenades and a large central lawn, was selected. The plan also included extending the pedestrianized area further east to include all the streets bordering the gardens. Another competition was held for the redesign of the Forum. Ten teams submitted plans, and the proposal by [[Patrick Berger]] and [[Jacques Anziutti]] was selected in 2007. Their design included a large undulating glass canopy covering the redesigned Forum.<ref name="auto1"/> STIF and RATP began plans for the remodeling of the Châtelet-Les-Halles station in 2007, and the following year Berger and Anziutti were awarded a contract for redesign of the station.

The station redesign included new entrances on Rue Berger, Rue Rambuteau, and Place Marguerite de Navarre, an expanded [[Réseau Express Régional|RER]] concourse, and improved pedestrian circulation. Construction began in 2010 on the gardens, Forum, and station.<ref name="auto"/> The canopy over the Forum was inaugurated in April 2016;<ref>{{cite news |title=Paris hopes to turn its old 'belly' into new 'beating heart' |url=https://www.thelocal.fr/20160405/introducing-the-canopy-new-forum-des-halles-opens-in-central-paris |access-date=2023-12-11 |work=The Local France |publisher=The Local Europe AB |date=2016-04-05}}</ref> construction finished in 2018.