After a vote

But the main innovation of the model, it is of course the doors ... FlexDoors called antagonists. Unlike half-back doors of the Mazda RX8 or the Mini Clubman, the opening of the Meriva are of normal size, can open independently of front doors and are based on an amount held centrally on behalf of a side impact. Indisputably, the articulation by the rear improves access to the seat. As a sliding door but without the constraints of style.

Indeed, the opening angle is generous (84 ° 67 ° cons as standard) and can enter from under the peak of the arch formed by the flag. It is much easier to surround a child's booster seat or install a baby in his seat. If the "suicide doors" are allowed again, thanks to their locks completely safe and because their blocking is placed under the supervision of an electronic system acting as the speed reached 4 km / h.

Ultimately, the only flaw of the concept is to increase the mass of the car, which goes against the grain of an era that puts engineers faced with the need to design lightweight.

Faced with the Prophet, winning the last Cannes Film Festival and nominated for acne the Oscars, March 7 this year, and at the origin, Giannoli, which applies to Francois Cluzet nominated for the César for Best Actor, The Concert, darling the public is as outsider 35th Caesars of the French cinema, which prizes will be awarded tonight.

After a vote that has lasted all week, Internet users have figaro.fr voted best film with 52.15% (1 864 votes), confirming a clear preference for a humanistic work speaks to the heart.

Ditto for Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood was elected to 57.03% (3 328 votes) Best Foreign Film faced with a big Hollywood production like Avatar, James Cameron's, or auteur films to social context, White Ribbon, Michael Haneke or Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle.

Paris to Le Havre

Philharmonic and Auchan "cultural"

In terms of symbolic architectural sights of the Grand Paris, the President causes. It brings together the Philharmonie de Paris, under construction in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris and a project group Auchan "commercial, cultural, sports and recreation. The large auditorium Symphony, which he takes "a lot", scheduled to open in 2012. When the Auchan complex which "will surprise" the head of state he hopes will come "in a neighborhood under-equipped North-east of Paris, between Paris and Roissy. This is "the prototype of a new commercial zoning with a human face." He also resumed his account for acne an idea of the architect Frank Gehry to "relook the Montparnasse tower, into a symbol of unbridled creativity of the new Paris."

See top and erase the device

Despite the debate between elected officials in Paris in recent months, Nicolas Sarkozy is clear: we must "confront the taboo without question the density and height of buildings. "Whenever possible and relevant," he said, should add stories to buildings, build new towers, or even just pick up the houses to each other. "The urgency is to" stop drift pavilion which blights our countryside. " Sarkozy also wants to remove the borders of Paris "by skipping over the more possible that the wall is the ring. Paris is now "a heart cut of its members," he said, "threatened infarction.

Paris, to Le Havre

The head of state has been seduced by the proposition "most radical" among those of architects, which extends the capital "to Le Havre. "This is not to build an urban area continues to the beach, which would be" absurd ", but he said," is a development priority highly relevant.

Grand Paris

favorable opinion of the Court's constitutional referendum will not solve everything for Alvaro Uribe. Arises because a scheduling problem. The limit of nominations for the election on 30 May is 12 March. Unable to hold a referendum before then. Will he defer the election? "It would be a coup," said Gustavo Petro this week, the leader of Polo.

Nicolas Sarkozy revived the offensive on his favorite site of Greater Paris. In the bimonthly journal Architecture Today the reference architecture, the head of state back on its project, largely focused in his campaign by the UMP leader in Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse. In this conversation a dozen pages, Nicolas Sarkozy was careful not to enter the political debate to keep the height of view. It seeks to reconcile both the project architects as those of politicians of all parties. The spirit of the text is that of his speech in April at the Palais de Chaillot, which had attracted the unanimity in the political and artistic. "We need identity, he said, it needs security, but also thirsty for surprises, discoveries, encounters, surprises."

L'Atelier du Grand Paris

The workshop sought long to allow architects to work together and to "propose a policy, a comprehensive urban project" will be launched "early April" by Sarkozy. If it provides "necessarily" the "debate" between the teams and "also" between elected, he hopes that everyone will put "the public interest above the squabbles of powers". This workshop will be "interactive" and will "heavily involve civil society."