La Défense Esplanade — EDF Tower and Paris Skyline

4 October 2017 · Paris

The La Défense esplanade on an overcast afternoon, the EDF tower's curved curtain wall rising above the plaza crowd and the Les 4 Temps facade to its right. Dramatic cloud cover sits low across the skyline, pressing down on the mix of glass, concrete, and active construction that defines this district. Paris's business quarter is always mid-sentence — something finished, something going up, pedestrians moving through a space built at a scale that dwarfs them. The composition holds that tension between permanence and work-in-progress.