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Nancy, France
The lovely centre of Nancy has several buildings from the middle - and the modern age.
Place Stanislas, Place d´Alliance and the Place de la Carrière are worth a visit; you can find them on the UNESCO list of World cultural heritages.
These squares are designed by the architect Emmanuel Héré in the style of french king´s squares. The style of the facades is unifomed as a symbol of the central monarch.
Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Three Galleries are crossing and swapping in different heights. In the centre of the building is a 77m high pylon as an hommage to the first Centre Pompidou (1977). The whole construction is out of wood; the walls and the roof are white.
The architects Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines have designed the roof remembering of a chinese hat.
Normandie, France
This beautiful region in the North of France is not that famous for it´s architecture. But it is worth a visit anyway. While traveling through it you can discover very good architectural examples. Those old french farm houses sometimes seem to belong to the landscape as if they had been there always.
In le Havre, a city nearby the Atlantic, there are also very nice architectural works. For example the cultural centre of the city, designed by Oscar Niemeyer and a church out of concrete, a masterpiece from Auguste Perret.
Les églises de la Normandie, France
During the two weeks, that I have spent in the Normandy, I´ve viseted so many wonderful churches, cathedrals and chapels.
Many of them were built in the gothic style with very high naves and absolutely exact details.
There was also one modern church out of concrete in Le Havre. In it´s interior there was an unexpecting colourful light that made it as gracefully as the old gothic ones.