# CHANDIGARH /// Secretariat

Chandigarh's Secretariat is one of the three administrative buildings Le Corbusier designed in the 50's for Penjab and Harraynah provinces' Capitole. Despite its massive and austere aspect, the roof is amusing to see since it has been appropriated by plants and soldiers' laundry. On the two sides of the buildings (it is so long, we can assume there are only two sides !), two monumental ramps have been constructed and allow one to access any storey.

# SEA /// Atlantikwall

Atlantikwall/ mur de l'Atlantique/ Atlantic wall was the german sea side protection from allied attack from 1941 to 1945.( more here )Following I'll show you some of the amazing concrete bunkers/blochaus that have been built by the german Army to protect the coast from Norway to France.Today most of this buildings are crumbling into parts, or sinking in the beach sand...-I made a special SEA thematic selection with only sinking bunkers.More here, here and hereThe best book ever about those bunkers is famous Bunker archeology of Paul Virilio.the map of the Atlantic wall

# SEA /// the jetty /the pier between Earth and Sea

Malibu pier (CA)The jetty/ the pier between earth and sea is an architectural icone.Following is a serie of pictures of pier, jetty, warf that are pretty impressive.Those examples are mostly in Califonia, France or England. Those construction are made of wood, steel , cast iron or concrete they have been build for fishing, leisure, or promenade and each of it is carrying by his style and his materiality the memory of his time.(any other proposition of cool piers are welcome to enlarge this post!)here you can see "La jetée", the short movie of Chris Markermore about UK's pierSanta monica Pier. (CA)Hermosa beach's pier (CA)Manhattan beach's Pier.Fécamp (FR)Brighton west pier (UK)Brighton Palace Pier (UK) the last of the three Pier of brighton still standing over the water.Blankenberge (BE)Trouville (FR)St Annes pier, (UK)Clevedon Pier (UK)Ostend (BE)Imperial Beach Pier in San Diego (US)

# American Theaters by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre are photographers who released a serie about those american theaters built in the beginning of the XXth century which function evoluated depending on the society's needs and sometimes even became ruins.Here is their presentation text:

In the early 20th century, following the development of the entertainment industry,hundreds of auditoriums were built everywhere in North America. Major entertainment firms and movie studios commissioned specialized architects to build grandiose and extravagant theaters. From the 60's, TV, multiplexes and urban crisis made them becoming obsolete. During the following decades, when they were not modernized or transformed into adult cinemas, they closed one after the other and many of them were simply demolished. Those which remain forgotten, escaping from this fate, were converted to varied purposes. Now, many are reused as churches, retail, flea markets, bingo halls, discos, supermarkets or warehouses. Some others just sit abandoned.

# AHMEDABAD /// Lost Buckie

Few people might know that but Ahmedabad hosts a Geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller and which has been collapsing since then. Ruins are nevertheless still use and represent an interesting example of architecture of destruction.

# AHMEDABAD /// Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management

Indian Institute of Management designed by Louis Kahn in 1963. To see more, and it may sounds cliche but watch the very good movie My Architect by Nathanel Kahn.

# AHMEDABAD /// Corbu colonized by monkeys

The Ahmedabad Millowners Association Building was designed in 1952 by Le Corbusier. This building is not really used anymore, except by architecture amateurs who still visit it and...monkeys who seem to have so much appropriated themselves the top floor of the building that they are ready to fight if you cross their territory !