After the museums, we dropped by the Effel Tower, took a few pictures. Then we found our way to Dominique Perrault's National Library. It was an interesting complex, with tons of criticism about having the building sunken in a courtyard beside the Seine, ignoring the risk of flooding. We entered the complex and walked in the public area for a while. We continued our way along the river until we hit the recently completed bridge project and design school, which we had seen in magazines before. Just before dusk fell upon, we made our way to visit Jean Nouvel's masterpiece, the Arab World Institute. By the time we arrived it was already closed. We could only walked around the building and take pictures of the exterior.
After we exhausted ourselves with museums and buildings, we headed to the nearby 13th Arrondissement, where Chinatown is located, to dine in a Laos restaurant.
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