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Explorations Architecture

Faubourg Poissonnière, Paris

🥬The cauliflower balconies nod to the former sauerkraut factory on this site
🏗️Locals call it 'the salad grater' or 'the cauliflower'

Gérard Grandval's 1970s utopian vision looks like a spaceship landed in the suburbs. Ten curved towers ring a central courtyard, their cauliflower-shaped balconies reaching toward the sky in a playful nod to the sauerkraut factory that once stood here.

Brutalist residential complex
Organic 1970s architecture
Cauliflower-shaped balconies
Utopian design vision
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