Oxidised Copper Facade with Garden Foreground, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

A mid-century institutional building in Paris, its facade clad in oxidised copper and terracotta panels divided by a grid of louvred wooden shutters. The patina runs deep — years of weathering have pushed the cladding toward rust and ochre, giving the flat horizontal ribbon windows a frame that earns its age. Out front, a garden trellis wound with climbing ivy and a cluster of yellow rudbeckia pull the composition forward. The building is the architecture; the garden is the argument for it.