La Défense, Paris
A brief visit to the pedestrian plaza and transportation hub of La Défense, the trendy business suburb of Paris.
La Défense is a planned community in which cars, trains, and buses have been banished to underground tunnels and terminals, leaving the open street level to pedestrians. The area got off to a slow start decades ago, but has grown in prestige and popularity and is now one of the most expensive business districts in Europe. It's a nice place to work, especially at lunchtime, when everyone comes out onto the plaza! At night, though, it's deserted.
This video shows the plaza and some of its best known buildings, including the CNIT, Grande Arche, etc. It also takes a look at the vast underground transportation complex beneath the plaza (7:30).
LA DEFENSE - GRANDE ARCHE , PARIS 2019 4K
La Defense is a major business district in Paris with Grande Arche de la Defense building in center.
A Walk Around La Défense, Paris
La Défense is a major business district located three kilometres west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre and Puteaux.
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 1,400 acres of area, 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 19 are completed skyscrapers), 180,000 daily workers, and 38,000,000 sq ft of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade (le Parvis), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and 24 movie theaters.
The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 6.2 mi Axe historique (historical axis) of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine department communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year[1] and houses an open-air museum.
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Le quartier d'affaires de Paris La Défense vu du ciel. The business district of Paris La Défense seen from the sky. 2018
LA DÉFENSE - Paris, France
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PARIS WALK | La Défense Promenade from Bassin Takis to Grande Arche | France
A first-person perspective Paris walk tour of Paris La Défense from Bassin Takis to Grande Arche de la Defense.
See all the sights as Watched Walker (yes, I’m talking about myself in the third person) takes us on a walking tour through the streets of Paris, featuring La Défense. The tour begins by Bassin Takis (right above Esplanade de La Défense metro station) and continues along the pedestrianised promenade to Grande Arche de la Defense, where the tour concludes.
Please note, construction work was taking place close to Grande Arche, therefore, drilling and other loud noises can be heard.
Sights seen along the tour include Bassin Takis, ‘Le Moretti’ sculpture by Raymond Moretti, statue of ‘La Défense de Paris’ by Louis-Ernest Barrias, 'Araignée Rouge’ (Red Spider) sculpture by Alexander Calder, Les Quatre Temps and Cnit La Defense shopping centres, various architecture including skyscrapers, and Grande Arche de la Defense (Great Arch of Defense).
And in each video I've hidden a blinking eye, can you spot it? (It could appear more than once). In addition to the blinking eye, I've also added the Watched Walker logo to various scenes–it could be on buildings, vehicles or any other objects, so keep an eye out for it too!
Footage recorded August 2017.
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Walking in LA DEFENSE, Paris France
Walking in LA DEFENSE, Paris France
To The Top of Le Grande Arche, La Defense, Paris
La Grande Arche de la Défense, The Great Arc of the Defense; also La Grande Arche de la Fraternité) is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche. A 360 ft cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 2 1⁄2 miles.
A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941-2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than military victories. The construction of the monument began in 1985. Spreckelsen resigned in July 1986 and ratified the transfer of all his architectural responsibilities to his associate, French architect Paul Andreu. Reitzel continued his work until the monument was completed in 1989.
The Arche is in the approximate shape of a cube with a width, height and depth of 360 ft; it has been suggested that the structure looks like a hypercube (a tesseract) projected onto the three-dimensional world. It has a prestressed concrete frame covered with glass and Carrara marble from Italy and was built by the French civil engineering company Bouygues.
La Grande Arche was inaugurated in July 1989, with grand military parades that marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution. It completed the line of monuments that forms the Axe historique running through Paris. The Arche is turned at an angle of 6.33° about the vertical axis. The most important reason for this turn was technical: with a métro station, an RER station, and a motorway all situated directly underneath the Arche, the angle was the only way to accommodate the structure's giant foundations. In addition, from an architectural point of view, the turn emphasizes the depth of the monument and is similar to the turn of the Louvre at the other end of the Axe historique.
In addition, the Arche is placed so that it forms a secondary axis with the two of the highest buildings in Paris at the time, the Tour Eiffel and the Tour Montparnasse.
The two sides of the Arche house government offices. The roof section was closed in 2010 following an accident without injury and opened again to the public in 2017 after seven years of renovation works. It features panoramic views of Paris and includes a restaurant and an exhibition area dedicated to photojournalism
Paris, France: La Défense
More info about travel to Paris: La Défense in Paris, France, is a forest of skyscrapers nicknamed Paris’s “petit Manhattan.” La Grande Arche, inaugurated in 1989 on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, is the centerpiece of this ambitious complex.
