Paris Street Corner with Haussmann Architecture and La Défense Skyline

4 October 2017 · Paris

A quiet street corner in Paris where Haussmann-era architecture holds the foreground and La Défense towers push through the trees behind it. Red-leafed maples line the pavement beside a bus shelter on a wide boulevard — the two Parises, old and new, sharing the same frame under an autumn sky. Street furniture, iron railings, and pale limestone facades do the ordinary work of a city going about its day.