TEC4628109: Bercy Village, Paris 12th arrondissement. Installed on part of Bercy's old warehouses, which declined until the sixties. This new commercial urbanism wanted to keep some traces of the old wine and spirits trading center. Shops have opened in old cellars and traces of railway tracks carrying wine have been preserved. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604228: The Bourse de Commerce in Paris opened its doors for the world exhibition of 1889. It was conceived and transformed by Henri Blondel from the old wheat market, in response to his new vocation as a trading stock exchange, anthem to industrial society, to the benefits of trade and to the transport revolution. From the previous building, Blondel retained only the two jewels that had ensured its reputation: the inner ring, built by Nicolas Le Camus de Meziere in 1763, and the frame of the metal dome added by Belanger in 1813, which bears witness to the emerging art of steel. Caslee au Creusot, it is a technical feat: fifty-one farms and fourteen circular belts respond to the number of full and voids of the facade to ensure the harmony and the striking light of the whole. / Bridgeman Images