Grands Projets - Iconic Architecture from Kings to Presidents

Nuit Blanche 2008 © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont

Musée du Louvre © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont

Duration: 3.5 hours
Transport: Walking
Services: Experienced local architect as guide, meet and greet at a central location, café
Languages: English, French, German
Group size: Max. 20 pax
Price: 490 Euros + 20% VAT
Not included: Consumption at café, transport

Image credits

Image 1: Toits de Paris © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont, Image 2: Nuit Blanche 2008 © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont, Image 3: Musée du Louvre © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont - Architecte : Ieoh Ming Peï, Image 4: La Canopee Paris, Patrick Berger et Jacques Anziutti architectes

Grands Projets – Iconic Architecture from Kings to Presidents

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For centuries, French leaders have created iconic buildings that offered dramatically different visions of what the city is and what it should become. Political power, demolition, and construction have always been inseparable in Paris.

This tour will visit the main Grands Projects built over the last forty years as well as contemporary projects, and place them in the context of ten centuries of political construction to give an understanding of contemporary architecture through the history of Paris.

Start of the tour at the entrance of the métro station Palais Royal, meet and greet with the guide

Louvre Pyramid
The best-known Grand Projet is the plan by I. M. Pei to redesign and expand the Louvre

Poste centrale du Louvre
An example of 19th C industrial architecture currently beeing transformed by Dominique Perrault.

Bourse du Commerce / Collection Pinault
Tadao Ando is converting the former Stock Exchange Building in an art centre.

Coffee break at a characteristic parisian café

La Samaritaine
Sanaa is adding a contemporary extension to the famous department Store

La Canopée
Patrick Berger Jacques Anziutti are remodeling the entrance to les Halles.

Centre Pompidou
This Art Institution by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers transformed the neighborhood into a hip art district.

End of tour at Centre Pompidou

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