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Grande Arche
Sign in to saveAlso known as Grande Arche de la Défense, Arche de la Défense, La Grande Arche, Grande Arche de la Defense, Arche de la Defense
monument and building in Paris's La Défense
Key facts
- Type
- office
- Location
- La Défense , Île-de-France , France
- Inaugurated
- 14 July 1989
- Height
- 110 m (360 ft)
- Architects
- Johan Otto von Spreckelsen , Erik Reitzel
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
La Grande Arche de la Défense ( French: [la ɡʁɑ̃d aʁʃ d(ə) la defɑ̃s]; "The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité (French: [fʁatɛʁnite]; "Fraternity"), is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche.
A 110-metre-high (360 ft) cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe, and was one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 4 km (2+1⁄2 miles).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grande Arche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.