| Sumario: | In the end, the HVAC basement was allowed, but the redesigns caused problems in the final days of construction, when it turned out that certain connections were missing and holes had to be drilled through the vaulted floor plates. The result of targeted demolitions in the 1940s, the site was complex: steeply sloping, it measured barely 10,000 square feet for an ambitious 40,000-square-foot program; it included historic housing that had to be incorporated into the project; and it faced a large 1950s covered reservoir whose structure was too fragile to support any extra load. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,048 ARTS & CULTURE LONG FAMED for its perfume, the ancient town of Grasse sits high up in the hills above Cannes, overlooking the French Riviera.
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