The Megaprojects That Would Radically Change Paris

Thanks to Simon Texier for taking part. To read his book Paris Contemporain, you can find it here 👉 https://www.parigramme.com/livre-pari Many thanks again to the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine for welcoming us! To discover and visit Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation 👉 https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr A huge thank you as well to the OKB Films team for the amazing production and all the work that went into it 🔥 Their website 👉 https://www.okbfilms.com/ 🧑‍💻 For any business inquiries, please contact me here 👉 [email protected] Additional credits: © F.L.C. / Adagp, Paris, 2026, SpaceShapeScale, Nebula, Urbanopolis, Clemens Gritl, ArchiSimple/Ouideo., INA. 🔔 Subscribe for more megaprojects, engineering feats, and record-breaking infrastructure. 📌 New breakdowns every week on Looking 4. Looking 4 continues here with exclusive content 👇 Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/instalooking4/ Facebook 🧑‍💻 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php TikTok 🎥 https://www.tiktok.com/@looking4_tiktok Discord 👉 https://discord.com/invite/gjuYHa8ySa See you very soon in the next episode. Script 📝 Guillaume Fournier and Théo Dudermel Interview 🎤 Simon Texier and Théo Dudermel Video production and editing 🎬 OKB Films Second editor and archive footage 🎬 Maxime Hellegouarch Mixing and Music 🎵 Alexandre Dudermel 00:00 Paris Could Have Been Radically Different 01:30 The Sun Column VS the Eiffel Tower 06:25 The Demolition of Paris’s Baltard Halls 10:20 Hitler’s Plan to Destroy Paris 15:39 Auguste Perret’s Tower Houses 23:52 Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin © 2026 Looking 4 | All rights reserved.