02/03: Images of Nancy
Category: Week 20 - Nancy
Posted by: troachadmin
I would like to share four buildings or spaces in Nancy.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy
Building by Swiss architect Livio Vacchini and completed about 15 years ago.
Excellence in prefabricated concrete, light, and flexible spaces - in a modernist way! Here is a 1% for art project in the central atrium of the architecture school library.
Going backwards in time...
The turn-of-the-20th century Art Nouveau masterpiece of architects Henri Sauvage and Lucien Weissenburger, designed in collaboration with and for the decorator and furniture-maker Louis Majorelle, today called the Villa Majorelle. The exuberant cermic tile-work on the interior and exterior are the designs of Alexandre Bigot.
The public entry vestibule of the Villa Majorelle.
Place Stanislaus. The four corner gates (not visible in this image) were recently restored with their gold leaf accents.
One of the restored corner gates of Place Stanislaus, with the Cathedral perfectly framed in its arch. The city plan creates this alignment; not the photographer!
The organ of the Nancy Cathedral is one of the oldest and most spectacular in France. It is a "monument classée", subject to design review of the Ministry of Culture for proposed work. This cathedral also demonstrates perhaps the worst lighting I've seen anywhere; off the shelf hi-bay industrial lighting. I can only hope these are temporary!!
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy
Building by Swiss architect Livio Vacchini and completed about 15 years ago.
Excellence in prefabricated concrete, light, and flexible spaces - in a modernist way! Here is a 1% for art project in the central atrium of the architecture school library.
Going backwards in time...
The turn-of-the-20th century Art Nouveau masterpiece of architects Henri Sauvage and Lucien Weissenburger, designed in collaboration with and for the decorator and furniture-maker Louis Majorelle, today called the Villa Majorelle. The exuberant cermic tile-work on the interior and exterior are the designs of Alexandre Bigot.
The public entry vestibule of the Villa Majorelle.
Place Stanislaus. The four corner gates (not visible in this image) were recently restored with their gold leaf accents.
One of the restored corner gates of Place Stanislaus, with the Cathedral perfectly framed in its arch. The city plan creates this alignment; not the photographer!
The organ of the Nancy Cathedral is one of the oldest and most spectacular in France. It is a "monument classée", subject to design review of the Ministry of Culture for proposed work. This cathedral also demonstrates perhaps the worst lighting I've seen anywhere; off the shelf hi-bay industrial lighting. I can only hope these are temporary!!
