La Géode and Cité des Sciences, Paris — Autumn Light

4 October 2017 · Paris

La Géode rises behind the Cité des Sciences as a near-perfect chrome sphere, its mirrored surface pulling the sky and surrounding rooftops into a single curved plane. The exposed steel-and-glass curtain wall in the foreground cuts the frame with industrial precision — raw structure against reflective dome, two faces of the same architectural ambition. Street art on the brutalist parapet below adds the one element neither the architects nor the engineers planned for.