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Monday, September 15, 2008

La Défense has celebrated its 50 years old

© Jean Nouvel

30000 peoples were all together on September 9th to celebrate La Défense’s 50th anniversary. Music, laser effects, fireworks, have set ablaze the Grande Arche during 30 minutes.

Today, La Défense is just what those who initially conceived it wanted it to become: a business quarter, the prime business quarter in Europe and one of the most attractive in the world.

This economic grandeur is not only the fruit of legislation governing the market and the interest shared by investors. It is the result of a political will backed by the State and relayed by the instrument which it established as far back as 1958: the EPAD, the Public Body for the development of La Défense. Showcase for half a century of architecture, intersection point for all the public transport networks on the near edge of Paris, life-size laboratory for technological innovation applied to the workplace environment, this crucible of energies accumulates and continues to generate the trump cards of its own glowing reputation.

For more information, discover La Défense’s website:

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