The Real Thing

Archi-faux

Also known as El imperio de lo falso: clones de monumentos famosos, Klony słynnych zabytków: królestwo fałszu, Fake Empires: The Architecture of Imitation, The Real Thing VR, Archi-faux : vraies villes et faux monuments

“Real life in fake cities”

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.