UNCONVENTIONAL AND AMAZING HOUSES

French living spaces are typically a house that often has 2 floors and lots of windows for each room with various colors and a very nice outlook and a roof of tiles, mean while the houses of the XVIII century are more tall families would live in the same space for long time and where more squared than the modern houses.

 

 

 

 

Arc de Triomphe

 

 

 

 

Located on the Avenue Champs Elysees in Paris, is a neoclassical monument commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806, to commemorate the military victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean-Francois Chalgrin, has a height of 51 meters and a width of 45. His entire construction was completed in the 1830s.

 

Building in Strasbourg

 

 

 

 

 Colombage type houses, typical of the architecture in Strasbourg, construction technique with traditional wood region, Alsace, France.

 Eiffel Tower

 

 

 

The Eiffel Tower, is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ  de Mars  in Paris,

 The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower is 324 metres tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building.+

 

 

Châteaus

 










  Is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions

 

 Chaumière

 

 

 

 

 It is a traditional farmhouse in western Europe. Named after its roof, covered with chaume (straw of wheat or rye, or stems of reeds). In France it is, above all, in Normandy and Brière.
Currently chaumière word is also used to refer to a family home or just an old farmhouse.
This type of construction is given in several European countries: UK, Germany, etc.