I lived in Saint Quentin for a year. There is a university, a mall, and a lot of business offices so it's busy during the day and you can't really notice it, but after 9PM everybody leave the city, shops are closed and you're pretty much left alone. It's a very eerie feeling, almost like living inside an empty Disney world.
Wow, Fantastic. I've been to a few of these projects but some are too far away and I had limited time. I would have loved to see this one. Not all architecture has to be a bubbly happy luxurious gesture. These places have a strong impact. We can feel overpowered by a place but also co-exist with it spiritually
Those buildings were designed by Ricardo Bofill, a Spanish architect who also designed similar buildings in Montpellier, France. The neo classical style, while being suitable to office or administrative compounds, don't fit the needs of social housing. As a result, the Abraxas neighbourhood turned out to be a urban slump plagued with crimes. The safety had been improved recently but, as rightly pointed at by some in this footage, it remains a dystopia. A very angst prone environment not recommended to claustrophobic.
paradoxically, in Montpellier, it's just the opposite. there are often people, shops, but it's peaceful because it's much bigger, and on top of that a few minutes walk from the city center.
The place, as beautiful as it can be for people, is subject to the worst things created by the rise of insecurity and mass immigration in France and Europe
The brutalism of depressing soviet buildings is expressed in this place. There´s no harmony with the beauty of french architecture, only monstrosity expressed in so many ways. People are loosing their aesthetical perception, wich can easily be replaced by the exaltation of the ugliness, without even noticing.
@@FRSkyLaw L'immigration a bon dos, n'oublie pas de dire à nos amis anglophones que c'est l'immigration qui a reconstruit la France à l'après guerre et c'est encore l'immigration qui accepte les métiers que les "vrais" français ne veulent pas faire.
When I worked at Disneyland Paris I lived there for a couple of months, on the top floors, they’re not actually flats they are two floors it was a very bizarre place like a film set but always seemed quiet coz it was so big
Antoine Leclerc wow! Really it should stay ! U.S would love these they would make them into condos like they doing everything else in lower income housing projects
Not our heritage at all. This ugly place is inspired on communism and the depressive brutalism of soviet buildings. Decay and lack of good aesthetical perception is not part of french culture, at all. That is just a sad ode to collectivism and the poverty that it drags.
Whats interesting to me is when these people say they like to live there and do not want to move. Here in Malmö, where I live, everybody I know always wants to move to a bigger, nicer, more expensive place in a more attractive neighbourhood and sell their previous place at a profit. Thats a sort of survival tactic, where you secure money to save up for the future, but to me it feels better to stay at a place you like or at the very least make it better and find some comfort there. After all, that’s what home is, right? Where you’re ”at home” and feel the most comfortable?
Hermoso. Sencillamente hermoso. Notable. Me inspira mucha paz. Me gustaría ver el interior de los apartamentos...Pero la atmósfera que evoca es increíble.
People are loosing their good aesthetical perception, wich can easily be replaced by the exaltation of the ugliness, without even noticing. This complex reminds me the brutalism of depressing soviet buildings. There´s no harmony with the beauty of french architecture, only monstrosity expressed in so many ways.
This video is why main stream media is dying. Found this video trying to find out about this building etc. Got a video with a few people talking about living there. nothing about its history, statistics. I know if I go to a non MSM video I'll get tons more info in half the time. Useless.
No we don't have much gated communities in France. This city is part of Marne la Vallée Ville Nouvelle (New Town) project. It is a 20km urban strip that spreads along the Marne River and the RER A line. From Paris close suburbs to the farthest Disneyland area. The architectural evolution from west to east is quite interesting.
The other one is in the Yvelines ( Saint Quentin ) near Versailles west of Paris so you could visit both. I've lived there for a year and it's pretty civilized ( universities, mall, offices etc. ) and never had a problem. Generally speaking, the west of Paris is civilized and wealthier than the east. The other one in Noisy-le-Grand, you don't want a go ( especially as a tourist ) because it's west of Paris in the middle of nowhere and it's mostly savages, drugs and criminality, everybody here knows that. Here is what it looks like from the standpoint of criminality ( mind you this is not a movie ) ruclips.net/video/XjmMauUFVBE/видео.html On the other hand, maybe they are proud of the attention they get with the movies and stuff and they don't give tourists a hard time, but generally speaking it's a bad idea😂
The brutalism of depressing soviet buildings is expressed in this place and has become a stinky ghetto with talent for crime spread. These are not the values of french people. This is just collectivism/communism and their fruits.
