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  • Hello and bonjour encore ! I'm back in Paris and this is the door to number 1 bis, Rue Chapon.

  • Or is it?

  • You can knock on it and wait here for as long as you want, but no-one is ever going to open it

  • and let you in, and that's not just because they're Parisians; it's also because this

  • is an art installation; the door appeared here early one Saturday morning in 2006 on

  • what was previously a blank wall.

  • And that got me thinking.

  • I wonder how many other fake doors there are in the city, maybe even whole fake buildings, that

  • people walk past every day without ever realising they're not real?

  • I bet there are so many they won't even fit into this intro.

  • We're starting our fake building quest right in the middle of Paris at the Pompidou Centre.

  • The architects famously put all the normally hidden parts of a building on the outside,

  • from the structural supports, to electrical equipment, to these huge white ventilation shafts.

  • What you end up with is a normal building on the inside that looks like some weird industrial

  • infrastructure on the outside.

  • And of course we're here to see almost the exact opposite of that.

  • And it all starts with another ventilation shaft in London.

  • This is Leinster Gardens, a beautiful street near Paddington Station, and if you hang out

  • in the same parts of YouTube that I do, someone's probably already told you about the fake buildings

  • at numbers 23 and 24, that were built to disguise a ventilation shaft for the tube; But what

  • you may not know, is that Paris has loads of these.

  • And just round the corner next to this protest I think we might have found one.

  • Number 29 rue Quincampoix looks real at first but as you get closer you can see that the

  • windows have all been painted on.

  • Why?

  • Well during the pedestrianisation of Paris's city centre in the 70s and 80s, they built

  • a huge network of underground road tunnels here, and the artwork was commissioned to

  • disguise a ventilation shaft, which you can see when you look at the satellite view on

  • Google maps.

  • It's beautifully done but if we're being picky (which to clarify we absolutely are)

  • it's pretty obvious that it's not a real building.

  • But a short walk away there's another, and this one is a lot harder to spot.

  • Number 44 Rue d'Aboukir is a typical traditional 6-story Parisian building until you look closely

  • at the front door.

  • This notice tells you it belongs to the RATP, the company that runs Paris's public transport

  • and sure enough it's hiding another ventilation shaft. This time it's for the underground railway

  • tunnel that carries suburban RER trains between Les Halles and the Gare du Nord.

  • The transport company designed the façade to blend in as much as possible with the rest of the street

  • and you'd have to say they did a pretty good job.

  • Which is more than can be said for what the electricity company did just up the road.

  • In the 1970s Electricité de France put a substation on Rue Bergère and it was kind

  • of ugly and the residents complained so they thought, ok, why don't we do what the RATP did,

  • and build a façade in front of it.

  • So they did.

  • But I feel like they didn't quite understand the bit about blending in.

  • See if you can spot it.

  • To be fair number 27 is a pretty convincing building, the only problem is that it would

  • have been less ugly if it was just an electrical substation.

  • We've now walked almost all the way up to the Gare du Nord which is admittedly partly

  • because I have to catch a train in about 15 minutes but that's ok because as we know,

  • trains mean ventilation shafts, and ventilation shafts mean fake facades.

  • And what's coming up next is probably the best and most famous of the lot.

  • The house at 145 rue la Fayette was 90

  • or an entrance to the underworld, depending on whether you listen to the RATP or Umberto Eco.

  • I'm not going to tell you who you should believe, but the historic façade was fully

  • preserved, together with its classic 2nd floor balcony, and the guardians of the underworld

  • seem to have put scaffolding behind it for maintenance purposes.

  • So if you could get inside, you'd be able to climb up and open the windows.

  • Any attempt to actually do this would be extremely dangerous and hugely illegal, which means, of course,

  • there's a YouTuber who's done it.

  • You can check out the link in the description below but before you do that there's time for one

  • final stop just around the corner at number 174 rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis.

  • And yes it's yet another ventilation shaft.

  • There are in fact at least another 5 fake facades in Paris (that we know about),

  • so there's more to explore, but for today we'll end our tour here, because there's only so many

  • stupid jokes I can make about large-scale ventilation, and to be honest,

  • I'm not a big fan.

  • OK WHO WROTE THAT?

  • If you'd like to see the fake facades of Paris (from the outside at least), you can follow my

  • exact route using the Google Maps link in the increasingly long description below.

  • It takes about an hour and I recommend doing in the reverse order

  • if you'd rather be going downhill.

  • Anyway thanks for watching and I'll see you soon.

Hello and bonjour encore ! I'm back in Paris and this is the door to number 1 bis, Rue Chapon.

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パリのフェイクビル(とその背景にある物語 (Paris's Fake Buildings (And The Story Behind Them))

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    jeremy.wang に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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