La Seine Musicale

La Seine Musicale is a music and performing arts center located on Île Seguin an island on the Seine river between Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, in the western suburbs of Paris, France.
Events.
La Seine Musicale was inaugurated on April 22, 2017 with a concert by , accompanied by the Accentus choir, conducted by Laurence Equilbey. During inauguration week, on 21 April 2017, Bob Dylan was the first artist to perform a musical show at the venue. On 8 December 2018, the venue hosted the final draw of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On 20 May 2021, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and French broadcaster France Télévisions announced that the center will host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021. The contest will take place on 19 December 2021 and will be the first time that France has hosted the contest, as well as the first Eurovision event to be hosted in the country since Eurovision Young Dancers 1999 in Lyon.
Construction and facilities.
In July 2009, the lead coordinating architect for the project was named as Jean Nouvel; although individual buildings have subsequently been commissioned from a range of international architectural practices. The initial complex of buildings on the island opened in April 2017 and were designed by the architectural team of Shigeru Ban and .
The facilities include an elevated egg-shaped auditorium for classical music, a larger modular concert hall, rehearsal rooms for musicians (Riffx Studios), seminar rooms, a press center, restaurants and an extensive roof garden. Much of the site's daytime energy needs are supplied by a large mobile curved solar panel array that covers the smaller auditorium. From the fourth floor, there is an all-round view of the surroundings.
Seating capacity for the unamplified classical music Auditorium is 1,150, the larger modular concert hall (Grande Seine) at a lower elevation on the island site is able to accommodate audiences of up to 6,000.