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Monday, October 5, 2020

Piscine Municipale/Piscine du Cours de la Republique, 1937, Le Havre, Normandy, France


This absolutely gorgeous frontage belonging to the public swimming pool in Le Havre is another miraculous survivor of WWII in this city that was mostly reduced to rubble by bombing and shelling. The pool's website is here in French:





 Photos taken 5th May, 2018.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Palazzo delle Poste di Palermo, 1920s, Palermo, Italy


Sitting on a bus going along Via Roma in Palermo, the visitor cannot help but be impressed by the sight of the magnificent post office. According to Isabelle Lomholt on e-architect, the post office "is a large rationalist building designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni in the early 1920s. The style of the building is typical of the fascist period whilst the interiors are futuristic, one of the few intact examples of the time, with frescoes by Benedetta Cappa, wife of Marinetti." The pictures below will take you on a tour, mostly of the exterior.