II.4.4.k. TOMORROW'S DESTINATION?

MENU: 2.4.4.k. Tomorrow's destination?

WHAT SEEMS TO MAKE NO SENSE OFTEN REVEALS AN UNSUSPECTED REALITY. IN BARBÈS AND LA GOUTTE D'OR TWO ANOMOLIES SUGGEST A WORLD-WIDE DESTINATION TO COME

That the City has long-term plans for the overlooked neighborhood is not officially said, but...

• Renovating the Château Rouge metro station, at the heart of the territory, was indispensable. But why make the stop, which has no connecting lines and that leads only to the distant, run-down neighborhood, the city's most luxurious? (In 2015-2017) 

Vito

Hand-painted tiles from Louis XV's Sèvres National Manufactory (founded in 1740).

• Why build a second center for world and urban music? 

Opened in 2008

The FGO Barbara

1 rue de Fleury

 

Establishment web site

Opened in 2021

The 360 Music Factory

32 rue Myrha

A private initiative that the City backs.

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The infrastructure exists already

and a long-term perspective

would explain the many innovations.

• A métro station's unprecedented face lift

• The Barbès metro station: accessibility and spaces for the arts

• A 1920's cinema

• The wash-house that literature immortalized

• The City-backed couturiers' cooperative

• The Institute of Islamic Culture 

• World and urban culture for the planet?

• A portal toward the music of the outskirts

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A métro station's unprecedented face lift