A typical French apartment building. Many of its apartments are now being restored.

View from the east on Nguyen Du:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen1.JPG

View from the corner of Nguyen Du and rue Pasteur. Pasteur Court is a few blocks up on the right:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen2.JPG

Some interesting sun shades at ground level:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen3.JPG

Now we go behind the main facade and into the courtyard; the building has the typical shape of a U. An interior staircase:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen6.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen5.JPG

No views from here though, so we have to go around to an external staircase.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen92.JPG

Finally we make it to the top, and look down:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen10.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen8.JPG

View from the top floor, to the west:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen7.JPG

Diamond Plaza, to the NE:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen71.JPG

Kindergarden (notice how strangely cut off it is!) on the corner of Nguyen Du and Pasteur, on the other side of the street from the spot where I took the first photo:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen72.JPG

The Laotian consulate, to the south on Pasteur:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen73.JPG

Some more shots of the picturesque courtyard:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen4.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen9.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen91.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen11.JPG

A final view from the south on Pasteur:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen12.JPG

Nice photos
I saw this building in one of my photo taken during the 50s from air, not sure what the building is for.......surprised it's an apartment.

A typical French apartment building. Many of its apartments are now being restored.

View from the east on Nguyen Du:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen1.JPG

View from the corner of Nguyen Du and rue Pasteur. Pasteur Court is a few blocks up on the right:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen2.JPG

Some interesting sun shades at ground level:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen3.JPG

Now we go behind the main facade and into the courtyard; the building has the typical shape of a U. An interior staircase:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen6.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen5.JPG

No views from here though, so we have to go around to an external staircase.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen92.JPG

Finally we make it to the top, and look down:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen10.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen8.JPG

View from the top floor, to the west:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen7.JPG

Diamond Plaza, to the NE:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen71.JPG

Kindergarden (notice how strangely cut off it is!) on the corner of Nguyen Du and Pasteur, on the other side of the street from the spot where I took the first photo:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen72.JPG

The Laotian consulate, to the south on Pasteur:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen73.JPG

Some more shots of the picturesque courtyard:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen4.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen9.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen91.JPG

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen11.JPG

A final view from the south on Pasteur:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jaroslaw/81nguyen12.JPG

Jaro, please re-post the above pictures. I missed them.

Many thanks.