Paris / Parc des Buttes Chaumont on Street View

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The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont  is a public park situated in northeast of Paris, in the 19th arrondissement. Occupying 24.7 hectares, it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, the Bois de Boulogne, the Parc de la Villette, and the Tuileries Garden. It was opened in 1867, late in the regime of Emperor Napoleon III, and was built by Jean-Charles Alphand, who created all the major parks of Napoleon III. The most famous feature of the park is the Temple de la Sibylle, inspired by the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy, perched at the top of a cliff thirty metres above the waters of the artificial lake.

Stroo - Metro de Paris

Metro de Paris from Stroo

Images by Daniele Vella - vimeo.com/velladaniele
Songs: Everything Everything - Cough Cough / Everything Everything - Cough Cough (Xaphoon Remix)

Claire & Max - Projet Hypocentre

hypocentre -short film- from Claire&Max on Vimeo.

Discoverlust - Paris by Bicycle

Dicoverlust has an interesting video channel on You Tube that i can highly recommend. One of the sets is bicycle ride trough Paris streets with 3 cameras that in the right pace bring to you the feel of the city. 

Serveurperso - Paris Flight TINY Hexacopter Drone

Mayeul Akpovi - Paris in Motion

Paris In Motion (Part I) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
Timelapse and Stopmotion Photography. 3000 pictures in 5 days.

Music: Massive Attack / Angel

Paris In Motion (Part II) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
Facebook: http://facebook.com/mayeul.akpovi

Paris In Motion (Part II) - Timelapse Photography - 3500 pictures & You can realy enjoy it !

Music:  Massive Attack / Teardrop : http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/mezzanine/id17641181
Massive Attack website : http://massiveattack.com

Mayeul Akpovi Photographies - http://mayeul.com

Making Of - Paris In Motion from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.

Deconstructed Paris trough Street View?

Given a large repository of geotagged imagery provided by Google Street View, five scholars from Carnegie Mellon and the École normale supérieure found local visual elements, such as street signs, windows, or balconies, that are most distinctive for a given locale, such as the city of Paris.


Carl Doersch
Saurabh Singh
Abhinav Gupta
Josef Sivic
Alexei A. Efros

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/

Tiago Ribeiro - À Grande e à Francesa

Tiago Ribeiro - À Grande e à Francesa 
 Music(a): A Quai by Yann Tiersen

Television Headquarters

While CCTV Headquarter is widely famous for OMA's iconic building here is how other television comapnies' headquarters look like.

CNN

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BBC

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Pavillon-Arsenal, Paris

Paris, Guided Tour #00 - Introduction by Pavillon-Arsenal

http://www.pavillon-arsenal.com

Created in 1988 the Pavillon de l’Arsenal is the centre for information, documentation and exhibition for urban planning and architecture of Paris. It is a unique place, where information concerning urban development and architectural realisations in Paris is available to everyone.

The main activities of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal are to exhibit Parisian architecture and urban-planning; to give visitors the most accurate documentation possible; to publish reference books on topics affecting the day-to-day life of Parisians and to provide a forum for the individuals and authorities involved in shaping the city.

The Pavillon de l’Arsenal aims to allow a large public to understand the evolution of Paris and its projects. In order to preserve the balance of the Parisian cityscape, today’s planners must use an urbanism centred on proximity issues involving dialogue and concerted actions.

The main hall of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal presents three types of exhibition.
On the ground floor, the permanent exhibition « Paris a guided Tour; the city, past and present » explains on 800 sqm the architecture of the city and shows how Paris was built over the centuries as well as its actual and future projects on various scales, from the Parisian metropolis, through the city, the neighbourhood, to the street.

The 1st floor welcomes on 600 sqm three main temporary exhibitions a year, centred on a particular theme. The thematic approach is diverse: the architecture of the concrete, housing in Paris, the Paris of Haussmann, the Paris of private homes, or more recently the 454 projects for Paris 2012. Since it’s opening the Pavillon de l’Arsenal has presented more than forty exhibitions to the public.

Topical galleries, exhibitions dedicated to French and international architecture are organised on the two galleries situated on the second floor.

In addition to this, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal proposes to the public a documentation centre, a photographic library, a bookshop-boutique, a newspaper bar and a video library.

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Pavillon de l'Arsenal also has Dailymotion page with more then 30 short movies on the development and architecture of Paris

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From the plaster model of Paris built on a 1/2000 scale in the 1990s to the digital model enabling visitors to truly discover the area.

Paris Timelapses

Two great Paris timelapses: the first covers everything while the other focuses on the details.

