Paris Boulevard Traffic Jam at a Haussmann Corner

3 October 2017 · Paris

Heavy traffic backs up along a Paris boulevard, cars queued past a construction hoarding plastered with archival images. Behind the standstill, a classic Haussmann-era building rounds a corner under a wide autumn sky — the kind of blue that shows up only between cloud fronts. Urban congestion is the subject here; the architecture manages to hold its ground anyway, composed and unhurried above the gridlock.