RENNES - France

RS-steph35 · #1 Posted **Nov 30, 2007, 8:13 PM**

Welcome in Rennes !

210,000 inhabitants in city boundaries and something like 580,000 in metropolitan area...

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hope you liked to see it, i could add more later...

skylife · #2 Posted **Nov 30, 2007, 8:41 PM**

Very interesting...not the typical images one conjures up when thinking of France but a very cool mix of styles.

Cory · #3 Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 1:15 AM**

Very nice pics and nice modern achitecture.

arbeiter · #4 Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 1:52 AM**

Rennes is way more modern in its architecture than I had imagined.

Chelsea Spy · #5 Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 11:04 AM**

cool mix of the old, the newish and the new!

samne · #6 Posted **Dec 1, 2007, 1:20 PM**

Not what I expected to see in Rennes either. France has alot of great modern stuff but I've mostly seen it outside the city centres in vast tracts of development. Interesting to see so much modern infill.

Gaudi-esque?

RS-steph35 · #7 Posted **Dec 3, 2007, 4:01 PM**

thanks for your comments

Rennes has the particularity that its 6 "modern" quarters have been built on its territory.
2 of them are very close to the old city, one on south (called "COlombier", it replaced a military basement) the other one on west (called "Bourg l'Eveque", it replaced old unhealthy quarter), each one have two "tall" buildings (for France and for Brittany, they are tall

) 100m and 65m and an interesting density...

the others modern quarters (from 70's) have been built on fields, but always in the city...

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Originally Posted by samne

Gaudi-esque ?

in the details, yes, but not when you see the entire building that is totally boxy

now, the rest of the serie...

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arbeiter · #8 Posted **Dec 3, 2007, 5:32 PM**

Wow, Rennes is really cool. Especially considering how small it is.

I found this on Wikipedia, I think it's among the most striking piece of Rennais architecture of all:

arbeiter · #9 Posted **Dec 3, 2007, 5:33 PM**

Also, some other interesting things about Rennes:

It is the world's smallest city with a functioning metro system (excluding the weird mini-metro in the Tyrolean Alps). And it looks like the city has over 120,000 daily metro trips, that's 50% of the city's population and more than 25% of the entire metro area - talk about some excellent ridership statistics.

wisla_krakow · #10 Posted **Dec 3, 2007, 8:06 PM**

Wow, striking architecture. Thank you for the photos.

Fabb · #11 Posted **Dec 5, 2007, 9:09 AM**

^Interesting.
Too bad those things have become virtually impossible now.

elsonic · #12 Posted **Dec 7, 2007, 5:44 PM**

architects had fun in the seventies!

Austinlee · #13 Posted **Dec 7, 2007, 6:48 PM**

Neat!

Besides alot of the older architecture, alot of the modern pics here remind me of Japan. And i mean that in a good way or course; France has alot more modernism than I ever knew.

ady26 · #14 Posted **Dec 7, 2007, 7:39 PM**

France is a piece of good architecture,where modernism fits well the new!

arbeiter · #15 Posted **Dec 7, 2007, 10:03 PM**

Charles Rennie Mackintosh should have built something here - get it, Charles Rennes Mackintosh?

ColDayMan · #16 Posted **Dec 7, 2007, 10:36 PM**

Awesome!

MSPtoMKE · #17 Posted **Dec 7, 2007, 11:27 PM**

Love the façade detail photos, you've got talent! Rennes looks large and modern for such a relatively small city. Not what I was expecting!

I like this one a lot:

giallo · #18 Posted **Dec 8, 2007, 5:36 AM**

Sweet! Eclectic looking city.

Awesome job.

M II A II R II K · #19 Posted **Dec 9, 2007, 6:22 AM**

Very unique architecture styles there.

gatt · #20 Posted **Dec 9, 2007, 5:50 PM**

what is it?