Wip and Co - Paris Sightseeing Tours

- Place de la Bastille - Place Saint-Paul - Palais du Louvre @ Rue de Rivoli - Place de la Concorde - Ave des Champs-Elysées - Arc de Triomphe @ Place Charles de Gaulle-Etoile - Ave de la Grande Armée - Palais des congrès @ Place de la Porte Maillot

- Porte Dauphine - Avenue Foch - Arc de Triomphe @Place Charles de Gaulle-Etoile - Avenue Kléber - Trocadero - Iena Bridge - Eiffel Tower

- Quai Branly - Alma - Invalides - Pont Alexandre III (Bridge) - Grand Palais - Avenue des Champs-Elysées - Concorde - Assemblée Nationale - Boulevard Saint-Germain - Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Wip and Co - A Walk Trough Paris

Wip and Co

Walking through Paris, from Saint-Michel, Latin Quarter to Place des Vosges, Le Marais.

Taken between 9:30 and 10:30am, so there are not many people in the street.

Music : Johnny B. Goode, by Chuck Berry

Starting in Rue Gît-le-Coeur
0:12 - rue Saint-André-des-Arts
0:17 - place Saint-Michel
0:19 - Saint-Michel Fountain
0:25 - rue de la Huchette
0:32 - rue du Chat qui Pêche
0:34 - quai Saint-Michel
0:38 - Petit Pont
0:44 - parvis de Notre-Dame
0:48 - Notre-Dame Cathedral
0:53 - rue du Cloître Notre-Dame
1:12 - pont Saint-Louis
1:13 - City Hall
1:18 - rue Jean du Bellay
1:22 - pont Louis Philippe
1:39 - rue des Barres
1:48 - place Baudoyer
1:54 - rue du Roi de Sicile
2:13 - place Saint-Paul
2:20 - rue Saint-Antoine
2:28 - inside Hôtel de Sully
2:34 - place des Vosges

made out of 667 photos

BIG + OFF - The Research Centre of the University of Jussieu, Paris

The video for the Research Centre of the University of Jussieu, the competition winning design by BIG and OFF architects. The new multidisciplinary research centre, Paris PARC, located between Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe and the open green park of the Jussieu Campus will become a significant addition to the campus, strengthening the international appeal and openness of the leading French University for Science and Medicine.

As a form of urban experiment the Paris PARC is the imprint of the pressures of its urban context. Wedged into a super dense context – in terms of space, public flows and architectural history – the PARC is conceived as a chain of reactions to the various external and internal forces acting upon it. Inflated to allow daylight and air to enter into the heart of the facility, compressed to ensure daylight and views for the neighboring classrooms and dormitories, lifted and decompressed to allow the public to enter from both plaza and park and finally tilted to reflect the spectacular view of the Paris skyline and the Notre Dame to the Parisians.

Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye, Poissy, France

Film by Onnis Luque 

Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [sa'vwa]) is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931.^[3]

A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is representative of the bases of modern architecture, and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of the International style.

Originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family, the house fell into disuse after 1940, and entered a state of disrepair during World War II. It passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 (a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time). It was thoroughly renovated from 1985 to 1997, and under the care of the Centre des monuments nationaux, the refurbished house is now open to visitors year-round.^[4] [5]

Paris Squares

We start with my favorite Place de la Bastille and continue with Place de la Concode, Place Charles de Gaulle and finally Place de la Nation. Enjoy!

Place de la Bastille

The square straddles 3 arrondissements of Paris, namely the 4th, 11th and 12th. The square and its surrounding areas are normally called simply Bastille.

The July Column (Colonne de Juillet) which commemorates the events of the July Revolution(1830) stands at the center of the square. Other notable features include the Bastille Opera, theBastille subway station and a section of the Canal Saint Martin. Prior to 1984, the formerBastille railway station stood where the opera house now stands.

The square is often home to concerts and similar events. The north-eastern area of Bastille is busy at night due to many cafés, bars, night clubs, and concert halls.

As a consequence of its historical significance, the square is often used for political demonstrations, including the massive anti-CPE demonstration of 28 March 2006.

Sarah Klein and Tom Mason - Sub Cities

A films by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason
Concept by Jennifer McClory


A series that explores that moment of uncertainty and magic that happens when you emerge from the depths of the subway system.

© Redglass Pictures 2011, redglasspictures.com

Paris

Music by Duke Ellington

"Three years ago in Paris I got out of a "metro" train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face... I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion." - Ezra Pound

New York City

Music by Erik Satie