Cinémathèque Française | Frank Gehry
I was looking at architect Frank Gehry's projects and saw that he had a couple in Paris, so I swung by one of them whilst I was there in order to grab a photo of it.
This is the Cinémathèque Française, completed in 1994, and located a short walk from the Bercy station on the Metro.
It's another slightly challenging location as the building is surrounded by trees, and in order to get close enough not to have the trees in the way requires a wide angle tilt shift lens in order to fit everything into a single frame. Fortunately I'd brought my TS-E 17mm f/4L lens with me which did the trick :)
It's almost like a Cubist painting in architectural form, and I like the way it's made from the same kind of stone that all the more historical buildings of Paris seem to be constructed from ...
Cinémathèque Française | Frank Gehry
I was looking at architect Frank Gehry's projects and saw that he had a couple in Paris, so I swung by one of them whilst I was there in order to grab a photo of it.
This is the Cinémathèque Française, completed in 1994, and located a short walk from the Bercy station on the Metro.
It's another slightly challenging location as the building is surrounded by trees, and in order to get close enough not to have the trees in the way requires a wide angle tilt shift lens in order to fit everything into a single frame. Fortunately I'd brought my TS-E 17mm f/4L lens with me which did the trick :)
It's almost like a Cubist painting in architectural form, and I like the way it's made from the same kind of stone that all the more historical buildings of Paris seem to be constructed from ...