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This photo of Notre Dame de Paris at night was taken from underneath the pont de l'archevêché during one of our Paris photo tours. The bells of Notre Dame were ringing to mark the anniversary of the 7th January 2015 attack at Charlie Hebdo.
The idea of providing protected shopping 'centers' is as old as trading : no one wants the goods to be ruined or the potential custommer deterred by weather conditions. The form may differ depending on the era and the country but such places always and everywhere exist(ed), be they souks, covered markets or shopping malls. While the wooden galeries du Palais Royal, built in 1786 and destroyed since, are considered as the parisian galeries prototype, the real expansion of the concept occured in the first half of the19th century. More than 30 passages or galeries have been built since and most of them still exist, each of them having its own personality: from the luxuous shops in Galerie Vivienne and Colbert to the simple passage way like Passage Dauphine, from the fashion designers haunt in Passage du Grand Cerf to the little Indian/Pakistan restaurants' collection in the shaddy Passage Brady; including the more 'classical' Passage Verdeau, Passage Jouffroy and Passage des Panoramas. After a quasi-disapearance during the 2nd empire (overshadowed by the new 'Grands Magasins'), they found a second youth at the end of the 20th century and continue to change : the Passage du Havre has been renovated and turned into a modern mini-mall, new passages have even been created like the marche Saint Honore (hosting furniture designers)... But they all have some things in common, the light and the sounds: due to their glass roofs, the natural light, even filtered through pebble-glass differs from any sort of man-made light, and they retain this incredible quality of peace due to muted sounds.
Laprade et Bazin, Essais de Culture Forcee Electriquement. Boutiage a Paris. Facade en Contreplaque et Staff. Architectes S.A.D.G. Editions s. de Bonadona.
All the houses in the square have balconies at first floor level sitting above the arches on beautiful ornate brackets.
The Paris Bourse (or "Bourse de Paris" in French) is the historical Paris stock exchange, known as Euronext Paris from 2000 onwards. The building, known as the Palais Brongniart, is located in the Place de la Bourse, in the 2nd arondissement, Paris.
A closer zoom on the the facade by daylight of the famous parisian hotel located on the left bank of Paris. Hotel Lutetia Paris, part of the Concorde Hotels & Resort portfolio. Lutetia derived from the word Lutece was the ancient capital of before Paris.
The Paris Bourse (or "Bourse de Paris" in French) is the historical Paris stock exchange, known as Euronext Paris from 2000 onwards. The building, known as the Palais Brongniart, is located in the Place de la Bourse, in the 2nd arondissement, Paris.
Golden light warms the top of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, a church building on the top of Montmartre, the highest natural point in the city of Paris.
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At the top of the staircase, against the window, stands Rodin's sculpture of 1900, "Homme qui Marche sur Colonne".
The artist dedicated this work to his friend the painter and photographer Edward Steichen. Steichen had been inspired to visit Paris to see Rodin's sculptures when he read in the American press about the controversy surrounding Rodin's statue of Balzac in 1898.
He eventually visited Paris in 1900 and met Rodin a year later having been introduced by a mutual friend. They, in turn, became close friends and Steichen did a number of portraits of Rodin as well as photographing his sculptures, including that of Balzac.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Project by Dominque Perrault architecture.
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Bahnhof Flughafen Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Roissy-en-France, Terminal 2D, 1989–1995, Paul Andreu und Jean-Marie Duthilleul
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The main entrance to the Musee du Luxembourg boasts not only beautiful pediments but, below the arch, magnificent bronze doors designed and sculpted by Italian artist Cecco Bonanotte in 2006.
Details of the doors are shown in the following shots.
For details of the life and work of Cecco Bonanotte see here:
One of the best views in my opinion of Paris is from the Arc de Triomphe. I've created a series of 5 of these images to show the spectacular view of Paris from the top of the Arc and tried hard to process them all similarly.--Dave
Viewed from the inside a close up of the advanced responsive brise soleil that make up the south elevation of jean Nouvel's Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris. It is one of several hundred light sensitive diaphragms that regulate the amount of light allowed to enter the building.
See here for more information on the building:
www.archdaily.com/162101/ad-classics-institut-du-monde-ar...
What is now known as a Mansard roof was first used on part of the Louvre in 1550 and was popularised by the architect Francois Mansart (1598-1666) during the C17.
However it became most fashionable in the late C19 during the reconstruction of Paris by Napolean III and Baron Haussmann - as seen here in an apartment block on Rue Lacharriere in Square Maurice Gardette. The Mansard (or double hipped) roof allowed the addition of two extra floors into the building at little extra cost and provided cheap accommodation for servants - and starving romantic artists!