THE BARBÈS MÉTRO STATION

THIS INDUSTRIAL MONUMENT OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY IS A NEIGHBOROOD SYMBOL...

A surprising site for exhibits and shows, and part of a passage waiting to be used.

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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:  

The Compagnie Gaby Sourire and Faun Arts,

 

Installation by Ange et Dam

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An "urban promenade" uniting the Barbès, La Chapelle and Stalingrad stops was planned in 2019...

    Map obtained through the link above

1.28 kilometers

But covid and a press that called it "the great waste, a "court of miracles, requisitioned by peddlers, delinquents and migrants," led to abandoning it.

 A court of miracles? The space in August 2022.

For how a similar passage 

is used elsewhere, please click.

 It waits for new imagination.

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Next,

Another monument: a movie house of the 1920's