Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Forum des Halles
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Preferred Title:
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Forum des Halles
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Image View:
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Les Halles, view of the main entry from Square des Innocents
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Creator:
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Claude Vasconi (French architect, born 1940)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Date:
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1977-1979 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Modernist, Modern
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Work Type 1:
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shopping mall
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Work Type 2:
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mixed-use development
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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glass; steel
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; City planning; urban renewal
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Description:
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With engineers Jean Willerval and Jean Prouve. Les Halles was the large central wholesale marketplace, which was demolished in 1971, to be replaced with an underground modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles. It is notable in that the open air center area is below street level, like a pit and contains sculpture, fountains, and mosaics. Beneath this lies the underground station Châtelet-Les-Halles, central hub of Paris's express urban rail system, the RER. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-P-FH-A2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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