Archinect - News2024-05-04T18:20:36-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/105960688/parisian-grande-arche-to-be-renovated
Parisian Grande Arche to be Renovated Nicholas Korody2014-08-06T20:18:00-04:00>2014-08-06T20:18:44-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vt/vtbv8sqehx383qch.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The government has now promised €200m (£160m) worth of "important renovation work" on the south side of the [Grande Arche de la Défense] to begin in October and last for two years. The Grande Arche was designed by Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, who won an international competition to design a 20th century Arc de Triomphe but who was later forced through illness to transfer responsibility for the construction to French architect Paul Andreu.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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https://archinect.com/news/article/105785403/france-pledges-200m-to-restore-la-d-fense-s-crumbling-cube
France pledges €200m to restore La Défense's crumbling cube Alexander Walter2014-08-04T13:39:00-04:00>2014-08-04T13:43:05-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0c/0ca52c0de31b6206f557b68072d94869?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Sited at the heart of France's main business district at La Défense, the enormous and impressive Grande Arche was always more than a monument to the triumph of humanitarian ideals over military glory. [...]
A quarter of a century on, however, the crumbling state of La Grande Arche de la Défense might be a metaphor for France's struggling economy. [...]
The government has now promised €200m (£160m) worth of "important renovation work" [...] to begin in October and last for two years.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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