50 Wonders | Simon Allford: Notre-Dame de Raincy
The new president of the RIBA shares his choice for our 50th birthday series, #BD50Wonders
Wonder: Notre-Dame de Raincy, France
Architect: Auguste Perret
Nominator: Simon Allford
I was brought up surrounded by the architects who were imagining and building the Brave New World. For over a decade my father, inspired by Auguste Perret, pursued (un-cut!) White Tile Modernism. Somewhat inevitably one of my earliest architectural pilgrimages was to Perret’s 25 Bis Rue Franklin apartment block – a project I still reference.
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