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Bricks in Paris

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Discussion and descriptions of brick buildings in Paris.

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  • Hôtel Emile Gaillard

    Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 15:01 in 75017, victor-jules février

    Built for a rich banker who needed a large structure to store his significant collection of renaissance art, this impressive house at first looks much older than it is. The design touches have a mixture of gothic and renaissance influences, and the ...

  • Ecole Maternelle Trois Bornes

    Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 15:12 in 20th century, 75011, louis longuet, rené requet-barville

    A modernist chef d'ouevre, this school building used brick to fantastic effect to decorate concrete curves, balconies and porthole windows. The narrow, pink coloured bricks were layed in alternate directions, vertically then horizontally, giving the ...

  • An Original Brick Facade

    Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 13:53 in 20th century, 75011, architecture studio

    The sheltered housing project on the Rue Morand built on a previously run-down site in Paris garnered a lot of praise when it was completed. Andrew Ayers in his book 'The Architecture of Paris' called it "a colourful clearing in a dense and dingy ar...

  • Ecole des Arts et Metiers

    Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 15:25 in 20th century, 75013, georges roussi

    Stand in front of the main entrance to this prestigious technical school and you will see a classical stone structure, but if you wander around the perimeter of the site you will discover more mysterious buildings where brick dominates. It should be ...

  • The First Social Housing

    Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 14:46 in social housing, 19th century, wilbrod chabrol, 75013

    Almost all social housing in Paris up until the 1960s (when concrete took over) was built using brick, so it is entirely appropriate that the first such structure should have been constructed with the material. At the beginning of the 20th century, s...

  • Notre Dame de la Sagesse

    Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 14:29 in 20th century, le corbusier, 75013, pierre-louis faloci

    One hundred years after Anatole De Baudet's St Jean de Montmartre church became the first religious building to use brick in the city, Pierre-Louis Faloci again used the material to create this modern structure, interestingly also the last such build...

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We look forward to every posting from Bricks in Paris! Keep up the great work Adam.

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