Word: carpeaux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view as one enters is the avenue, plunging down the main axis and flanked on either side by raised terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La Danse, a copy of which decorates the facade of the Paris Opera). It finishes in a pair of windowless double-cube towers, containing smaller galleries, set against the glass end wall. Inside the terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture...
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