Photography

I was invited some someone who live in a skyscraper in Paris, which offered me an unusual panorama. The old church, lost in the modern buildings: A modern stadium, on the right, cemetery on the left: A dizzy view from the 15th floor: The good old Eiffel T...  

Close to the “mile high club” at that height.

Freaks me out.

I wouldn’t have imagined that was Paris. There’s definitely great value in retaining the facade of old buildings, such as the preservation of history, culture and design through time, amongst other things.

How did this area look before these brutalist buildings were put there?

...no less!

15eme, Grenelle? These buildings remind me of Jacques Tati's Playtime which is set in Paris but you cannot recognize the city AT ALL because it has been plastered by post-modern architecture.

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There are a few "classy" tall housing buildings in the 13th, but they are not on the Olympiades patch we can see here, closer to the 5th district, like the "plein ciel" building, with a roofed poil as well as an open sky pool both at the top of the buildi... 

i shall show you one day!

I do not mind modern urban architecture as long as the facades and general layout are preserved. The Cemetery was probably out of the city when it was originally built, and now it is in the middle of urban areas. Looking forward to the next visit.

I used to go there quite a bit at the beginning of my 10 years in Paris. I had just returned from 18 months in Vietnam, and it's in this area of Paris that you get the best Vietnamese food. I can't recall the name of this huge, fairly run down shopping ce...