Cité de la Musique

Portzamparc, Christian Urvoy de
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City of Music
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/122072
Date
1989-1995
Description
Close side view of decorative canopy, northeast façade; A group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It consists of an amphitheater; a concert hall that can accommodate an audience of 800-1,000; a museum of music, containing an important collection of classical music instruments dating mainly from the fifteenth- to twentieth-century; and exhibition halls, workshops and archives. Part of François Mitterrand's Grands Projets along with the Parc de la Villette, the Cité de la Musique reinvented La Villette - the former slaughterhouse district. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 11/4/2007)
Type of Work
mixed-use development; museum; concert hall
Subject
architectural exteriors, music, Performing arts, Postmodern
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