I love love love this archive of 12000+ photographs of the everyday built environment in provincial France: https://www.archive-arn.fr/ . The photography is consistently superb & the search function, by typology, material, date, region, or even shape (try triangles) is brilliant.
Here are sports centres in Saint-Nazaire, Loudon, Lomme, & Châlons-en-Champagne:
Abstract public sculpture in Bobigny, Aire des Neyrolles, Mauléon, & Noisy-le-Grand:
An inexplicable private home in Livet-et-Gavet:
A really really sinister school in Angoulême
A cinema in Guérigny
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