Wednesday, February 27, 2019

MONUMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: THE BARBÈS MÉTRO AND THE LOUXOR CINEMA


OF COURSEA DESTINATION MUST BE ACCESSIBLE AND AT BARBES TWO LOCAL LINES AND AN EXPRESS LINE INTERSECT

Adapted from an official map


The station itself is an industrial monument and a neighborhood symbol...


That also provides areas for exhibits and performances and a walkway waiting to be put to use:

  • Paintings can hang from the ribbon of steel under the rails:

Les Intruses ("The Women Intruders"), by the photographer Randa Marufi for the Institute of Islamic Cultures, 2020 / zoom

  • It overlooks a painted path that is adapted to skateboarding, bicycling, training,  performances and exhibits:  

 

Installation by Ange et Dam

  • An "urban promenade" uniting the Barbès, La Chapelle and Stalingrad stops was planned in 1919 but covid and hostile media led to abandoning it.
    Map obtained through the link above
1.28 kilometers, launched in 2019 


 The space in August 2022


For how a similar passage is used
for an annual festivity, please click.

 It's there should more favorable times arise.


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Another fixture is the 1920's cinema next to the station's exit: Please click back for more.



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Next,
Another site that existed already,
that the City saved and that now is a site for performances:




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