Secrets of Belleville
France, Belleville - a textbook example of Soviet brutalist architecture is still home to the headquarters of the French communist party. The Communist party was founded in 1920 and was once the largest French left-wing party in the country. They only dropped the hammer & sickle symbol from their membership cards in 2013. today the building actually serves more as a leftist cultural and exhibition center, and you can even rent it out for events and soirées.
More than half century after construction, Montreal's Habitat 67 still captivates
MONTREAL – Surrounded by river and silhouetted against a blue sky, the futuristic stacked concrete cubes of Montreal's Habitat 67 jut out of the landscape like a child's building-block project brought to life. More than 50 years after Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie built the 12-storey, 354-cube residential housing complex for the Expo 67 World's Fair, it remains one of the city's most recognizable, and divisive landmarks. While some have criticized the brutalist concrete architecture an
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