ABOUT 700 DOT THE CITY
That for Olympiades is about construction. It says nothing about the rejection of high rises and skips the reason why Asians settled there.
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."
The last sentence is true on the surface, but contradicts the rejection of the "audacious modernist architecture" and gives no explanation of "Asiatics establishing themselves there."
The panels could use the past to throw light on the present. But by listing details of little interest they turn people away from history itself.
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and for an exception, here (please scroll down).
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