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This new project "Quartier de la gare" aimed at developing an area adjacent the train station in Pontoise outside Paris. And it has been done totally right! A former storage area & surface parking has been transformed to a student& senior residence, a nursery, social housing.. 
One notable group were the Baltic germans that arrived during the first crusade. After conquering the lands they installed themselves as nobility, priests and merchants. In short a ruling class that strived to assimilate the different fino-ugric and baltic peoples. 
While modernism is the architecture of atomisation, a local traditional architecture show something to aspire to belong to. As humans we want to identify with beautiful places and what can create more curiosity in the new immigrant than an imposing built environment. 
A perfect example is France, where the best new traditional architecture is built adjacent (American) Euro Disneyland. Outside of it, "construction company classicism" is the norm. But now excellent German classical architect Sebastian Treese has entered the market 
TOD's to high rise slums, the commune of Yerres understood that in order to create a secure place for commuters, you have to attract middle class families. They will "police" (by terrorizing local politicians) the area so that it does not attract drug dealers&addicts 

The main centers of new traditional architecture in Russia are of course Moscow and St Petersburg. But there are projects all over the wast country and a third center is undoubtedly Tatarstan's main city Kazan.
The small bridge "Boombrug" with its beautiful gate was erected 1725, but then torn down 151 years later in 1876. That could have been the end of the story but with new development in the area in the 2000s, a successful push was made for the reconstruction of the historic bridge. 
but the 1h 46 min train ride did hardly promote commuting. But what it did was to give Londoners the possibility of a nice weekend trip, given they had a reason.And what do the posh of London yearn for? A traditional English village of course surrounded by a beautiful landscape. 
during the communist years out of an old estate building. There was need for additional space and a modernist extension was built for this purpose. It was of course ugly as expected. Post communism and the institute is still active but out of respect of the town both 


not dead but alive, though on life support. Much of this has to do with a general view, much like the developed world in the 1960s, that the old classical represents poor past and modernism a bright future. A lone warrior, @HumbertoPlazaA is fighting this one bld at a time.
It does not help that the modernists frame it this why in their quest to stamp out any option to their ugliness. And as soon as one prove them wrong, their real argument surface, that is one should not build new traditional regardless because (insert bogus reason)
there is a genuine chance for change now. This is the new Centro Cultural Juan Beckmann Gallardo in Tequila, a museum that exhibits Mexican art and artistic expression from pre-colonial to present. The style chosen is inspired by Mexican baroque. 
with the harbour area that it lies adjacent to. This was as mentioned just the first of his many projects in the harbour area. A bonus is that they all either replace modernism or surface parking.
demolish and rebuild with the 1960s addition torn down. The new design came from John Simpson Architects (johnsimpsonarchitects.com) and while the exteriors are not perfect, they are an enormous improvement. The interiors though are amazing.
to classical architecture and thus a modernist monstrosity was erected. But with new leadership Budapest has seen a transformation with countless buildings reconstructed. For this plot it was decided to tear down the modernist bld & realize the old plans from the 1920s.