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The Smurfs buildings in Geneva
In the Grottes district of Geneva, there are buildings built between 1982 and 1984 by the architects Robert Frei, Christian Hunziker and Georges Berthoud. These very colorful buildings with unconventional shapes stand out in this city with its more classic architecture. The architects wanted to get out of constructions with straight lines, they were inspired…
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Testut-Latarjet museum
The Testut-Latarjet museum was founded in 1854, it’s the museum of anatomy and medical natural history attached to the faculty of medicine of Lyon. It was installed since 1930 in the grounds of the faculty of medicine, it was moved in 2015 to Rillieux-la-Pape (the photos were taken before the move, between 2014 and 2015).…
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The Valenciennes UFO
Place de la République in Valenciennes stands this building which does not go unnoticed. Designed by the architect Léon Forgia in the 1970s to house the CAF and the URSSAF (some French administrations), the work was completed in 1980 after certain hazards due in particular to a water table in the basement and administrative hassles.…
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Facteur Cheval’s ideal palace
Ferdinand Cheval built the palace in the garden of his house in Hauterives, in Drôme, between 1879 and 1912. During his postman rounds, long daily walks of about thirty kilometers, he let himself go in daydreaming, he often thought of this palace, imagining every cave, every sculpture, every detail. It was when he stumbled on…
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The foot, the sweater and the digestive system
The foot, the sweater and the digestive system are a set of sculptures installed on the beach of St Nazaire in 2021. Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel worked together on this triptych made up of concrete blocks reaching seven meters high, it was necessary solid to withstand the ocean. St Nazaire is indeed located at…
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Doel, the village that almost disappeared
Doel is a village located in Belgium, next to the port of Antwerp, on the banks of the Escaut. Before the 90s, it was a popular place for locals who came there for their Sunday stroll to enjoy nature, see the pretty houses, the small port, or the old mill dating from the 17th century.…
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Fragonard Museum
The Fragonard Museum is the museum of the National Veterinary School located in Maisons-Alfort in the Paris suburbs. Created in 1766, it’s one of the oldest museums in France, this imposing and diversified collection of 4200 items relating to domestic animals is from the 18th century until the 1980s. The four rooms of the museum…
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Nowa Huta in Krakow
Nowa Huta – the new foundry – is an experiment, designed and built from scratch to create an ideal city in the spirit of socialist realism. The communist authorities of Poland wanted a model city, a metallurgical complex planned for more than 30,000 workers as well as residential buildings to accommodate them, with large boulevards,…
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Ocean Serpent by Huang Yong Ping
Since 2012, in France where the river Loire meets the Atlantic Ocean, you can see this 130 meters long skeleton of a giant snake. In the background is the port of St Nazaire and the shipyards. Huang Yong Ping is an artist born in China in Xiamen in 1954. He came to France for an…
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Villa of hundred views
Today, we go for a walk in the Aiguelongue district in Montpellier to see the villa of hundred views. Its creator is an Italian mason, Victor Grazi, who would have started building the villa with his wife Ida in 1936. This date is given on the website of the association which takes care of the…
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