Haussmann Residential Block on a Paris Boulevard

3 October 2017 · Paris

A Haussmann-era residential block anchors the left edge of the frame, its ochre facade stacked with balconies and shuttered windows in the afternoon sun. The boulevard recedes to the right, lamp posts arcing into open air, mature plane trees lining the carriageway. Deep blue sky and a cumulus cloud mass fill the upper two-thirds — the architecture holds the ground while the sky takes the rest. Paris at its most structurally legible.