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Patrimoine & Culture
Le Panoramique
📍 Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône
· Le Panoramique, 13150 Tarascon
À propos
Le Panoramique is the name given, since its inauguration in October 1964, to the civic centre built between 1962 and 1964 by the architects Marcel and Pierre Guesnot, on the initiative of the municipality.
The civic centre, planned in the reconstruction and development plan by Pierre Vago, was to symbolize the rebirth of the city after the Second World War, by constituting the "bridgehead", a true symbolic and monumental gate facing Beaucaire and the Languedoc.
The symbolic significance of the Civic Centre results from its location and its vocation. The architects imagined a building with a certain monumentality: symmetrical and orderly facades, use of ashlar, colossal colonnade, classical modenature. The main facade has a rhythmic pattern, obtained by alternating projecting and recessed stones, which gives depth and density to the building, a direct reference to Fernand Pouillon's architecture.
As the interior decoration designed by the architects was considered too modernist, they were discarded in favour of Michel Placidi, who used the Louis XIII style (staircase railing) and Louis XV style (fireplace, tables, chairs). This radical change in aesthetic bias led to a curious balance between modern architectural lines and an interior decoration inspired by another age that has been preserved today (banister, fireplace, chandeliers).
The civic centre, planned in the reconstruction and development plan by Pierre Vago, was to symbolize the rebirth of the city after the Second World War, by constituting the "bridgehead", a true symbolic and monumental gate facing Beaucaire and the Languedoc.
The symbolic significance of the Civic Centre results from its location and its vocation. The architects imagined a building with a certain monumentality: symmetrical and orderly facades, use of ashlar, colossal colonnade, classical modenature. The main facade has a rhythmic pattern, obtained by alternating projecting and recessed stones, which gives depth and density to the building, a direct reference to Fernand Pouillon's architecture.
As the interior decoration designed by the architects was considered too modernist, they were discarded in favour of Michel Placidi, who used the Louis XIII style (staircase railing) and Louis XV style (fireplace, tables, chairs). This radical change in aesthetic bias led to a curious balance between modern architectural lines and an interior decoration inspired by another age that has been preserved today (banister, fireplace, chandeliers).
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