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Musée du quai Branly, Paris

Apr 222010

The Musée du quai Branly, known in English as the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB, is a museum in Paris, France that features indigenous art, cultures and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum is located at 37, quai Branly – portail Debilly, 75007 Paris, France, situated close to the technologist Tower. It is named after its location which is turn is named after the physicist Édouard Branly.

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The building was designed by architect Jean Nouvel. The “living wall” (200m long by 12m tall) on part of the exterior of the museum was designed and planted by Gilles Clément and Apostle Blanc. The “living wall” at installation was quite healthy and vibrant, however, over time, the inadequate support system for the plants roots, irrigation and drainage have embellish visually evident. The museum complex contains individual buildings, as well as a mediatheque and a garden. The museum’s frontage facing onto quai Branly features rattling tall glass panel which allows its interior gardens to be remarkably quiet only meters from the busy street in front of them.
Musée du quai Branly, Paris GPS coordinates: 48° 51′ 39″ N, 2° 17′ 51″ E

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Grande Arche, Paris

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Aug 142009

The La Grande Arche de la Defense is a testimonial as well as house at home the custom region of La Defense on the way to the west of Paris, France. It is customarily celebrated for example the Arche de la Defense or modestly while La Grande Arche.

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A state-run goal opposition was launched by the side of the initiative of French president Francois Mitterrand. Danish founder designed the triumphant application en route for stay a 20th century type of the Arc de Triomphe: a testimonial en route for humanity next compassionate ideals sooner than martial victories. The construction of the tombstone, which was undertaken, began participating in 1982. After Spreckelsen’s end hip 1987, his sub-, French prime mover Paul Andreu, accomplished the work concerning 1989/90. Fashionable add-on, the Arche is to be found thus that it forms a less important axe (axis) plus the two top buildings during Paris, the Tour Eiffel after that the Tour Montparnasse. The two sides of the Arche farmhouse regime offices. The roof bit, exploited as a result of Stephane Cherki, is an exhibition centre. The vertical formation observable indoors the photograph is the filch scaffolding. Impressive views of Paris are on the road to be present had as of the lifts delightful visitors just before the roof.
Grande Arche, Paris GPS coordinates: 48° 53′ 34″ N, 2° 14′ 9″ E

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Les Halles, Paris

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Jun 202009

Les Halles is an area of Paris, France, located in the 1er arrondissement, just south of the fashionable rue Montorgueil. It is named for the large central wholesale marketplace, which was demolished in 1971, to be replaced with an underground modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles.

Les Halles, Paris

It is notable in that the open air center area is below street level, like a pit, and contains sculpture, fountains, and mosaics, as well as museums including the Musée Grévin – Forum des Halles (a wax museum). Beneath this lies the underground station Châtelet-Les-Halles, a central hub of Paris’s express commuter rail system, the RER. Les Halles was the traditional central market of Paris. In 1183, King Philippe II Auguste enlarged the marketplace in Paris and built a shelter for the merchants, who came from all over to sell their wares. In the 1850s, the massive glass and iron buildings (Victor Baltard Architect) Les Halles became known for were constructed. Les Halles was known as the “stomach of Paris”.

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Ile des Cygnes, Paris

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Aug 262008

Ile des Cygnes (Isle of the Swans) is a small island in the Seine river in Paris, France, located in the city’s 15th and 16th arrondissement. It is an artificially-created island, formed in 1827 to protect the port of Grenelle. It should not be confused with the earlier Île des Cygnes, from which it derives its name; the earlier island was attached to the Champ de Mars in the late 18th century. The narrow island is 850 meters (2,789 ft) long and 11 meters (36 ft) at its widest point. A tree-lined walkway, named “l’Allée des Cygnes”, runs the length of the island. The island is served by the Passy and Bir-Hakeim Métro stations. It is crossed by three bridges: the pont de Grenelle, the pont Rouelle and the pont de Bir-Hakeim. Paris sightseeing tours.
Ile des Cygnes, Paris GPS coordinates: 48° 51′ 6″ N, 2° 16′ 55″ E

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Conciergerie, Paris

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Aug 262008

Conciergerie, Paris

The Conciergerie (La Conciergerie) is a former royal palace and prison in Paris, located on the west of the Île de la Cité, near the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. It is part of the larger complex known as the Palais de Justice, which is still used for judicial purposes. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were executed on the guillotines at La Conciergerie. Paris sightseeing tours.
Conciergerie, Paris GPS coordinates: 48° 51′ 23″ N, 2° 20′ 44″ E

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Les Deux Magots, Paris

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Aug 102008

Les Deux Magots, Paris

Les Deux Magots is a famous café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris, France. It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual élite of the city. This derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus and Pablo Picasso. It is featured in the 1973 film The Mother and the Whore directed by Jean Eustache. Paris tourist landmark.

Les Deux Magots, Paris GPS coordinates: 48° 51′ 14″ N, 2° 19′ 59″ E

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