I admire and enjoy brash, bold architecture. The work of the Catalan architect, Bofill, was much criticized when the complex in Marne-la-Vallée was first completed.
But I preferred it to the construction shown below... also built as almost a complete circle of poured concrete with a circumference of a kilometre. This is Héliopolis, part of the naturist resort at Cap d'Agde.
I spent many summer vacations there, only occasionally haunted by the architectural reminder of Betham's 'Panopticon'...
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In the final year of my Interior Design degree course, we visited Paris, and I took a trip out to Marne La Vallee with one of my colleagues who was doing her dissertation on Ricardo Bofill. I have to say the buildings look better in fotos than in the flesh.
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