Boves Pharmacy, Picardie Building, Amiens Architecture, France Architect Design Images
Boves Pharmacy, Somme, France
Amiens Building Information: Northern French Architecture design by Ian Ritchie Architect
Location: Boves, southwest of Amiens, Somme, Picardie, northern France
Date built: 1985-86
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects
photo © Jocelyne Van den Bossche
Boves Pharmacy Building
This commission gave Ian Ritchie Architects the opportunity to test pre-assembly and pre-fabrication quality solely by telecommunications. The project was designed and engineered in our London office, understood and interpreted in Viry s.a. in Epinal (Vosges), then checked in London – by fax.
Site assembly began on 19 June 1989 and the Pharmacy opened 3 weeks later on 8 July in Boves, near Amiens, in northern France. There was one site survey visit, one visit at the time of the two trucks of the ‘convoi exceptionel’ delivering the building elements and two site inspections after occupation. The final account was completed on 8 October 1989.
photo © Jocelyne Van den Bossche
The concept of the pharmacy is based on three unusual criteria : 1. No traditional shop window. 2. No traditional counter. 3. Incorporate accommodation for an on – duty overnight pharmacist. The challenge to the chemist was to accept the ‘village’ location, as against the ‘High Street’ and in recognising this to believe in the public service he was providing, in particular to the old, and mothers and children.
Boves Pharmacy design : Ian Ritchie Architects
Boves Building images / information from Ian Ritchie Architects in 2007
Location: Boves, Somme, Picardy, northeast of France, near the Belgian border
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Somme Buildings
Key Picardy Architecture Projects:
Albert Cultural Centre
Date built: 1993
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects
French cultural building
Fluy House, nr Amiens
Date built: 1977
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects
Somme house
Primary School, Daours, nr Amiens
Date built: 1992
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects
Picardie school building
Amiens Media Library
Amiens Media Library
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New Buildings in France
French Architectural Projects
French Architecture Design – chronological list
French Architecture Offices – design firm listings
Paris Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect
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Contemporary French Architecture – architectural selection below:
2024 Paris Olympics’ Aquatics Center
Architects: VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4/
image courtesy of architects
2024 Paris Olympics Aquatics Center Building
28 Social Housing Units, Courbevoie, Paris, France
Architects: Koz architectes
28 Social Housing Units in Courbevoie
Maison at Bordeaux
Design: Rem Koolhaas, OMA
Zenith Saint-Etienne Building
Design: Foster + Partners
Zenith Music Hall Strasbourg
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architecture
New General Building of Council of Europe
Design: Art & Build Architect
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Boves
Boves is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Boves is situated on the D935 and D116 road junction, on the banks of the river Avre, some 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Amiens.
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