Thank God it's weekend:
Usine Renault de l'Ile Seguin
The 27 acres Seguin island in the river Seine at Boulogne-Billancourt in the western outskirts of Paris has been home to a most fascinating factory building: a Renault plant that covered the entire island. Dating back to 1920, it is currently facing teardown after it has been closed down in 1993 and dormant since then until earlier this year. Between March and June, the western half of the island has already been cleared, the other half will follow soon, giving way to, among other things, the Fondation d'Art Contemporain Francois Pinault. Jean-Christophe Ballot's and Pierre Giro's photography covers this massive facility; one Christophe compiled more photos, the Boulogne-Billancourt official site has teardown shots (1, 2, 3); Floornature, Casa Brutus and peripheries.net have stories. Related: Photographing Ruins by Shaun O'Boyle
America is...
Allen Murabayashi's America Is ... travelogue photography could make it into NG - he is "a freelance photojournalist traveling across the US on a mission to hit all 48 contiguous states"
Building the Suburban Dream
"The brainchild of developer William J. Levitt, Levittown, Pennsylvania was the largest planned community constructed by a single builder in the United States. By the time it was completed in 1958, the development included [...] 17,311 single-family homes. [...] This exhibit explores the early history of Levittown from the perspective of those who built and lived the suburban dream." (via Coudal)
St Pancras Virtual Tour
We hit London's St Pancras station briefly last spring while en route to Holloway Road. It has been dark outside, we've had a train to catch at King's Cross and most of the building had been converted into a construction site - but
it's magnificence and vintage charme caught me on the spot, so Jonathan Hall's St Pancras Virtual Tour comes just right
Tempelhof is the mother of all airports
says Norman Foster. One of the world's three largest buildings, shown in The Truman Presidential Museum and Library Airbridge to Berlin photo collection
And in PDF Magazines
I love PDF Magazins. I want large glossy prints of all Büro am Meer PDF Mag issues. Most excellent portrait photography in issues 23, 19, 16 and others (PDF links)
