La Défense Espace Histoire

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    15 place de la Défense, La Défense
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    01 47 74 84 24
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    underground rail: La Défense Grande Arche

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Lonely Planet review

La Défense History Space below the Espace Info-Défense traces the development of La Défense via drawings, architectural plans and enough scale models to make you feel like Gulliver.

Especially interesting are the projects that were never built: the 750m-tall Tour Tourisme TV (1961) designed by the Polak brothers; Hungarian-born artist Nicholas Schöffer's unspeakable Tour Lumière Cybernetique (1965), a 'Cybernetic Light Tower' that, at 324m, would stand at the same height as the Eiffel Tower; and the horrendous Tour sans Fin, a 'Never-Ending Tower' that would be 425m high, but only 39m in diameter. Ouch.