FUN PALAIS

摘要

It was the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques - famed for the riverside face-off between the Nazi and Soviet pavilions - that endowed Paris with the elegantly monumental Palais de Tokyo. Occupying a two-hectare riverside site on the then Avenue de Tokyo (renamed Avenue de New York in 1945), it was conceived as a gallery for the modern-art collections of both the French state and the city of Paris, a never-the-twain parentage that led its Beaux-Arts-trained architects - Dondel, Aubert, Viard and Dastugue — to design a twin building.