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Article: Another grand arch for Paris. (La Grande Arche de la Defense)
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- May 1, 1990
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Simple shapes mark the designs of some of Paris' colossal new architectural works. Joining the list of Paris landmarks, along with I.M. Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre, is the hollowed cube of La Grande Arche de la Defense. When its glass-walled elevators first rose within their open-air steel shafts last September, visitors gained a new overlook for Paris sight-seeing. Designed by late Danish architect Otto von Spreckelsen, the arch is the signature building of a high-rise business, academic, and residential center started some 25 years ago; it is to Paris what Century City is to Los Angeles--a planned city within a city. With its 30-story cutout, the 35-story arch ...