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Pigeon Houses in France | Aussie in France
Some are quite elaborate.



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This one is very close to Sauze Vaussais near to where I live...


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Finale one a mobile one during the World War 1

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Those images didn't occur to me, Dianne - I thought (right-hand side of building) of a woman in a headscarf. Most dramatic modern buildings get a nickname, don't they? In London they have "The Gerkin" and "The Walkie-Talkie". I'd say that it's a credit to Zaha Hadid's design that we can't decide what nickname to give it. Well done, ZH :clap:

That's a great building! Very unusual looking, even though the geometry isn't that complicated. I wonder if the guy who designed Mexico City's "Monument to the Revolution" visited your bird-house first:-

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Frankly, of the two, I prefer the bird-house.
I also liked your photo of the bus, especially the pigeon on the guy's head! Strange concept, strange vehicle.
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Prompted by a conversation with Batlord about how attractive bare brick can be, I though about houses like this that you can often see in England:-

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It's an object lesson in how to ruin a whole terrace of houses by not honouring the original material. The house owner clearly never absorbed the message of Bertrand Russell's comment on educating children: "You can't turn a cabbage into a rose, but you can turn it into a good cabbage."

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, opened in 1876, demolished in 2015. Even the main entrance block (the Kirkbride Building) with its many columns has gone, thanks to:-
...which makes this footage one of the best ways to see this complex of buildings. (According to wiki, "the base of this building was the alleged largest continuous foundation in the United States from the time it was built until it was surpassed by the Pentagon in 1943", which is admittedly grasping at straws to get yourself into the record books.)


At its peak it housed over 7,000 patients - the most famous being Woody Guthrie who was there for 6 years. The Guthrie family put BDylan on the Permitted Visitors list, and the 19-year old Bob became a regular visitor and friend to Woody during his declining years.

The US has never fought off an invasive war on its own territory, so it's lucky to have governors like Christie who are helping to destroy the USA's heritage without the inconvenience of an invading army.

Careful, Lisna. You might get someone to go, "Oh, yeah, what about the commies who are destroying American heritage by taking down Confederate statues?"

^ HaHa! There was a debate about Confederate statues here a few years back. At first I took the position that "They're history, they should be left in place," but Janzoon convinced me otherwise, explaining that they celebrate an oppression that many Americans find offensive. I think many have now been transferred to museums where their presence is less "in your face".

Isn't it a little early in the morning to be talking about gothic architecture?

:laughing: Anytime is the right time for gothic architecture, Tristan!!

We had a controversy about it here in Baltimore too and I was initially on the fence about it as well. I think the George Floyd incident really changed a lot of minds in the US though. Yes, most of the statues have either have been sent, or are being sent, to museums, or, in a few cases, destroyed.