Palais de Chaillot

The Palais de Chaillot, the Trocadero seen from

The Palais de Chaillot in Paris was built by Louis-Hippolyte Boileau , Léon Azème and Jacques Carlu for the 1937 World's Fair on the foundations of the former Palais du Trocadéro .

architecture

View from the Eiffel Tower to the Palais de Chaillot

The Palais de Chaillot was built in the neoclassical style on the eastern slope of the Hauteurs de Chaillot (Eng .: hills of Chaillot) facing the Seine and comprises, given by the foundations of the side wings of the previous building, two long wings curved in a quarter segment with a central extension, which continue on both sides in monumental pavilions.

Between the two main pavilions, which are designed as corner projections , there is an open space in the middle, which, as a homage to the Palais du Trocadéro , which once stood there , corresponds to the cubature of its main central section, the concert hall. When it was rebuilt in 1937, an enclosed part of the building was deliberately omitted because the open space that was created, which is open to the public at all times, opens up the - now most famous - view of the Eiffel Tower . It also allows a passage to the spacious terraces of the Jardins du Trocadéro , crossing these you can comfortably walk over the Pont d'Iéna to the Eiffel Tower.

location

It can be reached via the Trocadéro metro station (Métrolinie 6 Nation <> Charles de Gaulle / Étoile, Métrolinie 9 Pont de Sèvres <> Mairie de Montreuil).

use

The Palais de Chaillot now houses four institutions:

• the Théâtre national de Chaillot
• the Ethnographic Museum ( Musée de l'Homme )
• the Naval Museum ( Musée national de la Marine )
• the Center for French Architecture Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine , rebuilt in 2007 by Jean-François Bodin and Hamid Boughaba , consisting of

• the Musée des Monuments français
• the Institut français d'architecture
• the École de Chaillot , the state school of architecture

Until 2005, the Museum of Photo and Film ( Musée du Cinéma ) was also housed in the Palais de Chaillot.

Movie

The Palais de Chaillot served the films Sicko (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Rush Hour 3 (2007), Faire-part: Musée Henri Langlois (1997), French Kiss (1995) and They kissed and they hit him ( 1959) and Herbie goes to Monte Carlo (1977) as a film set.

See also

• Place du Trocadéro et du 11 November

Web links

Commons : Trocadéro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Palais de Chaillot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine , official website
• Pictures from the Palais de Chaillot
• “All art under one roof” , Tagesspiegel , October 14, 2007.
• The Palais de Chaillot as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
• Benedikt Hotze: Très Grand Architecture Center. Prestige project “Cité de l'Architecture” in Paris is inaugurated. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008 ; Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ imdb.com

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '44.3 "  N , 2 ° 17' 17.4"  E