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𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
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𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘦.

Where to next?

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝗋𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝗀𝗋 𝗂𝗂𝗂𝗑.

#france #roadtripphotography #ricohgrus #bnw_demand #griiix taken in Autoroute by @coloursbehind

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𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘦.

Coming or leaving?

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝗋𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝗀𝗋 𝗂𝗂𝗂𝗑.

#biarritz #shootGR_biarritz #ricohgrus #bnw_demand #spfyourshot by @coloursbehind

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𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘯.

Somewhere between rescue post and moon base.

A fragment of coastal optimism from an age that believed the future could be designed - while the ferry slips through, carrying the present with it.

#royan #royanarchitecture #midcenturyarchitecture #shootGR_Royan #ricohgrus taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘶𝘯.

A monument to a new beginning.

Notre-Dame de Royan, begun in 1955 by Guillaume Gillet, rises from reinforced concrete - severe, vertical and unmistakably modern.

#royan #notredamederoyan #modernistarchitecture #shootGR_Royan #ricohgrus taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘳𝘦̂𝘷𝘦.

A future meant to be lived in.

Royan was rebuilt around the idea of beginning again - and somehow, everyday life still carries a trace of that promise

#royan #royanarchitecture #midcenturyarchitecture #shootGR_Royan #ricohgrus taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘯.

Built for the sun.

Its stepped silhouette opens the building to terraces, air and changing views - a vertical way of living attuned to the coast.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#bnw_demand #ricohgrus #shootGR_Royan #architecturephotography #modernistarchitecture taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘶𝘯.

A little orbit above the Atlantic.

A circle above, a horizon below - even the smallest architectural detail seems to echo the sea.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#bnw_demand #ricohgrus #shootGR_Royan #architecturephotography #modernistarchitecture taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘳𝘦̂𝘷𝘦.

Drawn like a wave.

Here, modernism bends with the coastline - less monument, more movement.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#bnw_demand #ricohgrus #shootGR_Royan #architecturephotography #modernistarchitecture taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘯.

Music for the eyes.

Arriving by ferry from the wide Atlantic beaches — lined with wooden cabins and Belle Époque bathing houses — this burst of colour feels almost Floridian, setting the tone for a city shaped by lightness, leisure and seaside joy.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#royan #frenchmodernism #midcenturyarchitecture #architecturephotography #coloursbehindproject taken in Royan by @coloursbehind

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7 days ago

𝘶𝘯.

A pause from the future.

Royan’s 50s modernism sometimes feels less like architecture than a vision of tomorrow - rounded, weightless, almost extraterrestrial.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#royan #frenchmodernism #midcenturyarchitecture #architecturephotography #coloursbehindproject taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘳𝘦̂𝘷𝘦.

Summer written in lines.

Balconies, shutters and striped awnings turn Royan’s post-war architecture into a rhythm of colour and white space.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#royan #frenchmodernism #midcenturyarchitecture #architecturephotography #coloursbehindproject taken in Royan Atlantique by @coloursbehind

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𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘯.

Modernism shaped by memory.

After the destruction of 1945, Brazilian modernism shaped a new Royan - open, sculptural and unmistakably of its time.

𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝗒 𝖱𝗂𝖼𝗈𝗁 𝖦𝖱 𝖨𝖨𝖨𝗑.

#royan #modernism #midcenturyarchitecture #architecturephotography #coloursbehindproject taken in Royan, Region Nouvelle Aquitaine,france by @coloursbehind

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