White Roses Against a Contemporary Paris Residential Block

5 October 2017 · Paris

A dense bank of white roses pushes up against the base of a contemporary residential building in Paris — brick, render, and dark cladding stacked in layers above the hedgerow. The overcast sky holds the palette flat, letting the white blooms and the warm terracotta panels do the work against each other. Urban greenery and residential architecture rarely share a frame on equal terms; here, neither quite gives way to the other.