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4 Oct 2012
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New Paris architecture photographs, taken on 4 October 2012:
La Cinémathèque Française:
Address: 51 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris
La Cinémathèque Française, Paris 12e, France
The building is situated on the edge of Parc de Bercy and was originally meant to be the home of the American Centre. This post-modern building was designed by Frank Gehry and opened its doors in 1993.
The building consist of 4 different blocks, 2 restrained blocks forming a protective angle around two fragmented elements, situated on the park side. The two fragmented elements mark the entrance to the building situated on the park side. There is no public entry from the street side.
The street elevation on rue Bercy is divided in two and appears more conventional with regular window openings. The corner block is placed on a glass plinth and due to the overhang the glass corner seems to be almost squashed by the sand stone clad upper stories. Most likely it was the architects’ intention to soften the corned, so rather than a hard stone corner the corner has been “pulled back” thus making the arrival of the building from this end of rue Bercy more welcoming.
The two fragmented elements facing Parc Bercy is a juxtaposition of volumes creating unsuspected spaces and openings throughout. These relate more clearly to later Gehry’s buildings.
186 new Paris architecture photographs, taken on 20 – 23 Oct 2011
Pictures © Adrian Welch, key buildings:
Musée du quai Branly, VIIe arrondissement
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Musée du quai Branly
Chanel Pavilion, at Institut du Monde Arabe, 1 Rue des Fossés, V
Zaha Hadid Architects
see Institut du Monde Arabe Paris page and scroll down for more
Tour Eiffel, Rue de Champ de Mars, VIIe
Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Institut du Monde Arabe, 1 Rue des Fossés, V
Jean Nouvel Architect
Institut du Monde Arabe Paris
Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand, XIIIe
Dominique Perrault Architects
Bibliothèque Nationale Paris
Musée du Louvre, Ie
Design: various architects
Louvre Museum Building
Pyramide du Louvre, Ie
I.M. Pei & Partners Architects
Pyramide du Louvre
Le Pantheon de Paris, V
Jacques Germain Soufflot, Architect
Pantheon Building Paris
The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Parc de la Villette, XIXe
Ian Ritchie Architects
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
La Basilique du Sacré Coeur, Montmartre, XVIIIe – Sacred Heart Church building
Paul Abadie Architect
Sacré Coeur Paris
Le Bon Marché, famous Parisian department store, VIIe
Louis-Charles Boilleau and Gustave Eiffel
Le Bon Marché
Parc de la Villette, Porte de la Villette, avenue Jean-Jaurès, IXXe
Design: Bernard Tschumi Architects
Parc de la Villette : Parisian Architecture competition
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris – Notre-Dame Cathedral, Ile de la Cité 6, IVe
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Cité de la Musique, Avenue Jean-Jaurès, La Villette, IXXe
Christian de Portzamparc Architect
Cité de la Musique
Maison de Radio France, XVIe
1963 ; 2010-16
Henri Bernard ; redevelopment by Architecture-Studio
Maison de Radio France
Pictures © Adrian Welch, listed alphabetically:
Champs de Mars, from the Eiffel Tower : looking southeast towards Ecole Militaire + Tour Montparnasse + Unesco Building:
Colonne de Julliet, Bastille:
La colonne Vendôme, statue of Napoleon on top:
Conran Shop Paris, Rue du Bac – opened in 1992 in the Bon Marche building, design by Gustave Eiffel:
The Conservatoire de Paris, 209 Avenue Jean Jaurès – college of music and dance founded in 1795, located on eatsern edge of Parc de la Villette:
Église Saint-Roch, 284 rue Saint-Honoré, 1st arrondissement – The Church of Saint Roch, a late Baroque church:
plan 1653 Jacques Le Mercier
circular Chapel of the Virgin 1705-10 Jules Hardouin Mansart
front 1736-40 Robert de Cotte
La faculté de droit, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université, Paris 1 – faculty of law – facing the Panthéon’s western (main) facade:
Hôtel Lutetia, 45 Boulevard Raspail, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th Arrondissement:
La Géode – Omnimax theatre, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Parc de la Villette – opened in 1985:
L’Assemblée nationale, 126 rue de l’Université, 6th Arrondissement – lower house of the French national parliament, aka Palais Bourbon:
Public space at foot of Avenue de l’Opera:
Montmartre church building
Église Saint-Jean de Montmartre – Anatole de Baudot
Le musée des Arts décoratifs 107, rue de Rivoli:
Building on Quai Branly – viewed from the Eiffel Tower
Opéra de la Bastille, 120 Rue de Lyon, Place de la Bastille, XIIe
Carlos Ott, Architect
Opéra Garnier, Paris IXe – aka Palais Garnier, 1860-75 – since the construction of Opéra de Paris Bastille in 1989, it is now mainly used for ballet performances
Charles Garnier, Architect
The Palais de Justice, Île de la Cité, central Paris:
Paris apartment building, south side of Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand, XIIIe:
Paris buildings, view looking east from Eiffel Tower:
Paris crèche building, south west of the city:
Paris Metro canopy, Place des Abbesses – Art Nouveau station entrance, Montmartre
Hector Guimard
le Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 21 Boulevard Morland:
Place de la Concorde building
Place de la Concorde – Jacques-Ange Gabriel
Place Vendôme
Quai de Grenelle Buildings
Building on Quai Henri IV
St. Louis des Invalides, 1676-91 – Église Saint-Louis des Invalides
Jules Hardouin Mansart architect
Théâtre Paris-Villette, 211 Avenue Jean Jaurès
Palais Chaillot in Trocadéro, view from the Eiffel Tower
Versailles market building, west of Paris
Versailles station building, west of Paris
Gare Versailles-Chantier
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