Posts from the 'dusty places' Category

[dusty places]: Poste, télégraphe, téléphone, caisse d’épargne

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Postal services combined with telegraphs and telephone is a classic association. However the alliance of a post office with a savings bank is neither rare and can be found in Europe and the United...

[dusty places]: Le phare de Nividic

Signalization plays an important role in communication. A lighthouse gives visual signals to ships passing by to help navigation and avoid accidents. A lighthouse can give additional acoustic si...

[dusty places]: graineterie

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There are some kind of shops that have disappeared in the last fifty years and been integrated mostly in a larger structure, a big general store or a super market. Think of the cordonnier who merge...

[dusty places]: Hospital demolition

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The architecture of an hospital has changed very much in the last 50-100 years. And this on a micro and macro point of view, concerning interiors to urbanism. The answer for the new needs on both...

[dusty places]: Aérotrain

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While traveling by train between Paris-Austerlitz and Blois on the Loire border on IC14041 we were puzzled by a viaduct like construction longing the rails nearby. I first suspected an industrial t...

[dusty places]: Central station

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Bruxelles Central is one of three big downtown located train stations of the Belgian capital (the others being Midi and Nord). Despite its desolated look the station is still deserved by all norma...

[dusty places]: Tangential movement of boats driven by water

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The river Rhein has a perpetual flow of water which can be used for transport, electricity and mill work (entre autres). Transport using water flow is supposed to be unidirectional following the ...

[dusty places]: Bureau Fiscal

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A relict from strict borders between Switzerland and connecting countries, the bureau fiscal is the French office for tax affaires of the passing by citizen. Before Schengen, a contract between Swi...

[dusty places]: Sky lines: traces of communication

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In analogy to our skyline article, we focus this time on lines in the sky. Traces of communication, digital or analog, combining house to house and uniting in the hub. The melting-pot of communica...

[dusty places]: Skyline considerations (Liege, Belgium)

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Much later after taking this photograph in Liege, Belgium, I thought about the ephemeral state of certain skylines. As we can read on Wikipedia: A skyline is the artificial horizon that a city̵...

[dusty places]: Industrial farmhouse in the Dombes area

historical

This old farm is part of a monastery. The place is that big that the brick buildings are very industrial looking. location: Le Plantay, France Time:06/04/2014 Psychogeography (Chtcheglov): Historica...

[dusty places]: Charcuterie in Toulon sur Arroux

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The charcuterie business is still anchored in the countryside village life. Going to the specialist (say charcuterie) and not to the generalist (say supermarket). Personal contact and confidence in t...

[dusty places]: Cayeux sur Mer, Casino; 50s in northern France

tragic

This small balnear station in the picardie departement is a fabuleux example of post war architecture in france. Belle epoque style vanished largely to make place for a modern, no pretentious architec...