La Défense Esplanade — Construction Crane and Glass Curtain Wall, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

La Défense in mid-construction: a glass curtain wall building rises under a tower crane, its mirrored facade already reflecting the drama of the sky above. The wide esplanade spreads out in the foreground, pedestrians dispersed across the stone plaza at a scale that makes the architecture's ambition legible. Paris's business district has always been a place where the finished and the unfinished sit side by side — here, the crane is the subject as much as the building it serves.