{"id":12008,"date":"2012-08-01T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=12008"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:57:23","slug":"urban-planet-weird-wednesday-that-time-paris-melted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/08\/01\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-that-time-paris-melted\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That time Paris melted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"parismelty\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/214\/477613751_02bf99c962_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"..\/2012\/05\/09\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-neft-dashlari-a-community-on-the-sea\/feature-urban-planet-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWeird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the &#8220;we swear it&#8217;s not photoshopped&#8221; category, this Parisian building looks as though French architects must be big fans of either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artgallery2000.com\/gallery\/images\/spider-of-the-evening-hope.jpg\">Dali<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingcollector.com\/2011\/02\/jell-o-buildings.html\">Jell-O<\/a>. This was what 39 Avenue George V in Paris looked like in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?attachment_id=32431\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"parismelting\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/parismelting-600x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The effect is actually from a facade that was installed over the bulding during renovation work. It went up in the winter of 07-08 and was created by temporary achitecture firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athem.fr\/#!creation_athem\/ckiy\">Athem<\/a> and sculpter Pierre Delavie.<\/p>\n<p>Though it was taken down a couple years later, you can still catch it on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;q=avenue+george+v+paris&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x47e66fc2981eec4f:0x390f701b993bfb43,Avenue+George+V,+75008+Paris,+France&amp;gl=ca&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=NUAYUK3bEsnA0QGEz4CwAg&amp;ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA\">Google Street View<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joyoflife\/477613751\/lightbox\/\">Julie70<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. From the &#8220;we swear it&#8217;s not photoshopped&#8221; category, this Parisian building looks as though French architects must be big fans of either Dali or Jell-O. This was what 39 Avenue George V in Paris looked like<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/08\/01\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-that-time-paris-melted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That time Paris melted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5864],"tags":[5522,684,678,5524,5523,1174,464],"class_list":["post-12008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-athem","tag-facebook","tag-paris","tag-parisian-building","tag-pierre-delavie","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That time Paris melted - Spacing Atlantic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/08\/01\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-that-time-paris-melted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That time Paris melted - Spacing Atlantic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. 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