ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sun, 3 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/880472/mr-plocqs-caballon-aurelie-poirrier-plus-igor-vassili-pouchkarevtch-dragoche-plus-vincent-oconnor Thu, 28 Sep 2017 05:00:00 +0000 Daniel Tapia https://www.archdaily.com/880472/mr-plocqs-caballon-aurelie-poirrier-plus-igor-vassili-pouchkarevtch-dragoche-plus-vincent-oconnor Mr. Plocq’s Caballon gives the opportunity to rediscover an almost-forgotten side of the Loire river estuary: that of the naturalists, those adventurous explorers from another time whose rich and unbelievable stories blend the taste of faraway travels to the land’s memory. The project is inspired by real-life Émile Plocq, aka the bird charmer, a local from the Vendée region who supposedly built a ship meant to perform expeditions to the shores of Africa with the help of migrating birds.

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