Good document :) but you didn't mentioned about the name of the author of these projects .It' s really important :/ I would be grateful ,if you could change that :) I am an architecture student and I really appreciate his creativeness.
People are loosing their aesthetical perception, wich can easily be replaced by the exaltation of the ugliness, without even noticing. This is the expression of the depressive brutalism of soviet buildings and the spanish architect who made it was a communist and do not represent the ideal of french people of beauty, liberty and harmony, just empoverishment trought chaos for domination. This place should be just demolished.
@@rameses1979 This is not art, just the destruction of beauty and freedom ideals of french people through a poor, ugly and useless aesthetic, since it is inspired by a depressive soviet brutalism.
This is an exaltation of the brutalism of soviet buildings. There´s no harmony with the beauty of french architecture, just the dystopian communist "ideal" of a man with bad taste and someone else's money to spend and a break with reality. Such an ugly and bizarre place should just be demolished.😑
Not a single view of the inside of the building or what it's actually like living there. Could have done without the misleading title, NBC News.
Absolutely beautiful. Everything about this video.
I lived in Saint Quentin for a year.
There is a university, a mall, and a lot of business offices so it's busy during the day and you can't really notice it, but after 9PM everybody leave the city, shops are closed and you're pretty much left alone.
It's a very eerie feeling, almost like living inside an empty Disney world.
Wow, Fantastic. I've been to a few of these projects but some are too far away and I had limited time. I would have loved to see this one. Not all architecture has to be a bubbly happy luxurious gesture. These places have a strong impact. We can feel overpowered by a place but also co-exist with it spiritually
Swap with someone who lives there then.
Those buildings were designed by Ricardo Bofill, a Spanish architect who also designed similar buildings in Montpellier, France.
The neo classical style, while being suitable to office or administrative compounds, don't fit the needs of social housing. As a result, the Abraxas neighbourhood turned out to be a urban slump plagued with crimes. The safety had been improved recently but, as rightly pointed at by some in this footage, it remains a dystopia. A very angst prone environment not recommended to claustrophobic.
paradoxically, in Montpellier, it's just the opposite. there are often people, shops, but it's peaceful because it's much bigger, and on top of that a few minutes walk from the city center.
The place, as beautiful as it can be for people, is subject to the worst things created by the rise of insecurity and mass immigration in France and Europe
The brutalism of depressing soviet buildings is expressed in this place. There´s no harmony with the beauty of french architecture, only monstrosity expressed in so many ways. People are loosing their aesthetical perception, wich can easily be replaced by the exaltation of the ugliness, without even noticing.
It's hideous. No sense of life. Worse than Montane Mansions in H.K.
@@FRSkyLaw L'immigration a bon dos, n'oublie pas de dire à nos amis anglophones que c'est l'immigration qui a reconstruit la France à l'après guerre et c'est encore l'immigration qui accepte les métiers que les "vrais" français ne veulent pas faire.
It's the scene of the movie hunger games
When I worked at Disneyland Paris I lived there for a couple of months, on the top floors, they’re not actually flats they are two floors it was a very bizarre place like a film set but always seemed quiet coz it was so big
Thank you for making our suburb look so amazing ! Especially when you know that few months ago they wanted to destroy our architectural heritage !
Antoine Leclerc wow! Really it should stay ! U.S would love these they would make them into condos like they doing everything else in lower income housing projects
Not our heritage at all. This ugly place is inspired on communism and the depressive brutalism of soviet buildings. Decay and lack of good aesthetical perception is not part of french culture, at all. That is just a sad ode to collectivism and the poverty that it drags.
Whats interesting to me is when these people say they like to live there and do not want to move. Here in Malmö, where I live, everybody I know always wants to move to a bigger, nicer, more expensive place in a more attractive neighbourhood and sell their previous place at a profit.
Thats a sort of survival tactic, where you secure money to save up for the future, but to me it feels better to stay at a place you like or at the very least make it better and find some comfort there. After all, that’s what home is, right? Where you’re ”at home” and feel the most comfortable?
Ricardo Bofill masterpieces
Hermoso. Sencillamente hermoso. Notable. Me inspira mucha paz. Me gustaría ver el interior de los apartamentos...Pero la atmósfera que evoca es increíble.
