Parc de la Villette
Nothing beats a break away from your stressful life in a local park. The park serves as a gathering place for people out and about in the world as well as providing cities with some much needed fresh air.
Note from the Management
Parc de la Villette was the first major landscape design to draw upon deconstructionist philosophy. It was the result of a competition won by Bernard Tschumi.
Tired of the old idea of a ‘park’, Tschumi wished to design ‘the largest discontinuous building in the world’. Jacques Derrida, the philosopher, encouraged him to consider form before function. This anti-modernist approach ‘deconstructed’ the traditional procedure.
Tschumi laid down three geometries: of points, lines and curves. Clashes were encouraged. The points took the form of a collection of steel pavillions, inspired by Russian Constructivist art and painted red. The primary lines are not unlike traditional French avenues. The most dramatic curved feature is the Cinematic Promenade.
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