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Jean Balladur designed the La Grande Motte commune on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea’s Gulf of Aigues-Mortes. Completed in 1968, it is a homogenous campus of ziggurat style buildings for vacation living. Futuristic and modern for the 60s era, each living unit is given a balcony and the best views possible.
The site emphasizes environmentally friendly greenery and is mostly park, although a large swamp was drained to make this project and local mosquitoes eradicated. And the whole reason the site was developed was to promote tourism, to compete with Spain’s recent boom in the tourist industry. So the emphasis on nature isn’t exactly noble. |
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