Above: Perspective view of Le Corbusier's Palais des Congrès with level four exposed, superimposed with an elevational detail of OMA's Library for Jussieu.

From the very first time I saw OMA's Library for Jussieu, I immediately recognized its debt to Le Corbusier's Palais des Congrès, an unexecuted design for the United European Parliament in Strasbourg.

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