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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2010 14:20:40 GMT
Some of "Old Paris" needed to disappear, but sometimes the old cobblestones and ancient walls really fire the imagination of times long gone.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2010 17:04:03 GMT
(We have a series taken of the old hospital building being taken down with explosives, but they were taken on slide film. I need to get a slide-scanner!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 19:22:02 GMT
I am often amazed at how it is sometimes decided to retain the façade of totally ordinary buildings with nothing striking about them. But that's part of what makes Paris what it is.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2011 23:03:23 GMT
Do you suppose there is some law, of safety &/or historic preservation, that demands that the facade be retained?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 23:18:35 GMT
There is a law concerning (obviously) national monuments but also "classified sites." These can be old famous cafés, buildings or all sorts of other things. When a site is "classified," you cannot touch any part of the classified décor, although you can put up walls to mask it (and it is amazing how many places have done this -- there are often treasures hiding behind sheetrock in France). But frankly, the walls shown above have no historical or artistic value, as far as I know -- not even a "Haussmannian" façade. So some other rule is at work here, because I sincerely doubt that it will save any money for the construction company to work behind these walls and windows instead of pouring new concrete.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2011 15:58:53 GMT
Here is how that happened: [photobucket height=480 width=640]http://s450.photobucket.com/albums/qq228/kerouac2/demolition/?action=view¤t=1b508d74.pbw[/photobucket]
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2011 5:09:24 GMT
You know, Kerouac .......... you are GOOD!
Great pictures -- I love #35 -- and the sequence, well, that is just plain brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 7:27:27 GMT
I pass that site every day on my way to the nursing home, so I got in the habit of taking a picture every time there was something different.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2011 20:15:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2012 20:04:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2012 17:40:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2012 23:15:40 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jul 25, 2012 18:39:18 GMT
Here is how to take a building down the lazy way. From the bottom up. Actually this is in the City of London just across from the Gherkin.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2012 18:47:35 GMT
That's pretty amazing, besides the fact that the building looks perfectly fine to begin with.
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Post by mossie on Jul 25, 2012 19:19:29 GMT
Ah Kerouac, it wasn't posh enough for the bankers, you know how they like to spend our money. Note the building down the street which looks like a pile of galvanised buckets. designed by the same man who "designed" the Beaubourg centre. Cynical, moi
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 12:08:57 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Oct 24, 2014 18:14:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 19:44:01 GMT
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Post by mossie on Apr 7, 2015 16:52:20 GMT
Those machines always remind me of prehistoric monsters
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 17:32:24 GMT
And they are demolishing the convent of the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres. A nursing home will replace it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2016 4:48:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 11:13:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 16:29:49 GMT
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Post by mossie on Apr 30, 2016 14:13:07 GMT
The jaws of death
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2018 5:19:55 GMT
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Post by questa on Jul 7, 2018 0:00:02 GMT
Mossie, I saw a video recently demonstrating the fine control of these monsters. The machine was just like the one in the last photo. The operator trundled it up to a table set in the rubble of a demolition site,then tipping, twisting and manoeuvering the jaws, made the machine open a water bottle and pour some water into a delicate glass and raise it in a "cheers" to the building project.
Very impressive!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 19, 2019 16:10:10 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 10, 2023 14:29:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 10, 2023 19:27:28 GMT
Bizarre to see this deliberate demolition, since the world has seen so many images of war & its destruction lately.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 10, 2023 19:36:52 GMT
That was my impression as well, especially since the site seems to have been abandoned for several weeks. It made me think of Gaza.
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