Renovation of the Grand Palais for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

The Grand Palais in Paris, the landmark glass and steel building on the Champs-Elysees, is being transformed by Chatillon Architectes after it became "a monument that can usually only be observed from a distance." The building will host fencing and taekwondo events at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The Grand Palais was built to host the 1900 Paris World's Fair. It is famous for its huge glass-roofed atrium or nave, which is made of more than 6,000 tons of steel and has served as a gorgeous backdrop for many international exhibitions and exhibitions. Today architects respect and restore the best aspects of the building's past, approach the project with a modern mindset, ensure that the building is ready for the next stage of life, and above all, that it is a functional building for a modern society.

greenhouses began as horticultural techniques that went beyond natural habitats and seasons to grow plants. The first artificially heated greenhouse was built in England's Chelsea Physical Garden in 1681, enabling the country to grow melons and pineapples for the first time.

Since the 17th century, advances in skill and technology have led to a proliferation of greenhouses for public pleasure and empire building. This new type of architecture stemmed from aristocratic luxury, scientific exploration, technological innovation, and the expansion of capitalism into the tropics. From physical gardens where herbs were grown to botanical gardens, specimens collected by the colonists were returned to the city for study, with an eye toward commercial development. The nobles who financed these missions also flaunted their erudition, wealth, and power by cultivating exotic plants.

From the first public winter gardens, which were no longer the preserve of the aristocracy, the artificial environment was meant to be open to what was then called the "masses", and in addition to warm air and a lush botanical garden, it contained a variety of leisure facilities: restaurants, cafes, theatres, galleries, billiard rooms, concert halls, etc.

From the perspective of industrial development and material innovation, artificial climate, automatic temperature ventilation regulation, exquisite cast iron components and various forms of glass materials through steam and other technologies also represent the rapid development of industrial technology and material innovation in Europe in the 19th-20th century.

In the context of the environmental climate crisis from the 1970s to the 1990s, the greenhouse also experienced a utopian vision of a corrective environment in which humans lived in harmony with nature.

Portrait of Hill Square

The chair in front of the Sacred Heart Cathedral or the coffee shop anywhere to have a cup of coffee, sun, or in the small hill square quietly watching these artists paint, for me, is very comfortable and enjoyable.

"Likeness is not the only criterion for judging a painting, the moment you decide to paint, you entrust yourself to the painter." He doesn't paint you, he paints you as he sees you."

Art is free creation. In other words, artistic creation is the affirmation of freedom. The so-called creation is that people use their own life activities to provide new things that have never existed in the world. The value of this thing, first of all depends on its new.

Imitation and repetition (whether imitating nature or imitating traditional techniques of pen and ink) is not an artistic imbecile, but a non-artistic act. Therefore, like is not the only criterion, if the pursuit of the image, and the loss of the artist's artistic expression, then the painter can only be a painter on the Montmartre Highland.

No personality, no characteristics, no new works, also like a monotonous and stereotyped life make people feel dull and depressed. As Gorteyun: Art, as art, is always a free creation.