SAINT-QUENTIN-DES-SOURCES CHURCH
Church completed in 1992 by Michel Euvé, glazed façade, simple geometry ...Read more
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES
A museum telling the unique story of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and its ...Read more
THE ARCADES OF THE LAKE AND THE VIADUCT
Read moreThe «Arcades du Lac» and the «Viaduct», two sets of dwellings, were born from the imagination of the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill, and were erected between 1972 and 1980 in the district of Sourderie. Their release from land then paid the column and made a lot of ink, outrage or enthusiasm. The architect Ricardo Bofill is part of the post-modern current born in the late 1960 s, in response to the modern movement represented by Le Corbusier, and to a certain uniformity that limits architecture to functionality. These two sets, which revolutionized the idea of collective and social housing, are composed of a series of small concrete housing complexes: The Arcades, designed as a French garden, have 74 apartments, the Viaduct, nicknamed the "Versailles of the people", comprises 220 apartments. They are located along the Artificiel artificial Basin - a mirror for the Viaduct - and today offer interesting testimony of the post-modern architectural current.