View allAll Photos Tagged parisarchitecture
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.
Jon & Tina Reid | Travel Portfolio | Photography Blog | Travel Flickr Group
All the houses in the square have balconies at first floor level sitting above the arches on beautiful ornate brackets.
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.
Pentax K1000
Vivitar 28-105mm
1:3.5 - 4.5
Ilford 400
Bahnhof Flughafen Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Roissy-en-France, Terminal 2D, 1989–1995, Paul Andreu und Jean-Marie Duthilleul
.
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:
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!
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...
Twilight scene along the Sein River in Paris, France.
Jon & Tina Reid | Travel Portfolio | Photography Blog | Travel Flickr Group
Le Square Gardette is trendy restaurant bar round the corner from Square Maurice Gardette which is the centre of a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood in Paris's 11th arrondissement.
The building reflected in its window is one of the few modern apartment blocks in what is generally a traditional C19 Haussmanesque district in the north east of the city.
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.