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Author Topic: Le Quiz d'Avent - jour 23, 21 Dec 2020  (Read 4148 times)
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« Reply #45 on: December 28, 2020, 18:36:26 »

Some judicious enlargement of the image reveals the name "Abbeville" on the gable end of the station building in picture 9 - so "Abbeville" for that one.

I think this leaves that ugly tower (no Cool) - the brutalist architecture reminds me of Le Havre, but that great source of quiz answers, Google reveals that Auguste Perret, the architect responsible for a number of buildings there gave his name to a tall building in Amiens - which looks like this one.

[for some reason the smiley/emoji with dark glasses appears for the number eight in this post!]
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« Reply #46 on: December 28, 2020, 18:44:55 »

[for some reason the smiley/emoji with dark glasses appears for the number eight in this post!]

If you select "Additional options - don't use Smileys" you can replace Cool with 8) .   
If you want to be  selective as I just did, write 8[I][/I]) to come up with 8) rather than Cool
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« Reply #47 on: December 28, 2020, 20:42:28 »

Some judicious enlargement of the image reveals the name "Abbeville" on the gable end of the station building in picture 9 - so "Abbeville" for that one.

I think this leaves that ugly tower - no 8 - the brutalist architecture reminds me of Le Havre, but that great source of quiz answers, Google reveals that Auguste Perret, the architect responsible for a number of buildings there gave his name to a tall building in Amiens - which looks like this one.

Yes, those were the two towns that I'm sure many of us have passed by or even gone through.

No. 8 is the Tour Perret seen over the back of Amiens station. I used to think this the ugliest building in Europe, but that's too harsh. But it does look to me like the work of an off-colour SHRDLU*.

However it, the station, and the surrounding square still look very drab and clunky to me, compared to his stuff at Le Havre - which I quite like (the centre, at least). Still, it's all listed as of historic importance. The square's now filled with a "bambouseraie" called the Octopus's Garden and a huge canopy (just visible in the photo), so you can barely see it any more! I used to look like this:


And No. 9 is Abbeville station - pretty eh? And quite unlike the town's post-war reconstruction style. That I think is quite successful: mostly rather domestic with just the hotel de ville allowed to show off a bit. None of the free pictures on line show is in context, so I had to dig out an old print of my own (1998).

Abbeville, unlike many other towns in northern France, was destroyed by the Luftwaffe (20/5/1940).  Planning its reconstruction started during the war, and involved several architects so it's not associated with a single name like Perret's.

* Very much narrowcasting, that comment.
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