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[Minato Ku]

After a bit a time in public transportation, its time to work.

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[mousquet]

What's the last picture (97)? That's not place du Marché Saint-Honoré, is it?
I'm also wondering about 91 and 92.

[Minato Ku]

Originally Posted by mousquet

What's the last picture (97)? That's not place du Marché Saint-Honoré, is it?
I'm also wondering about 91 and 92.

The picture 97 is the Cité du Retiro, it is near Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré at the west of Rue Royal.
The pictures 91 and 92 are the Rue Edouard VII, this is a big office complex built in the 1990's, only the facades on this streets are historic
The picture 93 show how it look when you go furter inside it.
It is between Rue Auber and Boulevard des Capucines at the west of Opera Garnier.

Many historic facade hide modern buildingin this area of Paris, it is called facadism.
They demolish a old building but they keep the facade and they build a newer building inside.

[ColDayMan]

Awesome.

[SHiRO]

Great pics!

[mousquet]

Nice. The thread and that facade approach reminded me of what Wiki quickly says about the design of place Vendôme (40) that's been developed from the 1680s. I couldn't tell how accurate Wiki is though...

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

[...] Les façades sont construites (avant même les bâtiments) [...]

Literally, the facades were built prior to the buildings themselves.
By the way, Wiki also says that the square as we know it is actually a 2nd version developed from 1699. The facades of the 1st design would have been demolished to reduce the square area.
Maybe the buildings around place des Victoires (34), that's been developed in the same period, were built in that same fashion facades first, then come the rest. At least, both squares show the typical symmetry of that time classic stuff.

The facadism concept you mention looks great... Wondering if it couldn't allow to develop some taller contemporary stuctures within the historic core by preserving its stone facades at the same time.

Heck, I'll visit those particular spots you're talking about, 97 looks excellent.