text: Built with remarkable speed ( Danish architect Johann-Otto von Sprekelsen won the contest in 1983 and it was ready for the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989 ) , the Grande Arche stands on an axis with the Arc de Triomphe and the Cour Carree of the Louvre .
  
  ###
  
  The Grande Arche was built very quickly and stands between the Arc de Triomphe and the Cour Carree of the Louvre .