Kun for mennesker! - et program om Johan Otto von Spreckelsen Filming Locations
Kun for mennesker! - et program om Johan Otto von Spreckelsen Filming Locations
La Défense is the major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, 3 kilometres west of the city limits. It is located in Île-de-France region's department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.
Kun for mennesker! - et program om Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1989)
It is a Dane who designed Paris' new trademark. In 1983, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen won the competition for the completion of the La Défense district west of Paris. It became an enormous marble-clad cube which Spreckelsen called the "Triumph of Mankind", and which the French today call "The Great Arch". Spreckelsen died in 1987 when the cube was only half built. The program does not include previously published recordings with him. He talks about his project, about joys and sorrows in connection with his work in Paris, about his meetings with Mitterrand and about his Danish buildings. Viewers will meet an architect who is both clever and very willing.
