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A winter industry built by policy from 1964, and the buildings and institutions it left behind.
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Plan Neige, 1964: The State Builds a Winter Industry
A government policy document translated into concrete and steel: how France's 1964 Plan Neige turned alpine altitude into a deliberately engineered economic asset.
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Chamonix 1924: What the Games Actually Built
The first Winter Olympics left a specific inventory.
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Charlotte Perriand Made the Furniture Fit the Mountain
At Les Arcs from 1967, Perriand did not import modernism to altitude — she remade it for a specific set of constraints.
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Albertville 1992: Read the Ledger
The 1992 Winter Olympics as an infrastructure event — what was promised, what was built, what the Tarentaise received and what it did not.
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The Water Behind the Snowgun
Artificial snow production in the Savoyard resorts — how much water a snowgun moves per hour, where that water comes from and at what altitude the intake sits.
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ESF, 1945: The Red Jacket Becomes Uniform
A single founding year, a single jacket colour, and a training structure that standardised ski instruction across every French resort.