Yes, and Stéphanois are very pround of it, we're waiting for a Zénith for a long time, I like it but I hope it will be the same at the end, the renderings are not very good, so we'll see...
Anyway, the city will probably pay this Foster building for years, while the lawn around the tram is not maintained...
Anyway, the city will probably pay this Foster building for years, while the lawn around the tram is not maintained...
What do you mean ? That St-Etienne could not really afford this building ?
I'm sure that, even though it's expensive, it could turn out to be a good investment.
Je passerai 5 mois à Lyon bientôt, j'irai définitivement faire un tour à St-Étienne, ça semble intéressant. J'adore les quartiers médiévaux, y'en-a-t'il à St-Étienne, Lyon ou y'a-t-il des villes médiévales intéressantes dans le coin?
What do you mean ? That St-Etienne could not really afford this building ?
I'm sure that, even though it's expensive, it could turn out to be a good investment.
Yes this is what I meant, maybe I'm wrong but I think these famous names as Foster, Maki or even Nouvel (the project is not yet approved but...) are too much for this small city, and probably that's why we have a new major. We're too close to Lyon which is The attractive city.
Does St Etienne really need to have the same architects as those of the new WTC? while projects could have been realized without necessarily involving such great names.
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Je passerai 5 mois à Lyon bientôt, j'irai définitivement faire un tour à St-Étienne, ça semble intéressant. J'adore les quartiers médiévaux, y'en-a-t'il à St-Étienne, Lyon ou y'a-t-il des villes médiévales intéressantes dans le coin?
In St Etienne, we only have some old buildings as La droguerie de la Tour or old houses in the small St Jean district, on Rue des Martyrs de Vingrés. Lyon have the old Lyon (end of middle age and beginning of Renaissance)
But not really far from here (about 40 km from Lyon) there is Perouges, a real medieval town, I visited it when I was in school, traditionally, each school goes there for its one day trip at the end of the school year. Here's a link: http://www.perouges.org/
I hope you will be able to get out and take some photos of the Tour De France on Thursday when the stage ends in Sainté.
Sorry, I won't be in town this thursday, I'm going to flee this event! I'm on vacations for 2 weeks with a new camera, so I planned to visit the area, I'm going to the Ravin de Corboeuf, 50/60 km from St Etienne, it looks like this:
Good idea to add this video, I've just discovered it! the strange building with the yellow parts on the rendering, is the Cité Administrative, the construction has just begun, I'll post some pics when the project will worth to be shown.
A funny thing in this city, we say that we go up to when we go to the South (--> Guizay direction) and that we go down to the North, near Carnot
railroad station (yellow things above the street), this because the Grand'rue is going up from North to South!
The mining past of the St Etienne area can even been seen on its roundabouts.
Going back to work after 2 weeks vacation, I finally realized that the roundabouts I use 4 times a day, may present some interest for this thread:
Just before the small town of Sorbiers:
Another one on the road to Sorbiers:
Talking about these with friends, I've learned that the best one is situated near La Ricamarie, an arrondissement of St Etienne and a mecca of the french minors struggle for improving their life and work conditions near 1870, some events have been a source of inspiration for Émile Zola's novel Germinal.
This coal mine shaft is the real one, at the same place, they just built around roads.
Here's more urban views, now we're going uptown, actually to the south, but the street is going up so...
we're following the Grande Rue and its straight tram line: (http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=d&saddr...=UTF8&t=h&z=14)
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178. A former famous department store, 1st Nouvelles Galeries, then became Galeries Lafayette and finally closed about 5 years ago, and now under renovation (office spaces)
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181. Place Anatole France
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184. Here the lawn is well maintained
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186. Yes, Miss Liberty is here too, enlightening the world
187. Ok a very small one, just lightening the sidewalk
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Awful! it looks like 70'
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