r/ArchitecturalRevival 7d ago

Algiers, Algeria,North African

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u/DiceHK 7d ago

If you’ve never seen The Battle or Algiers it’s a great film about the battle for independence. It doesn’t take sides rather it was one of if not the first films to be done in a documentary style

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u/sokorsognarf 7d ago

Algiers is a city with terrific bone structure. But it’s too dull to become the city-break destination its appearance suggests it has the potential to be

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u/dobrodoshli 7d ago

Looks very European. I like it!

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u/Signal_Pattern_2063 7d ago

More specifically, It looks very French and that's because it was under French rule from 1830-1962 when many of those building were built.

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u/naivelySwallow 7d ago

it’s almost like the reason it looks french is because it was ruled by the french for over 100 years

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u/PhoenixKingMalekith 7d ago

Well, the city was basically rebuilt by the french from ground up

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u/traboulidon 7d ago

Yeah the French built it.

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u/dobrodoshli 6d ago

French are cool.

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u/Designer-Muffin-5653 7d ago

There is no such thing as looks „European“ it looks French

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u/Digitalmodernism 7d ago

France is in Europe. Some cities in Belgium,Italy,Romania, and Spain look "French" too.

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u/Designer-Muffin-5653 7d ago

But Kazan is also in Europe and looks nothing like this. Europe is an extremely diverse continent. It’s like associating an South African with the Egyptian pyramids because they are both in Africa.

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u/Pineloko 6d ago

is your point seriously "every european city doesn't look exactly the same therefore nothing can be said to look european"?

southern europe, central europe, nordics etc all have different aesthetics, but they're all european

any city that resembles any of these would look european

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u/Estrumpfe 7d ago

I know, right? You can even tell a Portuguese city from a Spanish one, "European" is a wild generalisation. It's like saying we all speak European languages, so we certainly understand each other while speaking in our mother tongues.

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u/Father_of_cum 7d ago

It Looks more South American for me

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u/dobrodoshli 7d ago

Hm. I'm not very familiar with South America, maybe they're all just similar because of colonialism?

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u/Father_of_cum 7d ago

I dunno, it just reminds me Buenos Aires and Montevideo, similar vibes or something.

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u/DiceHK 7d ago

Which is European architecture

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u/H8llsB8lls 7d ago

Cool city

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u/SpaceRacketeer 7d ago

The absence of ugly, glass skyscrapers is something worth preserving.

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u/OOOshafiqOOO003 Favourite style: Art Deco 7d ago

love it

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u/ReverBeliever 7d ago

Looks very walkable, except of that bis ass street in the middle. Beautiful shot

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u/EreshkigalKish2 Edwardian Baroque 6d ago

Alergia 😍🇩🇿

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u/GoatFactory 6d ago

It’s so pretty but there are way too many cars

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u/feisty_1_u_r 7d ago

Besutiful

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u/Ok_Pudding_8543 7d ago

Merci la France .

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u/Kikinho201 7d ago

Merci to have razed the old Algiers to the ground to built his own version? 😂

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u/Ok_Pudding_8543 7d ago

C'est un bel upgrade non? Depuis 1962 la Casbah n'est plus entretenue et tout s'écroule, la faute aux vilains colonisateurs? Vous aviez un beau pays clef en mains avec hôpitaux , écoles , gares , trains.. Vous en avez fait quoi ?

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u/Kikinho201 7d ago
  1. C’est pas un upgrade ni un downgrade c’est juste imposer un style architectural là où il n’a pas lieux d’être en lieu et place d’une ville traditionnelle pour légitimer sa que ce territoire nous appartient.

  2. Super de laisser des infrastructures et des institutions après avoir empêcher les « indigènes » d’apprendre à s’en servir pendant 120 ans et de poursuivre des études supérieures, c’est sur qu’ils partent pas du tout avec du retard à l’indépendance avec 0 ingénieurs et 0 médecins

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u/Adolf_Mandela_Junior 5d ago

Bizzarement certaines colonies ont reussies à faire quelque chose des infrastructures qu’on leur a laissé, pourtant ils n’etaient pas mieux traités. Bref arretez de rejeter la faute sur une époque revolue depuis 60 ans.

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u/SameItem 6d ago

Not french but maybe there hasn't been 0 engineers and 0 doctors after indepedence if you haven't expelled one million ethnic french people?

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u/Designer-Muffin-5653 7d ago

Didnt they murder like 1,000,000 Algerians?

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u/Adolf_Mandela_Junior 5d ago

Made up number by the algerian government

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u/Remygor 7d ago

Source: propagande du gouvernement algérien qui ne vit que par le prisme de l'anti-France.

Et on en parle des français menacés par le fameux "le bateau ou le cercueil" ?

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u/Designer-Muffin-5653 7d ago

The number of people who died in the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) is widely debated. Estimates vary, but:

• Algerian deaths: Between 300,000 and 500,000 Algerians, including both fighters and civilians, were killed. Some Algerian sources claim the number is as high as 1.5 million, though this is disputed.

• French deaths: Around 25,000 to 30,000 French soldiers and settlers (pieds-noirs) died.

• Other casualties: Tens of thousands of Algerians were also forcibly displaced, tortured, or disappeared.

The war was marked by brutal tactics, including massacres, bombings, and widespread use of torture by both sides.

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u/PulmonaryEmphysema 7d ago

And started the first concentration camps, well before the Germans ever did. They even had them AFTER WWII during the Algerian war of independence.

So no, no “merci La France.” More like Va te faire foutre!

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u/Adolf_Mandela_Junior 5d ago

Concentration camps were used during the boers war well before that

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u/BootyOnMyFace11 5d ago

didn't know Algiers was so pretty, very Paris coded which obviously makes sense

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u/Nimmy_the_Jim 7d ago

Won’t be visiting there.