Paris has many things to offer, and not few of them are best savored at night. One popular option is to take the RER to La Défense, and take a look at La Grande Arche.
This monumental building was designed by Johann Otto von Spreckelsen and Erik Reitzel, and is one of several Grands Projets by France’s former president François Mitterrand.
Its shape is inspired by a common projection of the hypercube into Euclidean space.
Like every good piece of art, it is worth looking at from different angles.
I took these pictures in the summer of 1991, just before a backpacking trip to the French Alps.
The platform under the Grande Arche is typically so bright and the area behind so dark that
the casual visitor will not notice what the long time exposure reveals.
The Inner Frame 