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Albert Laprade
French architect (1883-1978) · France · On the map · Architects · Died at 94
Albert Laprade was a French architect, perhaps best known for the Palais de la Porte Dorée. During a long career he undertook many urban renewal projects as well as major industrial and commercial works. A skilled artist, he published a series of sketch books of architecture in France and other Mediterranean countries.
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El Hank lighthouse, Casablanca, which Laprade and Prost designed in 1916.
Villa Magdalena, Bénodet, Brittany (1926-1928)![Façade of the Voix du Nord building in Lille (1936), following the local tradition of crow-stepped gables.[14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lille_facade_la_voix_du_nord.JPG/1280px-Lille_facade_la_voix_du_nord.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Façade of the Voix du Nord building in Lille (1936), following the local tradition of crow-stepped gables.[14]
Paris, 4th arrondissement, quai Henri IV, seen from the quai Saint-Bernard, in 1981. The 14-story building to the rear in the right of the picture is the Prefecture.
Laprade's grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Villa Magdalena, today the Hôtel le Minare, Bénodet, Brittany (1926-1928)
Génissiat dam on the Rhône (1939-1950)
Renault factories on Seguin island at Boulogne-Billancourt (1944-1951)Awards
About this person
Country
France
Category
Architects
Type
Architect
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1883 to 1978 · aged 94