People are loosing their good aesthetical perception, wich can easily be replaced by the exaltation of the ugliness, without even noticing. This complex reminds me the brutalism of depressing soviet buildings. There´s no harmony with the beauty of french architecture, only monstrosity expressed in so many ways.
It's hideous and nightmarish.
This was where they filmed the movie Brazil (1985)
I was thinking about it, is it really where they went ?
@@jonathanmegevand3266 Yes it is. This place was used as a film set for both movies Brazil and Hunger Games.
how does it look inside the apartement? are they all the same?
This video is why main stream media is dying. Found this video trying to find out about this building etc. Got a video with a few people talking about living there. nothing about its history, statistics. I know if I go to a non MSM video I'll get tons more info in half the time. Useless.
Amazing place and video !
Love the narration though
It's seems like a beautiful beautiful building but without sunlight, I feel depressed
it looks pretty nice to me. came here because of brazil. ive see alot worse buildings in and around London.
That’s one of the film locations of Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
C'est très gris tout cela. Beaucoup de béton!
Bonjour, Robert.
Il aurait pu renover car je vois un batiment majestueu mais c qu'un geto comme les autres dommage.
@@justinliss1898 L’occupant rend son aspect final à l’œuvre.
Boh, a me sembra bellissimo… 💘
Fascinating place. Is it possible to visit it ? Is its access restricted to those who live there ?
No we don't have much gated communities in France. This city is part of Marne la Vallée Ville Nouvelle (New Town) project. It is a 20km urban strip that spreads along the Marne River and the RER A line. From Paris close suburbs to the farthest Disneyland area. The architectural evolution from west to east is quite interesting.
No, it's not!
The other one is in the Yvelines ( Saint Quentin ) near Versailles west of Paris so you could visit both.
I've lived there for a year and it's pretty civilized ( universities, mall, offices etc. ) and never had a problem.
Generally speaking, the west of Paris is civilized and wealthier than the east.
The other one in Noisy-le-Grand, you don't want a go ( especially as a tourist ) because it's west of Paris in the middle of nowhere and it's mostly savages, drugs and criminality, everybody here knows that.
Here is what it looks like from the standpoint of criminality ( mind you this is not a movie ) ruclips.net/video/XjmMauUFVBE/видео.html
On the other hand, maybe they are proud of the attention they get with the movies and stuff and they don't give tourists a hard time, but generally speaking it's a bad idea😂
Abraxas a toujours été mon énigme personnelle. Son mauvais goût est mûr et pourtant c'est un endroit fascinant pour moi.
The brutalism of depressing soviet buildings is expressed in this place and has become a stinky ghetto with talent for crime spread. These are not the values of french people. This is just collectivism/communism and their fruits.
What filmed in the Hunger Games Mockingjay part 2 @47 mins into the movie until about the 1 hour mark.
Good document :) but you didn't mentioned about the name of the author of these projects .It' s really important :/ I would be grateful ,if you could change that :) I am an architecture student and I really appreciate his creativeness.
Feenando bofill
@@clock5080 he's Ricardo
Rest easy
This is Brazil the movie !
How about actually showing us the place?
Good building to make a Stephen king haunted movie
BOFIL
The French have to be all artsy-fartsy about everything, don't they?
That must cost the taxpayers a fortune to maintain
I came to hear the accents lol!
When third world war will begin
later
Not so late from now
i live super close to noisy le grand and nope nope nope it's just an ugly rotting mess sitting in the suburbs that needs to be torn down
People are loosing their aesthetical perception, wich can easily be replaced by the exaltation of the ugliness, without even noticing. This is the expression of the depressive brutalism of soviet buildings and the spanish architect who made it was a communist and do not represent the ideal of french people of beauty, liberty and harmony, just empoverishment trought chaos for domination. This place should be just demolished.
black
0/10,
What's the point of this video? 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
ART!!!
Nothing, pure modern madnesses without any connection to reality
@@FRSkyLaw Just a depressive soviet style building based on brutalism, made for a communist by the glory of ugliness and chaos.
@@rameses1979 This is not art, just the destruction of beauty and freedom ideals of french people through a poor, ugly and useless aesthetic, since it is inspired by a depressive soviet brutalism.
Uninformed.
This is an exaltation of the brutalism of soviet buildings. There´s no harmony with the beauty of french architecture, just the dystopian communist "ideal" of a man with bad taste and someone else's money to spend and a break with reality. Such an ugly and bizarre place should just be demolished.😑
The architect had zero empathy. Ghastly place. Zero view of the outside. Perversion.