LBY4573913: Tours Coeur Defense in Levallois, Defense (Hauts de Seine). Construction 2001, architect Jean Paul Viguier. Safeguarding proceedings The bankrupt business bank Lehman Brothers 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 10/05/05., Viguier, Jean-Paul (b.1946) / Bridgeman Images
LBY4583611: Chateau de Chambord (Loir et Cher). From 1519 and for more than thirty years, 1800 workers worked in the construction of Chambord. If the shadow of Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, 1452-1519) friend of the king and official architect hovers on the surprising double-revolution staircase, the author of this strange, yet uninhabitable residence is unknown., Boegly, Luc / Bridgeman Images
ITR4585547: Le jardin sur rue du musee Bourdelle, 18 rue Antoine Bourdelle, Paris 75015. Built in 1961 by Henri Gautruche, this museum is dedicated to the work of Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. Extension of the museum by Christian de Portzamparc, 1992. Photography 27/10/10, Portzamparc, de Christian (b.1944) / Bridgeman Images
ITR4585686: Le jardin du musee Bourdelle, 18 rue Antoine Bourdelle, Paris 75015. Built in 1961 by Henri Gautruche, this museum is dedicated to the work of Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. Extension of the museum by Christian de Portzamparc, 1992. Photography 27/10/10, Portzamparc, de Christian (b.1944) / Bridgeman Images