There's so much more to Paris than just Ottoman architecture!

In addition to the Ottoman architecture that is very Parisian and fits in with what everyone thinks of as Paris, Paris also has a lot of buildings that are not so "Paris". After measuring the Art Nouveau architecture of Guimard in the 16th arrondissement of Paris with Shenglan, Xiaobian became interested in strange architecture in Paris. This article will share the collection of "conspicuous bag" buildings.

🟠 Philharmonie de Paris

The Philharmonie de Paris is located in the PARC de Vilatte in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Officially inaugurated on January 14, 2015, it is known as "one of the greatest music buildings in the world". The "heart" of this music complex is the 2,400-seat concert hall designed by the French designer Jean Nouvel (who also designed the Lucerne Cultural and Conference Center, as we know it, and the new National Art Museum of China, among other projects). The layout of the concert hall, which places the stage in the "center" (not the absolute center) of the auditorium, reduces the distance between the audience and the performers and increases the sense of intimacy.

The exterior wall composed of numerous aluminum mosaics is slowly unfolded and wrapped on the gentle slope of the hill. The color of the sky is reflected on the mirror exterior wall, and there is a marginal blurred vision. The abstract bird-shaped mosaics on the exterior walls create a strange dynamic in the frozen building. The exterior is inset with 340,000 birds in seven shapes in four shades, ranging from light gray to black, symbolizing a grand takeoff.

As a functional building, the Philharmonie de Paris is certainly more than just beautiful. Jean Nouvel invited the famous New Zealand master of acoustic design (Harold Marshall) Sir Harold Marshall (the acoustic designer of Guangzhou Grand Theatre), the Japanese master of acoustics (Yasuhisa Toyota) Yasuhisa Toyoda (works include: Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall, Tokyo Suntory Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, etc.) participated in the acoustic design. The effect is different between the traditional shoebox concert hall and the new valley terrace hall. First, in terms of acoustic features, through the bold cantilevered terraces and "floating cloud" ceilings, the designers attempted to reproduce the powerful lateral reflection and rich enveloping sense of the shoebox concert Hall, without losing the sense of abundant space of the valley terrace Hall.

🟠 Immeuble Lavirotte

Immeuble Lavirotte is a masterpiece of Parisian Art Nouveau, located on Rue Lappe in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Built between 1900 and 1901 by Jules Lavirotte, the award-winning building's facade is dreamlike, especially when you walk near the Eiffel Tower.
In the creative era of the early 20th century, Jules Lavirotte set an example of bold and innovative architecture for Paris. His La Vellette building, at 29 Rue d 'Lappe, is one of the jewels of Art Nouveau in Paris, and the glow of this bygone era (1890-1910) lives on in works such as Castel Beranger and, of course, this building. In 1901, the city of Paris awarded the building the "Most Beautiful Exterior" award for its bold fusion of form and materials.

🟠Espaces d’Abraxas

In the eastern suburbs of Paris, in the province of Seine-Saint-Denis, lies a cluster of large "Tower of Babel" residential buildings, most of which were built between 1950 and 1980 after the war to solve the housing crisis caused by urbanization, foreign immigration and other problems.

This group of buildings between postmodernism and neoclassicism, with a strong utopian image, attracted the attention of French photographer Laurent Kronental. Contrary to the media and public criticism of the neighborhood, Laurent Kronental was struck by the project's original ambition and its antiquated modernist characteristics, believing it belonged to a precious piece of history, and ended up spending four years documenting the dream of a former modernist utopia. And the people who grew old with this dream.

Laurent Kronental named the collection "Souvenir d 'un Future," meaning "a memory of the future."

🟠Centre Pompidou

The Pompidou National Centre for Arts and Culture, located on the right bank of the River Seine on the Via Beaubourg, was designed by the winners of 681 proposals from 49 countries - Renzo Piano from Italy and Richard Rogers from Britain. Construction began in 1972 and was completed in 1977, named in honor of French President Georges Pompidou.

The Art Center is divided into four parts: Industrial creation Center, public knowledge Library, modern art Museum, music and audio coordination and research center. The whole building covers an area of 7,500 square meters, with a total construction area of 100,000 square meters, with 6 floors on the ground. The main building is 168 meters long from north to south, 60 meters wide and 42 meters high.

Apart from the 28 columns that serve as supports on the outside, there is not a single column or even a single wall inside the entire building. In this design, the beams, columns, space trusses, pipelines, HVAC lighting equipment that are hidden in traditional buildings are painted in different colors, all of which are exposed to the public. Blue is the air conditioning equipment, green is the water supply and drainage pipes, yellow is the electrical facilities and pipelines. And a snake-like glass tube that holds the elevator, painted a delirious red, slants across the entire main facade as if no one were there.

🟠Les Tours Duo

Designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, the Tour Duo Twin Towers in Paris are now complete. The project consists of two towers, one 39 storeys and one 29 storeys, with heights of 180 and 125 meters respectively. While announcing the photos of the completion of the twin Towers, Jean Nouvel also shared his design thoughts on the project:

Among the many variables considered, these three factors dominate this design:

• The view from the Avenue de France;

• The building is located close to the railway line leading to the centre of Paris;

• The building is close to the Paris Ring Road, so it will become a distinctive city landmark.
  

  
  

🟠Immeuble penchee a Montmartre.

There is a Sinking House on the Montmartre Plateau in Paris

The house is located in Paris Montmartre next to the Sacre Coeur Cathedral, the house building in front of a small hill, from a certain Angle to see the house, it is covered by the hill, only a top corner in the line of sight. Then just by rotating the picture we took, making the hill into a small lawn parallel to the horizontal line, such a simple operation, the house seems to sink the general interesting. How can you miss this view when you travel to Paris? Don't forget to save it.

🟠 Arenes de Picasso
The Palacio d'Abraxas, designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, is famous in the Noisi region, but you may have already seen this unusual building, known as the "Golden Cheese of Noisi".

The Arenes de Picasso complex was designed by Spanish architect Manuel Nunez Yanowsky in 1981 and completed at Noisy-le-Grand in 1985. It was built in the 1960s as part of the urban plan for a new town to accommodate the large number of people living in the Paris region after World War II. At the time, several new towns were being built around Paris: Saint-Quentin Yvelin, Evry, Serge and Marne-Lavalais, and Noisy-le-Grand was one of them.

The goal of all these new districts is to create a socially integrated district, so the government has called on architects to come up with innovative urban designs. As a result, many postmodernist architectural projects flourished, Examples include Ricardo Bofill's Espaces in the Cergy, Montigny-le-Bretonneux and Mont-d'Est areas d'Abraxas) project.