MENU: 3.1.3. High-rises ahead of their time
REJECTED BY THE FRENCH, THEY CAME TO HARBOR REFUGEES FROM VIET NAM
"The Olympiades," projet approved en 1966, abandoned in 1977.
"The neighborhood needed cleaning up,
but not in the way meant for the trenches of World War I.
One could "renovate" on a human scale,
but we got this delirious and oppressive gigantism..."
-- Léo Malet, 1978,
Preface to the new edition of Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac
(Fog on the Tolbiac Bridge), 1956
A site unique to Paris
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