La Defense - details and images
Includes three suburbs, Courbevoie, Puteaux, and Nanterre, and is basically composed of skyscrapers, hotels and restaurants, large shopping malls and pedestrian paths, wide, which seems to get lost.
On both sides of the walkway meet beautifully landscaped green spaces and park benches that invite you to sit and breathe the air of science fiction strange that it inspires you all promenade.
Although the purpose of the district is to include as many branches and offices, and to accommodate about 300,000 people who live and work there, the atmosphere is not tense or far from crowded metropolis located below the stigma, but rather breathe La Defense a peaceful and quiet air.
His name is inspired by the monument of the same name, Paris La Defense du erected in memory of the soldiers who fought during the Franco-German war of 1870.
Quarter paper appears in the form of urbanization plans in autumn 1958 and is approved in 1964. The materialization of the whole project takes about 30 years, is done in stages and support data and something changes budgets and new visions of the architects.
Also for the Arch of Defense Defense is a tall building in the form of a hollow cube is a platform for observation. Admission is € 7.5 were included in the price and some exhibits of contemporary artists more or less known. Arch of Defense has been built at the initiative of former French president Mitterrand, who wanted a version worthy of the twentieth century Arc de Triomphe. However Danish design architect Otto van Spreckelsen cube brings more than a triumphal arch. It has 106 meters and the sides are office spaces.
Next spring is the mall "Quatre Temps" which, when it was built was the largest mall in Europe.
Metro:
Grande Arche de la Defense (line 1)
Esplanade de la Defense (line 1)
RER: line A
It is open between 9:00 and 20:00 (until 19:00 during winter).
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