A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge and impossible deadline, two warring political titans and a Canadian architect who has never built anything. What could go wrong? This is the story of Carlos Ott's design for the Opera Bastille.

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Building Bastille: The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille

A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge and impossible deadline, two warring political titans and a Canadian architect who has never built anything. What could go wrong? This is the story of Carlos Ott's design for the Opera Bastille.

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Knowledge Originals, Arts, Biography,

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Storyville
Thu Sep 4, 9:00pm
Fri Sep 5, 12:00am