Suddenly, we are far from the urban, minimalist, crazy and cold future imagined by Jacques Tati in
Playtime
(1967).
A fierce perfectionist, the filmmaker had a modern city, “Tativille”, reconstructed on a vacant lot near the Studios of Joinville-le-Pont: around a hundred building workers, 1,200 m2 of windows, 3,500 m2 of plastic coverings, 3,000 m3 of wood and 45,000 m3 of concrete!
In September 1958, the Public Establishment for the Development of Defense (Epad) was created by the State to build, manage and animate the district of the future.
La Défense is emerging at the gates of Paris.
The Center for New Industries and Technologies (Cnit), by architects Robert Camelot, Jean de Mailly and Bernard Zehrfuss, was inaugurated in 1958 by General de Gaulle on the occasion of the “Les Floralies” exhibition.
The towers in this foreground, said to be of the first generation, are all of the same size: a base of 42 m by 24 m, a height of 100 m and a surface area of 30,000 m2.
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