Jean Nouvel: reflections

Five years after the war

Dafa metti (Difficult)

Paris’s business district boasts imposing art. But who is it for?

Located west of Paris, La Défense is often called the most beautiful business district in Europe. With nearly 70 monumental works of art erected alongside its skyscrapers, the busy, opulent neighbourhood doubles as an open-air museum. In The Great Arc, the French animator Camille Authouart takes the audience on ‘a poetic and social stroll’ around La Défense, with her beautifully textured pastel animations of the district........

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