Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris — Esplanade View

4 October 2017 · Paris

La Grande Arche dominates the esplanade at La Défense, its hollow cube rising above a plaza busy with office workers moving in every direction. The right leg of the arch pushes off-frame deliberately, turning a landmark into a graphic edge rather than a monument posed for the camera. Carraro's design is monumental in dimension but hollow at its core — the void is the point, framing an overcast Paris sky through 110 metres of glass and concrete.