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Architects: Anne Démians
- Area: 10200 m²
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Photographs:Jean-Pierre Porcher et AAD
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Manufacturers: Interalu
Text description provided by the architects. Throughout the various periods of its urban development, Nancy’s vision always preceded its architectural commissions. The city suburbs were ini- tially attributed to the original castle town, and in the eighteenth century, a message of unity was asserted at the annexation of Lorraine to the Kingdom of France. And this was an opportunity to highlight the ducal power around an exceptional architecture (classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). At the beginning of the twentieth century, the architecture in Nancy suc- cessfully integrated the richness of the École de Nancy in its constructions, just as it was able to promote new ideas on building and construction in the footsteps of the architect and designer Jean Prouvé, who was also mayor of Nancy after the Liberation. This identity and legacy continues today with the reconquest of the riverbanks of the Meurthe: the city of the twenty-first century.
