Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Portzamparc is in town - Paris Design Artist

Christian Portzamparc is the only french person to have ever received the Pritzker Architecture Prize (could be compare to a Nobel Prize for architecture), in 1994.

The Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, close to Trocadéro, welcomes an exposition about this amazing artist.
Few of his work:LVMH Tower in NYC, french embassy in Berlin, in 2004, the city of New York ordered from the artist its new Opera, a 65 000 m² building for the Opera and its residential appartments.

Cité de la Musique, Parc de La Villette, Paris
Apartment building, Fukuoka Japan

"Portzamparc - Rêver la ville",
from March 21st to September 16th
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
1, place du Trocadéro
75116 Paris
Prices : de 3 à 8 €
Info : 01 58 51 52 00
Official website : www.citechaillot.fr

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