La Grande Arche
The Grand Arch was built in 1985 and was completed in 1989. The reason it was built was because the French President François Mitterrand had started a national design competition. So Johan Otto von Spreckelsen had sent in this design which was supposed to be a 20th century version on the Triumphant Arc. He had won the competiton along with his partner and they started building right away. The architect of this structure was Johan Otto von Spreckelsen and the ruler who commissioned it was President François Mitterrand. The building itself is 110 meters tall. Some unusual features about this building is that it is an office building but the way it's shaped is just odd. Its shaped like a hollow square and does not look like any office building I have seen before.
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