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Grand visions at Le Grand Pari(s)
July 30, 2009
By Vicky Richardson
The politically motivated proposal by Roland Castro
It is always surprising and a cause for excitement when high-profile politicians turn their discussions to architecture. When the Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë and French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a research competition on the future development of Greater Paris, there was a great surge of anticipation amongst the city’s large community of architects.
Ten multidisciplinary teams headed by architects have been working for nearly a year to develop schemes, which are now on display at the Cité de l’architecture in Paris. The results are hugely diverse, due to the varied membership of each team and the personalities of the lead architects, most of whom collaborated with architecture schools, universities or research laboratories, engineers and even other architects.
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