Parc de la Villette

Parc de la Villette

Master plan and small follies by Bernard Tschumi

An extraordinary collection of museums and gardens where panning, building, exhibition and landscape strategies are pushed to the limit.

The Par de la Villette is a park in Paris at the outer edge of the 19^th arrondissement, bordering Seince-Sainte-Denis. It was designed by Bernard Tschumi. At 25 hectares, these former slaughterhouse grounds constitute the largest park in the city of Paris and its second largest green space (after the Pere Lachaise cemetery.) The park houses public discussed his design proposal with Jacques Derrida (From Wikipedia)