The Émilie Palace is a high-rise residential building in

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Location

It is located at 3

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in the

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district of

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Émilie Palace

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History

It was built with concrete and designed in the

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

architectural style. It is 38.35 metre high, with twelve storeys. The building is mostly residential. However, it is also home to some shops and an art gallery. It was owned by heiress

Hélène Pastor Hélène Pastor (31 March 1937 – 21 May 2014) was a Monegasque businesswoman and heiress. She headed what is seen as Monaco’s ‘second dynasty’, and was the richest woman in the principality. She was assassinated by a gang that included he ...

through her eponymous real estate company.Tom Metcalf
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References

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