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Architecture: Paris Opera Hous
Title: Architecture: Paris Opera Hous
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1086 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Architecture: Paris Opera Hous
The Paris Opera building, also known as "Palais Garnier," emerged as part of an ambitious urbanistic redesigning of the city of Paris. In 1858, Napoleon III decided to build a Grand Opera in the new business quarter designed by Baron Haussmann. The previous buildings that functioned as opera or lyric theaters, such as "Le Péletier" Palace and the Académie Royale de Musique--founded in 1669 by Louis XIV, had been either temporary or had been …showed first 75 words of 1086 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1086 total…the colorful style dear to the architect, Charles Garnier, and the accents of luminous, fluid figures surge forth, contrasting with the gold and red tones of the theatre. It is a success in creating paralelism between the dynamics of the building with the role of the opera music and arts in general within its 19th century context, as well as maintaining a clear picture of the internal functions of the building in its external architecture.
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