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How to intervene in the robust chaos of the Paris business centre La Défense... to build next to the "Tour sans Fin” - Europe’s eventual seventh wonder. It is impossible, by definition to compete with this tower by Jean Nouvel. The potential contrast is between the sublime and the banal.
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