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Pigalle Duperré – a basketball court like you've never seen it before

Pigalle Duperré basketball court

Pigalle Duperré is a basketball court like you have never seen before, as it works as if you had drawn it. You've probably already come across one of our series of photos with photo manipulations, where reality was mixed with Photoshop inserts. This time it's all real, and the outdoor basketball court sandwiched between apartments is located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Behind the project stands Ill-Studio, which has teamed up with the French fashion brand Pigalle on this occasion.

Pigalle Duperre is external a basketball court like you've never seen it before, as it seems like an apparition or plucked from a fantasy world. It is named after the location where it is located, the exact location being Rue Duperré. The playground was renovated for the first time in 2009, and they were due for renovation then Stephen Ashpool, founder of the brand Pigalle, and Nike. Last year, the playground received another stylistic transformations, which was officially opened this summer at an event Pigalle Basketball Spring Summer 2015.

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A basketball court that looks like something out of a cartoon.
A basketball court that looks like something out of a cartoon.

Besides the playground - it inspired him artwork "Athletes" (four men pose motionless and wear colorful gear) by a Russian artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, a representative of the Russian avant-garde - has also been located since 2014 basketball store Pigalle. The base is made of rubber granulate EPDM (ethylene-propylene-diene-monomer), a coating that is often used for sports surfaces and when playing on children's playgrounds.

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