Will they be able to meet the deadlines? In 1900 when 1,500 workers are still working hard to build the edifice, the suspense is nerve-wracking. Work begins on the Grand Palais, with just three years to complete this mammoth construction project. The rear section, the current Palais de la Decouverte, goes to Albert Thomas.īut, like the Three Musketeers, there are actually four men involved in building the Grand Palais, since Charles Girault is tasked with coordinating the entire project, as well as building the Petit Palais. The middle section (including the Salon d’Honneur) goes to Albert Louvet The main part of the Grand Palais (looking onto what is now Avenue Winston-Churchill) is assigned to the architect Henri Deglane No design stands out from the rest, so the decision is taken that is should be a collaboration, inspired by several projects: A couple of candidates propose building two palaces for fine arts along the new avenue, the Grand and Petit Palais which now face each other. Now the architectural competition can begin. What can we do to make the Universal Exhibition of 1900 a memorable one? A competition is launched to gather ideas and one project emerges from all the submitted plans (each one crazier than the next): to cut through a new avenue to link the Champs-Élysées with the Esplanade des Invalides (now Avenue Winston-Churchill) and build a bridge over the Seine (now Pont Alexandre III). Today the Grand Palais is over 100 years old, and take it from us, plenty of things have happened in a century! Spend some time tracing the life of the monument through the 20th century in the timeline below: 6,000 tonnes of steel in the construction of the Nave: it has more steel than the whole Eiffel Tower,Īnd used 60 tonnes of “mignonette” green paint 13,500 m 2 floor area in the Nave, with the largest glass roof in Europe Find out all about it by following us on this voyage of discovery! Built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900 and dedicated “by the French Republic to the glory of French art”, it was designated as a historic monument in 2000. Located in the heart of Paris on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais is the iconic monument of the Rmn-GP.
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