Layered Brick Facades, Paris Rear Courtyard

5 October 2017 · Paris

Parisian apartment buildings press against each other in a rear courtyard, their brick facades stacked at competing angles behind a dense hedge. Decorative red-brick banding runs across the central block; wrought iron balconies punctuate each floor; a dark rubble-stone party wall at right anchors the whole composition against a flat, overcast sky. The buildings share walls and centuries — each facade a different era of the same street.