As part of an international competition, 1982-83, to revitalize the abandoned and undeveloped land from the French national wholesale meat market and slaughterhouse in Paris, France, Bernard Tschumi was chosen from over 470 entries including that of OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel.
Eduardo Souza
Brands and Materials Senior Editor. Architect and Master from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).
AD Classics: Parc de la Villette / Bernard Tschumi Architects
AD Classics: Convent of La Tourette / Le Corbuiser
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Architects: Le Corbuiser
- Year: 1960
AD Classics: Le Grand Louvre / I.M. Pei
In 1981, the newly elected French president, Francois Mitterrand, launched a campaign to renovate cultural institutions throughout France. One of the most advantageous of those projects was the renovation and reorganization of the Louvre.
AD Classics: National Assembly Building of Bangladesh / Louis Kahn
Modernist architecture is traditionally understood to be utilitarian, sleek, and most of all without context, such that it can be placed in any context and still stay true to aesthetic principles and its functional requirements. However, Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Building of Bangladesh in Dhaka is an extraordinary example of modern architecture being transcribed as a part of Bangali vernacular architecture. The National Assembly building, completed in 1982, stands as one of Kahn’s most prominent works, but also as a symbolic monument to the government of Bangladesh.