IT IS ONE OF ABOUT 700 PANELS THAT DOT THE CITY, AND LIKE MOST OF THEM SKIPS THE ESSENTIAL
This one is about construction. It says nothing about the abandonment of the project and of Asians finding affordable housing as a result.
The details of building are irrelevant to most readers...
"Building this ensemble between 1968 and 1975 under the direction of the architect Michel Holley was an element of the restauration known as Italie 13. The site was then occupied by the Gobelins warehouse: it was rebuilt underground and covered over with a slab on which were built towers, buildings and boutiques. Underground automobile circulation, sites for walking and equipment on the slab, high-rising habitations, such were the principles of the functionalist urbanization [...].
That audacious modernist architecture became a cosmopolitan site, Asiatics establishing themselves there from 1975."
Rejection of the "audacious modernist architecture" is not mentioned or "Asiatics establishing themselves there" explained.
By listing details of little interest they turn people away from history itself.
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