Gallery Botton – Royan
The "Gallery Botton" is located in Royan, France.
This asset is part of the "Royan architecture" collection.
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Address: District center in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France
Date of construction: 1956
Program: shopping mall
Visible at the roundabout of the Post Office, the sinuosity of this surprising shopping mall appears today largely parasitized by all the exhibition stands which have been annexed to it. In 1956, it resumed its pre-war surname, inherited from the young engineer Botton who was the first, in 1847, to propose a beautification plan for the new seaside town. Here, the project is a little particular and is not the result of the simple reference to the much claimed Brazilian architecture. It truly looks like a pastiche. This copy largely takes up, with scrupulous fidelity, the lines of the pavilion of the young Brazilian architect, Francisco Bolhona, intended to receive a thermal spring. Consisting of a very free reinforced concrete frame, floating on a succession of exterior posts arranged in a figure of 8 and lined with a light glass wall, this building is reminiscent of the playful nature of the bus station implemented at the same era. Polychrome coatings are added to the whole to accentuate the effect. Henri-Pierre Maillard and Armand Jourdain attest, with this exceptional project, to their active participation in Reconstruction. We owe them, among other things, the plans for the island of the former Café des Bains, above the port, where there too, the curves form the lines of the project.
Gallery Botton – Royan by Ol’est benaise
Tags : Royan, Charente-Maritime, Architecture, Modern, Market, Shopping mall, Unique bulding
