# No. Architecture

No. Architecture is a new website and newsletter about architecture related events in Paris in London, led by Caroline Rabourdin, Peter Cook's assistant in ESA.

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# Visiting Concrete Le Havre / Auguste Perret & Oscar Niemeyer

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Yesterday, I went to Le Havre in order to make a little photographic reportage within the city which was reconstructed after allied bombings in 1944. At this time Le Havre could be assimilated as the French Coventry and 10 000 new housing had to be built in ten years. Auguste Perret, who was already 71 years old, was appointed as Chief Architect of the Reconstruction and his office designed all the buildings which are now Le Havre downtown. In order to be efficient, every single architectural element's dimensions were according to a 6.24 metres weft. Thus, every buildings are 2x6.24m wide, every post is separated to another one by 6.24m, every window is 6.24/6m etc. In addition of that, Perret wanted to build an huge concrete layer 3.50 metres above ground and to "lay" all the city on it because of the boggy land. Thus, all the technical facilities (water, electricity, telephone, car parks etc.) would have been put under this layer. Unfortunetly, it wasn't accepted by...
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Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art... The Art Gallery Of New South Wales ~ The World's Leading Collection Of Australian Art ~ Visited By 1.5 Million Annually Kunsthistorisches Museum Presents the Amazing Bernard Pras Exhibition National Museum Wales Acquires Picasso's "Still Life with Poron" Savannah College of Art showcases Famous Works on Paper Metropolitan Museum of Art to show Pierre Bonnard ~ The Late Interiors "Art in Motion" by Sonia Delaunay at Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The Neue Galerie New York presents "Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism" The Louvre Abu Dhabi Features the Museum's First Acquisitions Preview Egyptian Culture and Tourism Is Dying ~ Artifacts Are Being Repaired ~ Can Egypt Be Repaired? Toledo Museum of Art acquires Bolognese Master Guercino's Baroque Painting The Benaki Museum hosts Constantine (Dikos) B...
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