The EDF tower of Cergy Pontoise was built in 1974 by the architects Renzo Moro and Guy Lagneau. It is the tallest building in the Val d'Oise. It is 86m high and 14 floors. From innovative design, is one of the first buildings in France to have a structure irrigated. The building is constructed with water-filled tubes which protects it in case of fire.

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The Brussels courthouse was designed by architect Joseph Poelaert. Opened October 15, 1883. It was the time one of the biggest buildings in the world. Today, it is always the largest courthouse in the world. It dominates the city.

The bigest statue of the justice palace, in the very front of the main building.

The sandstone is a soft rock found throughout the Lower Dauphiné, where it is often the only building stone. This underground quarry is one of the major mining sites in the Drôme.Exploitées since ancient times, these quarries supplied the materials to major projects such as the medieval cathedral of Valencia College Saint-Barnard de Romans. Still used for the construction of the Canal de la Bourne in 1877, molasses is used less and less irreversibly from that time, mainly because of competition from cement.

One of the building changing rooms of the Renault factory. One per floor, for hundreds of workers.

In the tallest building was the assembling of vehicles. On the right, under the siren, the locker rooms of the workers.

Like many industrial buildings, the warehouses of the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce and Industry) have been constructed to withstand heavy loads. Both buildings have followed the trend of increasing concrete, early twentieth century. In the manner of some cathedrals, the lower floors boast a strong and massive concrete pillars whose diameter decreases gradually with height in stages. This is especially evident when one observes the facade from below.

Originally, these warehouses were used to store grain and flour. In taking possession in 1929, the ICC enjoys a strategic investment (The Ourcq channel, railway) and modernized the building to add elevators, more capable than the old mobile cranes to the variety of Goods transiting.

Note: This building was the setting for the movie Dobermann by Jan Kounen (nightclub on the docks).

This building is full of rail. I like it!

The Church of St. Augustine (Paris) has been built under the direction of Victor Baltard between 1860 and 1871. The land for the building is small, so they used a metal structure for the building. The advantage of this kind of construction is the absence of flying buttresses. That was the first time a great building was built with a metal structure. The land also not having a rectangular shape, wich is why the church is trapezoidal, with a narrow face and a much larger chorus. It measures about 100m long and rises to 80m high.

Under the buildings of the faculty.