Luxor Obelisk
Place de la Concorde
One of the pair that stood before the temple of Luxor. Egypt gave it to France; it took two years to bring it down the Nile and up the Seine.
- Height
- 22.8 m
- Weight
- ≈ 230 t
- Age
- ≈ 3,300 yrs
Paris.
The Champs-Élysées. Rebuilt to the metre.
I
48.8695° N · 2.3083° E
From the Concorde to the Arc
One straight line of 1.9 kilometres: the Place de la Concorde, the gardens, the Rond-Point, the avenue, and at its top the Arc de Triomphe.
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II
L’Étoile
Twelve avenues meet at the star. At its centre, 50 metres of stone and the four groups: the Departure of 1792, the Triumph of 1810, the Resistance of 1814, the Peace of 1815.
- Height
- 50 m
- Width
- 45 m
- Built
- 1806–1836
Pieces of the city, as the world draws them
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- 01Luxor Obelisk
- 02Fontaine des Fleuves
- 03Arc de Triomphe
- 04The avenue lantern
Fontaine des Fleuves
Jacques Ignace Hittorff, 1840
The river fountain of the Concorde, north of the obelisk: figures of the Rhine and the Rhône, the harvests and the vines. Its twin, the Fontaine des Mers, answers it from the south.
- Architect
- Hittorff
- Finished
- 1840
- Basins
- 2
Arc de Triomphe
Place Charles-de-Gaulle · l’Étoile
Ordered by Napoleon in 1806, finished in 1836. Its four sculpture groups face the avenue and the Étoile; beneath it lies the Unknown Soldier, with the flame rekindled every evening.
- Height
- 50 m
- Width
- 45 m
- Built
- 1806–1836
The avenue lantern
Avenue des Champs-Élysées
The cast-iron lantern of the avenue, modelled piece by piece. 357 of them light our Champs-Élysées at night.
- On our avenue
- 357
- Material
- Cast iron
- Light
- Dusk to dawn
Champs-Élysées
1.9 km. 70 m wide. 105 shops. One avenue.
III
The avenue
Seventy metres from façade to façade: the carriageway, the plane trees and the lanterns, the pavements in front of the shops.
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The names on the avenue are the real ones
Shop by shop, as OpenStreetMap lists the Champs-Élysées today.
Louis Vuitton · Dior · Cartier · Ladurée · Le Fouquet’s · Tiffany & Co. · Bulgari · Rolex · Montblanc · Omega · Moncler · Hugo Boss · Lacoste · Sephora · Apple ·
Panerai · IWC Schaffhausen · TAG Heuer · Dinh Van · Furla · Canada Goose · Calvin Klein · The Kooples · Pandora · Swatch · Levi’s · Éric Bompard · Yves Rocher · Monoprix · Montblanc ·
IV
The windows
At dusk the shop fronts of the avenue light up, each under the name it carries in Paris today.
V
META PULS HOF
Beside the stadium, the district’s shopping hall: three floors of galleries around a garden, boutiques furnished to the last shelf, a roof lounge over the park.
Boutiques
Furnished to the last shelf: the oak blocks, the lit walls, the pieces on display.
VI
META PULS Arena · Parc des Princes
The arena at the Parc des Princes, where Paris has played football since 1897 and in today’s stadium since 1972. A full house, the match on the pitch, your seat in the bowl.
A seat for every ticket
The full house, the match on the pitch: every seat can be sat in, every ticket takes you to yours.
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VII
ASTRA CINEMA
On the roof of the HOF: ASTRA CINEMA under the evening sky and ASTRA LIVE, the concert hall with its LED wall. Buy a ticket and the seat is yours.
ASTRA LIVE
The concert hall on the roof: the curved rows, the stage, the light.
VIII
Golden hour
The sun goes down at the end of the axis, through the Arc. The sky is a physical atmosphere, the light is the sun’s own.
La nuit
Then the lanterns, the shop windows and the floodlit Arc. The same avenue, open all night.
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0trees, each where it grows
0street lamps
0shops under their real names
0monuments and statues
0bridges over the Seine
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