Hôtel de Ville, Le Havre
The city hall square and Perret's concrete skyline, a live webcam in the centre of Le Havre.
About this view
This live cam looks over the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, the parade ground of the most ambitious reconstruction in post-war France. Auguste Perret's team rebuilt 133 hectares of city centre in reinforced concrete, and UNESCO listed the result as World Heritage in 2005, a rare twentieth-century town centre on that list.
The city hall's tower rises 72 metres over the square, finished in 1958. Below it the square works as squares do: markets and events, skateboards, people cutting across on their way somewhere, the fountains running through summer.
The light is the thing here: Perret's concrete goes from cold grey to warm gold as the sun drops (UTC+1, +2 in summer). Mid-May to mid-September is the clearest stretch.
