France - Paris - La Cinemateque Francaise at dusk 01_DSC1087
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When I first saw this Frank Gehry building in Paris back in the early 1990's it housed the American Institute. Seemingly it closed soon after that and stood empty for nine years until it became the home of the Cinemateque Francaise.
Unfortunately it was closed when I visited but it proved a useful distraction during a 3hr stopover at the nearby Bercy coach station on my way back from Brussels.
Click here to see more Gehry buildings I've photographed : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157602135990875
From the architectmagazine.com website : " Gehry’s design visibly displayed a theater block, an exhibition volume, stacks of offices, and artist-in-residence quarters. Sculptural as it was, his proposal respected the urban context in its scale, its limestone cladding, and the way it hugged its property lines. The broad curve of its lobby, facing the park, was mandated by the city. French critics called the design “too Parisian;” it was not the bold Gehry for which they had hoped.
After opening in 1994 with shaky funding, the American Center closed in 1996, and for the next nine years, the structure stood empty. Before it could house the Cinémathèque Française, internal changes were needed—to provide storage for collections, for instance, rather than rehearsal studios, and while these changes were not carried out by Gehry, he did help to select local firm l’Atelier de l’Île. But the exterior and key public interiors are virtually unchanged, and the building serves its new program as if designed for it."
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France - Paris - La Cinemateque Francaise at dusk 01_DSC1087
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
When I first saw this Frank Gehry building in Paris back in the early 1990's it housed the American Institute. Seemingly it closed soon after that and stood empty for nine years until it became the home of the Cinemateque Francaise.
Unfortunately it was closed when I visited but it proved a useful distraction during a 3hr stopover at the nearby Bercy coach station on my way back from Brussels.
Click here to see more Gehry buildings I've photographed : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157602135990875
From the architectmagazine.com website : " Gehry’s design visibly displayed a theater block, an exhibition volume, stacks of offices, and artist-in-residence quarters. Sculptural as it was, his proposal respected the urban context in its scale, its limestone cladding, and the way it hugged its property lines. The broad curve of its lobby, facing the park, was mandated by the city. French critics called the design “too Parisian;” it was not the bold Gehry for which they had hoped.
After opening in 1994 with shaky funding, the American Center closed in 1996, and for the next nine years, the structure stood empty. Before it could house the Cinémathèque Française, internal changes were needed—to provide storage for collections, for instance, rather than rehearsal studios, and while these changes were not carried out by Gehry, he did help to select local firm l’Atelier de l’Île. But the exterior and key public interiors are virtually unchanged, and the building serves its new program as if designed for it."
© D.Godliman