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Essential Architecture- Paris Le Parisien Offices now the head office of France Cable Radio (France Télécom group) |
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architect |
G. P. Chedanne |
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location |
Rue Réaumur, No. 124 (Métro Réaumur Sébastopole). |
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date |
1903 |
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style |
Early Modern |
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construction |
riveted iron frame |
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type |
Office Building |
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Rue Réaumur, No. 124, shown above, is a great
modern building designed by Georges Chédanne in 1905. Except for its
upper portion, the facade of this building consists entirely of glass
and riveted metal, allowing the architect to develop a design of
striking originality. Chédanne's authorship, has sometimes been
contested because he also designed buildings in a more conventional
classical idiom, but these doubts would seem to be unjustified. The
building has long housed the offices of the newspaper Le Parisien
libéré.
Text and illustration quoted from- "Paris, Buildings and Monuments" An Illustrated Guide with over 850 Drawings and Neighborhood Maps. By Michael Poisson. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 463 pp, 1999. |
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"Le Parisien confronted the street with a
riveted- and plated-steel facade in which a dialogue was established not
only between the load-bearing elements and the non-load-bearing
fenestration with its corrugated-steel sheet spandrels, but also between
the primary and secondary systems of vertical support. The primary
system carries the spandrels according to an evident Palladian order of
A:B:A:B:A:B:A, while a secondary system picks up the arrises of the bay
windows on the top floor and conducts these loads back to the paired
columns at the ground. As recent commentators have remarked, the plastic
quality of this structural system anticipates in some respects the
gigantic megastructural works which have recently emerged from in
America from the school of Mies van der Rohe." — from Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p118. |
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