Apartments, Avenue Foch, Le Havre, Normandy, France

Detail of the facade of an apartment block on the corner of Avenue Foch and Rue Sery, designed by Auguste Perret, 1874-1954, who led the reconstruction of Le Havre in the 1950s, after the town was completely destroyed in WWII, Le Havre, Normandy, France. The relief sculpture, 1953, is by Jean-Marie Baumel and his wife Marthe Schwenck, and shows a man in classical style playing a lyre representing Music, with inscribed names of artists, Andre Caplet, Pierre Beauvalet, Pierre Maumont and Henry Woollett. Avenue Foch is one of the widest avenues in Europe and forms part of the Monumental Triangle at the heart of Le Havre's reconstruction plans. The centre of Le Havre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13435313

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45141143

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7087px x 4564px (9.9MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen