TEC4571480: Place des Victoires, Paris 2nd arrondissement. Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708) designed this square dedicated to Louis XIV (1638-1715), basing all its proportions on those of the king's statue. The revolutionaries destroyed the monument which was replaced in 1822 by the equestrian statue made by Francois Joseph Bosio (1768-1845). / Bridgeman Images
TEC4572146: La Cite universitaire in Paris. The University Cite was built in Paris on the old fortifications demolished in 1923-1924. The first foundation inaugurated in 1925 was the work of Lucien Bechmann (1880-1968), responsible for the overall plan and financed by Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe.Photography 10/03/98. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4572152: La Cite universitaire in Paris. The University Cite was built in Paris on the old fortifications demolished in 1923-1924. The first foundation inaugurated in 1925 was the work of Lucien Bechmann (1880-1968), responsible for the overall plan and financed by Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe.Photography 10/05/98. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4573431: The Coeur Defense Towers in Levallois (Hauts de Seine). Construction 2001, architect Jean Paul Vigier.The Coeur Defense Tower is put under safeguard procedure The bankrupt business bank Lehman Brothers has brought the largest office tower in Europe into its fall. Unibail, who sold it to Lehman last year, could buy it for half a price, according to a rumour. In the Defense business district, the giant Coeur Defense Tower was the epitome years of office real estate. Today it symbolizes its debacle. With 355,000 m2, corresponding to 2 towers 160 metres high connected by lower buildings, Coeur Defense is the building with the largest usable area in Europe behind the Parliament Palace in Bucharest. Unibail-Rodamco, which commissioned this gigantic complex and inaugurated it in 2001, awarded it for €2.1 billion in March 2007 to Lehman Brothers. Photography 10/11/04. / Bridgeman Images