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It is a Dane who designed Paris' new trademark. In 1983, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen won the competition for the completion of the La Défense district west of Paris. It became an enormous marble-clad cube which Spreckelsen called the "Triumph of Mankind", and which the French today call "The Great Arch". Spreckelsen died in 1987 when the cube was only half built. The program does not include previously published recordings with him. He talks about his project, about joys and sorrows in connection with his work in Paris, about his meetings with Mitterrand and about his Danish buildings. Viewers will meet an architect who is both clever and very willing.