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Old Posted May 8, 2009, 3:47 PM
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- Le miroir d'eau (the water mirror) :
French landscape architects, Claire and Michel Corajoud replaced the working docks on the Garonne River with a giant rectangle of ½ thick water. Just enough water over a black granite plaza to create a surface large enough to reflect the entire 18th century Stock Exchange building. The mirrored images of the building at night have already become a photo tourist's "must have" picture in Bordeaux.
A fog systems operates with and without the water. The scale of the site creates a miniature fog bank for more great photographs and helps the illusion of continuity of the water with the river like a misty infinity pool.





- Le Pont de pierre (the stone bridge) :
First bridge over the Garonne, it was constructed under the orders of Napoleon I between 1819 and 1822.[1] During the 12 years, the builders are faced with many challenges because of the strong current at the point in the river. They used a diving bell borrowed from the British to stabilize the bridge's pillars. It has seventeen arches (number of letters in the name Napoléon Bonaparte). On the sides, each pile of bricks is capped by a white medallion in honor of the emperor. It also carries the coat of arms of the city (three intertwined crescents).


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