What happens when an architect is inspired by both the pyramids of Mesoamerica and the modernity of Oscar Niemeyer... and said architect has been tasked to create a master plan for a utopic seaside resort" You get La Grande-Motte, a commune in Southern France. Below, photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego share a selection of images from their pilgrimage to this unique site.

© Stefano Perego

What happens when an architect is inspired by both the pyramids of Mesoamerica and the modernity of Oscar Niemeyer... and said architect has been tasked to create a master plan for a utopic seaside resort" You get La Grande-Motte, a commune in Southern France. Below, photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego share a selection of images from their pilgrimage to this unique site.
© Roberto Conte

© Stefano Perego

Statement from photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. La Grande-Motte is a popular seaside resort located in Southern France, in the arrondissement of Montpellier. But it's not at all a usual seaside resort.

© Stefano Perego

The whole area was designed and built between 1960 and 1975 by one single architect, Jean Balladur. He was a visionary man, that?with the exception of the works by a few artists involved by the author?basically designed every single detail of La Grande-Motte over 400 hectares: from the buildings (big and small) to the width of the roads, the vegetation, the hei...