“Memorandum La Defense book is a digest on one hand of OMA projects developments from 1970’s to 2010 as well as a critical view on the extraordinary urbanism and island of modernity that constitutes La Defense central business district.”
Memorandum LD
La Defense offers endless possibilities. The richness of its potentials suggests a brighter future. The symbiotic relationship between Paris and the business center is intact today and continues to benefit from one to the other. Moreover, La Defense remains this unique ground of innovation in France where the New and the Sustainable can exist without hindrance.
Today, at the age of 50, it is proving itself to be living up to the hopes and expectations that motivated its creation, a laboratory of urban modernity.
credits
Architects : OMA : Rem Koolhaas and Clément Blanchet - ONE architecture : Matthijs Bouw, Selma Maarouli
Nature of the operation : La Défense an urban study book
Realised in : 2008
team composition
Peter Stec, Sébastien Berthier, Pierre de Brun, Maurizio Mucciola, Caroline Martin, Sandra Bsat, Jories de Baes
Graphisme : Julia Juriga-Lamut
Dominique Boudet
Françoise Fromonot