Turning fifty
While the qualities of
post-war architecture are only starting to be appreciated, several major
constructions have already disappeared. Others have been subjected to
renovation that has erased their original characteristics.
The famous Foncolin, the first building with an exposed frame, was demolished in 2001.
The famous Foncolin, the first building with an exposed frame, was demolished in 2001.
Enormous but magnificent, the pharaonic State Administrative Centre is currently in the process of disappearing.
The ground floor of this former hotel with service station is today walled up, while its façade punctuated by blue and grey glasal has lost all of its freshness, through lack of maintenance. The cheerful character it formerly presented is no longer easily perceptible.
Since the 1990s, high-rise buildings have, one after the other, been redressed with façades that enjoy up-to-date insulation performance.
Due to a lack of interest, renovations are conducted without proper judgement. Window frames with refined divisions and coloured sandwich panels disappear in favour of banal PVC models.
