Very cool new public artwork on Place Marie de Gournay in the nascent ‘Belvedere’ district of Bordeaux: ‘La Carte, à l’ombre de la ville’, by Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich, is a 400-square-metre aluminium canopy held up by 14 five-metre metallic pine
Woo-hoo, there’s a new bridge in town: Pont Simone-Veil. Nice wide footpaths, cycle paths and bus lanes, and even some space left for old-school cars. And some unusual new public artwork Floirac-side, further information soon.
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1959 air disaster [update]: this remarkable photo from Paris Match shows the flattened trees of the crash area, not far from the south-western tip of Mérignac airport runway 23. By cross-referencing that photo with an aerial shot of the area taken in 1957
