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The swimming pool complex lies beside the entrance to the town of Fondettes, just a few kilometres from the city of Tours. The urban backdrop here is mainly residential with a housing estate. The site of the swimming pool complex is completely flat. It faces a roundabout that was recently built. Eugeni Pons The edifice plays the demanding role of signalling its presence while creating a new landscape. Its long white walls stretch afar and seem to reflect the skyline. The outline of this structure is lunar and dreamlike. It unfolds in the middle of fields, its series of concave lines culminating by the entrance to the town. With perspective, its curved walls, which extend over a hundred metres, reach spellbinding slenderness and a mesm... More

Cadsky is the name of an industrialist who built his private residence above Freudenstein Castle in the 1960s. The globetrotter did not choose a classic, local construction method, but was inspired by different styles. The existing building is one-storey and of an attractive size with a pitched roof. This was covered with slabs of slate. Gustav Willeit The construction task consisted in the renovation and expansion of the existing building and the creation of new premises. An elongated structure was chosen, which replaces an originally existing extension in its position. The new building was placed in the landscape with great care. Derived from the stratification of the soil in the surrounding vineyards, "stamped concrete" was chosen... More