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Tower bashing à la genevoise
The world in Geneva: Local life
L'ambition de l'ONU de "densifier" son Palais des Nations s'est heurtée à des oppositions de la part des autorités locales. Jean-Claude Pallas raconte.
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David Glaser, reporter geneveMonde
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The Swiss architect Le Corbusier submitted two architectural projects for the Palais des N...
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Jacques Carlu had designed a project of a 100 meter high tower. The architect did not find...
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Anton Rosen, a Danish architect, furniture designer, decorative artist and professor at th...
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The Dutch architect Julius Maria Luthmann and Hendrik Wouda had participated to the first...
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In the late 40's, the French architect Jacques Carlu had a dream : erecting a 100 m high t...
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In the late 40's, the French architect Jacques Carlu had a dream : erecting a 100 m high t...
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In the late 40's, the French architect Jacques Carlu had a dream : erecting a 100 m high t...
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By* Jean-Claude Pallas, *former building manager at the Palais des Nations
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