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Artist's rendering of the Les Halles Canopée at night. Studiosezz with I. Tiursic and W. Mile
The center of Paris will soon become a construction site again only 40 years after the 19th-century Les Halles market pavilions designed by Victor Baltard were torn down and replaced by an underground shopping mall topped by what look like cheap upside-down mirrored umbrellas. The €760 million master plan by architect David Mangin has been given the official go-ahead by the Paris Prefect and will now enter the “operational phase,” the mayor’s office announced last week. The plan, referred to as “La Canopée,” calls for a reorganization of the RER and Métro transport hub, a new garden and a transparent roof that will cover the shopping center. The work will begin in September and is expected to take four years. Let’s hope they do better this time around. Click here for more images.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:00
LE FLOP OF LE WEB FRANÇAIS
When we announced the inauguration of France’s new multilingual Web site, France.fr,two weeks ago, it had already crashed less than a day after going online. The promotional site for tourists is now being rehabbed and should be available again by the end of August.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:00
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One Minute Paris: Summer scenes at Paris Plage and on the Pont des Arts. Click here to view on larger screen.
Derek Boshier’s “So Ad Men Became Depth Men” (1962).
Paris is an eternally surprising place. Although I have lived here for over 20 years, I still come across places whose existence was completely unknown to me. So it was...
Chef/owner Daniel Rose garnishes dishes at his restaurant Spring, now reopened in the first arrondissement.
It was quite a surprise to hear that Spring had reopened in new premises in the first arrondissement. Not the tale of new premises – that story had been trailed for at ...
The South African artist William Kentridge has made politics his theme ever since the era of apartheid, but those of you who share my general distaste for mixing art and...
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