Thursday, May 7, 2015

Addition

This is the addition that was added to the back of the Alliance Francaise building that I showed you yesterday. Designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, it was finished last summer and the bottom floor contains a theatre while the upper floors provide more classrooms for the centre. I took this pic in the fall when we still had leaves and green grass!

23 comments:

Luis Gomez said...

I really like this place.

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Not sure on that, looks like some of the ones round Oxford

EG CameraGirl said...

Lots of light can get through those windows, a very good thing.

Good news - trees are beginning to leaf out (well, a few varieties are).

TexWisGirl said...

pretty neat looking add-on! very modern.

Sharon said...

I like the modern look to it and yet is seems to fit.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

Well that was a little unexpected Pat :) Quite a different style to the original house.

William Kendall said...

I like its style.

21 Wits said...

This is a really neat design, and what a lovely fall day it was. It's a very pretty view.

Anonymous said...

It all fits together very nicely!

VP said...

Even better than the original!

Cloudia said...

They left the facade historic, but added this interesting bit around back, eh? I like it, P!



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Revrunner said...

Nice contemporary look.

Gosia said...

interesting addition

cieldequimper said...

Nice that they added wood!

Lois said...

What a contrast!

Birdman said...

Makes sense now. A theater added.

Randy said...

I love Modern design.

Genie -- Paris and Beyond said...

Leaves and green grass will be back soon. I wish we had a whole building for Alliance Française where I live.

Bises,
Genie

Stephanie said...

It is a visually pleasing building.

Halcyon said...

It looks great! A nice mix of modern and traditional.

Tom said...

I like all the glass! Tom The Backroads Traveller

Linda said...

Very interesting - and you've got one of my favourite things in the shot as well - a fire hydrant (so different from ours!).
I will post a picture of our Institut Francais at some point so that we can contrast and compare.

Jack said...

I didn't think I was going to like the modern addition, but this one is somewhere between OK and good. I haven't made my mind up about precisely where on that spectrum I land.