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Former Paris meat market turned eyesore to get new life with ambitious urban project

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20041215
Author:INGRID ROUSSEAU, Associated Press Writer

INGRID ROUSSEAU, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-15-2004
Dateline: PARIS
Les Halles, a crowded commercial neighborhood in the heart of Paris immortalized in an 1874 Emile Zola novel but now shunned as an urban eyesore, is being given a new life with an ambitious project to turn it into a user-friendly "work of art."

French architect David Mangin was given the job Wednesday of helping put a new face on the run-down quarter. He beat out four competitors vying for the project.

Mangin's project, called "A Roof in a Garden," features a "spacious and luminous" hub of public transport with a ...

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