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Monuments
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A great architectural competition was organised in Paris
in 1983 in order to build a new opera house in the neighbourhood of “la
Bastille”. Carlos Ott was chosen amongst 750 applicants. This project
led by the President Francois Mitterand caused a severe polemic. Despite
a geometrical shape and outside walls made of glass and charcoal grey
marble, the architect could preserve the general aspect of the bloc. The
auditorium contains 2 700 places and has a social aim: it was built in
the Eastern part of town which is far away from the rich parts of Paris.
The inauguration was symbolic as well, as the Opera Bastille opened on
the 14th of July, 1989.
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