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The first building for laboratories, the Observatoire, was completed in 1878 and extended in 1929 with the addition of the Nouvel Observatoire. The Observatoire together with the Nouvel Observatoire remain the main laboratory buildings of the BIPM.
The original Observatoire on the left, with its extension (the Nouvel Observatoire) on the right
The same buildings again, viewed from the Nouvel Observatoire end
The entrance to the Observatoire
The Observatoire (left) and Nouvel Observatoire (right)in the snow, January 2003
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The first building for laboratories, the Observatoire, was completed in 1878 and extended in 1929 with the addition of the Nouvel Observatoire. The Observatoire together with the Nouvel Observatoire remain the main laboratory buildings of the BIPM.
