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La Defense
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district isn’t in Paris proper but far to the west, beyond the rich
bourgeois neighborhood in Neuilly, in what was Paris’
light-industrial belt. What makes it unique is the fact that the
whole concrete slab on which this mini city is built is a car-free
zone; roads, parking and subway links are all underground. The main
axis of La Défense lines up with the Pyramid in the Louvre, the
Obelisk at Concorde, and the Arc de Triomphe at Etoile. The Grande
Arche was built at La Defense’s western end.
With buildings such as the CNIT and the Grande Arche, the
architecture of La Défense is definitely futuristic. Over 1,000
major blue chip companies have chosen to set up their head offices
here. La Défense also houses one of the largest shopping centers in
Europe, the Quatre Temps with over 250 shops. The promenade on the
square exhibits contemporary sculptures by famous artists such as
Miro, Takis and Calder (see his two-story red-steel spider, ‘Grand
stabile rouge’). There is also Raymond Moretti’s ‘Cheminée
d'aération’, a 30 m parking chimney with coloured glass fibre and
Bernar Venet’s ‘Double Ligne Indéterminée’, or Two Indeterminate
Lines (1988).
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