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TEC4736837: Les Folies du Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983.Photographed., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737043: La Geode in the Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Adrien Fainsilber, 1986. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983. In the foreground, the Geode, a cinema room enrobee in a spherical volume, coated with more than 6433 stainless steel plates, made by Adrien Fainsilber., Fainsilber, Adrien (b.1932) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737068: Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983. In the foreground, the Maison de la Villette, a place of welcome and information, settles in the former veterinarian rotunda built in 1867., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737089: Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737115: La Geode in the Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Adrien Fainsilber, 1986. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983. In the foreground, the Geode, a cinema room enrobee in a spherical volume, coated with more than 6433 stainless steel plates, made by Adrien Fainsilber in 1986., Fainsilber, Adrien (b.1932) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737289: Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983. One can see the sculpture “” Bicycle buried”” made by Coosje Van Bruggen (1942-2009) and Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) in 1990., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737361: Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture by Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737392: Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Fountain designed by Philippe Starck. Architecture by Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737442: The Parc de la Villette, Paris 75019. Architecture of 1991 - Bernard Tschumi, 1987-1991. This 55-hectare park, divided in two by the Ourcq Canal, is located on the site of the Villette slaughterhouses. The design of the park was entrusted to Bernard Tschumi in 1983. In the foreground, such as playful constructions that dotted the parks and royal gardens of the 18th and 19th centuries, the follies of La Villette come to rhythm the park. Of 26, they are all built on the basis of a cube of 10.80m in size and arranged according to a standard frame of 120m x 120m. However, each of them is unique in form and function., Tschumi, Bernard (b. 1944) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4737583: Parc Andre Citroen, Paris 75015 built between 1985 and 1992 by architects and landscapers Patrick Berger associates with Gilles Clement and Jean-Paul Viguier and Jean-Francois Jodry with Alain Provost. The André-Citroen Park, with an area of 13 hectares, is the most important creation of green spaces in Paris since the Second Empire. Today, the complex consists of a central park of about 11 hectares and two peripheral gardens, the Jardin Leblanc, in the south, which houses the Jardin Noir, and the Jardin Saint-Charles, in the north-east, connects to the large park by a walkway above Balard Street, which contains the Jardin Blanc. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4743126: La cinematheque francaise (Musee du Cinema), ex-american center, 51 rue de Bercy, Paris 12. Architecture by Frank Gehry, 1993. On September 28, 2005, the French Cinematheque was set up in Bercy in the former “American Center” built by architect Franck O. Gehry. Starting on Wednesday, September 28th, the institution founded by Henri Langlois offers cinematographic programming in four cinemas, a permanent exhibition “Passion Cinema”, the Bibliotheque du film, pedagogic workshops and meetings and symposiums on cinema. Photography 16/09/05, Gehry, Frank (b.1929) / Bridgeman Images