Generation ice (Village Voice, 01/12/2010) 
The great work of the Mitterrand era have incorporated our urban subconscious. Like the Eiffel Tower, their scandal evaporated. The bickering and screaming accompanying their erection are now smiling. Jack Lang will be remembered, in the manner of an "Uncle Jack said," The Battles in the Louvre (Editions RMN). Tolerate their presence does not mean, however we love them. Far from it. If the Louvre is a success, his next Forum des Halles luxury not a sympathetic hearing: museum and mall will begin by the same sadly letter. Remain the three fridges Paris: La Grande Arche, the Opéra, the BNF. If we agree to find the massive, imposing, intimidating, these buildings still call the epithets "icy", "sinister "" Dehumanized. " Cathedrals of glass as a warm kiss of scrap, they are daughters of an aesthetic that survive poorly in its opening. Once the tape off after us the deluge. The major steps of the Opera Bastille? Closed to the public for fifteen years. The foot of the Ark? A mouthful of blizzard. The front of the TGB? A sullen ice. In the windows of these towers, reflected the arrogance of a "pharaonat" costly and haughty, he remains as icebergs.
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