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Chartres, France
Illiers-Combray Station
This French train station is located in a town renamed after the famed writer Marcel Proust's fictional name for the village.
In 1868, a post office and shop opened in the kauri-logging settlement of Matakana—a town that would grow to just 570 residents by 2023. More than a century later, someone decided that this village’s postal service deserved more than function alone. The result: a herringbone-tiled facade in defiant black and white, housing red post boxes for a community small enough that everyone likely knows whose mail is whose. It’s the kind of architectural commitment that makes you wonder if the designer was personally offended by boring buildings.
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