Another bold project near the periphery of an urban center is Parc La Villette , on a 125-acre site once occupied by the slaughterhouses of Paris. This park was designed by Bernard Tschumi, who explicitly attempted to apply late twentieth-century deconstructionist theory to the planning of an urban land scape. Because the old industrial site contained few elements suitable for a new park, Tschumi was free to rebuild the landscape in the spirit of a twenty-first century park. Despite the site’s location on the urban fringe, the designer conceived of the park as a part of the city. Therefore Tschumi elected to save important structures, including the Museum of Science and Industry and the nineteenth-century Grand Halle, and combine these with new structures, Which do not have the historical associations of the older buildings, but which project late twentieth-century cultural disjunction. Paths, sunken gardens, water features, and broad lawns are the only features that allude to traditional parks;