Rotonde de la Villette Design

Canal St-Martin went underground again in the place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, which is dominated by the Neoclassical Rotonde de la Villette, with a porch and pediments overcome by a rotunda. This is one of the toll house was designed by the architect Ledoux as part of the scheme of Louis XVI tax all goods entering the city. At that moment, every road out of town heading to customs, or Barriere, connected by a wall of six-meter-high, known as "Le Mur des Fermiers-Généraux" - a major irritant in the term-up to the French Revolution. Backing the toll house is an elegant air strain métro, Neoclassical and supported by iron pillars.

Paris Metro Architecture

Paris Metro Architecture
Built like the Crystal Palace of interchangeable, prefabricated cast iron and glass parts, Guimard created the métro system in opposition to the ruling taste of French classical culture ... Guimard system is developed, appeared overnight like the manifestation of the organic strength, the winding green cast-iron tentacles erupting from the subterranean labyrinth to support a variety of barriers, pergolas, maps, hooded light fittings and glass canopy. dragonfly's this wings' surrealistic "-to quote a contemporary critic-received a mixture, not to say chauvinistic, press, color verdigris iron their support because it is considered as a German than French. attempt imaginatively to create a myth of magic in terms of modern it must be complemented later by forms technical substance of the elevated section of the métro, built to the design of the architect Jean-Camille and engineer of Louis Formigé Biette.