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A Walk Around Gare La Défense, Paris
La Défense is a station of the Transilien (Réseau Saint-Lazare) suburban rail lines, RER, Paris Métro and tram. It is located underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station serves as the western terminus of Paris Métro Line 1 and connects the RER Line A to the Metro Line 1 station La Défense–Grande Arche since 1992, the T2 tramway since 1994 and SNCF (Transilien) train station. It is also attached to a major shopping centre. There are 25.62 million entries and exits each year.
Highlights on the surface nearby include the monumental Grande Arche, skyscrapers that host the headquarters of important French and foreign companies, and works of urban art such as Le Pouce by César Baldaccini. From the central esplanade the Arc de Triomphe can be seen further down the Axe historique.
Until May 2004, this part of La Défense hosted an information centre of the European Union managed by the European Parliament.
Like the district it serves, the station takes its name from the 19th century statue La Défense de Paris, commemorating the Franco-Prussian War.
La Défense District : The Modern Skyline of Paris (From Above)
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La Défense, Paris
La Défense is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. With a population of 20,000,[1] it is centered in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux. The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris's 10 km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense.
Around its 110-metre (360 ft)-high Grande Arche and esplanade (le Parvis), the district holds many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. With its 77.5 acres (314,000 m2), its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 180,000 daily workers and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district.
Aerial footage by night - The business district of Paris La Defense
The business district of Paris La Défense by night, the western part of the business district with the area Arche Nord and Arche Sud, the esplanade / Aerial footage © Production Air-images Camera Arri Alexa 4K Super 35 50fps - 02-2019
Lunch Time on the Steps of Le Grande Arche, La Defense, Paris
La Grande Arche de la Défense, The Great Arc of the Defense; also La Grande Arche de la Fraternité) is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche. A 360 ft cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 2 1⁄2 miles.
La Défense (Paris) | Explore France
La Défense is the modern high-rise and office-tower district of Paris, located beyond the arrondissements of central Paris at the start of the western outskirts of the city, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine. La Défense is the site of the Grande Arche, one of Paris' most modern and imposing landmarks, situated at the western end of the grand axis formed by the Champs-Elysées, the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe.
La Défense is a purpose-built business district; in the 1960s, Charles de Gaulle led an effort to level the area and concentrate skyscrapers in a single business district, rather than altering the character of downtown Paris with large commercial buildings.
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Paris 4K - Skyscraper District Drive - La Defense
Friday afternoon drive around the Paris district home to many of the city's tallest high-rises. La Défense in Paris is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 72 glass and steel buildings, 180,000 daily workers, and 38,000,000 sq ft of office space. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year. Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and 24 movie theaters.
La Défense is a major business district and is three kilometres west of Paris. It is part of the Paris Metropolitan Area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department Hauts-de-Seine spread across the communes of Courbevoie, Nanterre, and Puteaux.
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares (1,400 acres) of area, 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 19 are completed skyscrapers), 180,000 daily workers, and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade (le Parvis), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises.
The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) Historical Axis of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Courbevoie, Nanterre, and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year and houses an open-air museum.
Important corporations headquartered at La Défense include Neuf Cegetel, Société Générale, Total, Aventis, Areva, and Arcelor. The tallest skyscraper, the Tour First belongs to AXA, constructed in 1974. It is 231 metres (758 ft) high, has 50 floors, and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area (a title previously held by the Tour Montparnasse, which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011, bringing it to its current height from a previous 159 metres (522 ft); the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower).
La Défense - The Modern Business District of Paris
La Défense stands out as a modern business district with skyscrapers and office buildings...in contrast with the classical and artistic Paris that tourists love. It is situated in the western part of the city center of Paris at 10 kilometers away and can be reached via the RER A or Metro Line 1 subway trains.
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À Paris, nombreux sont les axes mythiques. Mais le plus célèbre d’entre eux est sans doute celui qui relie le Louvre au quartier de La Défense. Promenade prisée des touristes, il traverse le jardin des Tuileries, la célèbre place de la Concorde, et s’engage sur les Champs-Élysées. En haut des Champs, l’Arc de Triomphe offre un point de vue hors du commun sur Paris. Mais la Défense, plus grand quartier d’affaires d’Europe, renferme aussi quelques secrets qui attirent de plus en plus de curieux.
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A Walk Around Le Parvis, La Defense, Paris
In the center of all the tall buildings and tower of La Defense in Paris lies a warm inviting recreational area for the workers and residents of the La Defense complex. This is a walk around this area at around the lunch hour.
Découvrir Paris : La Défense
Après le XIIIe arrondissement de Paris, je vous amène dans le plus grand quartier d'affaire d'Europe où les gratte-ciel pousse chaque année et de plus en plus haut. Une ambiance vraiment unique !