Hangar with bananas

The hangar with bananas is the name usually given to hangar 21 of the Port authority of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, otherwise named hangar Maurice Bertin. It is located in edge of the Loire along the quay of the Antilles, at the western end of the island of Nantes, with Nantes.

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Built the shortly after the second world war, this hangar, length of more than 150 m, broad and high 50 6,5 m m adds up a surface of 8.000 Mr. One stores there and makes mature until beginning of the year 1970 of bananas imported by fluvio-maritime way of Guadeloupe, Guinea or Ivory Coast.

With the favor of the slip of the activities of the port authority towards its terminals of Mounting block-of-Brittany and Saint-Nazaire, the hangar is closed down little by little and shelters nothing any more but some offices until the middle of the years 2000.

Work of rehabilitation, undertaken between September 2006 and June 2007 within the framework of the refitting of the island of Nantes where it is located, gives to the places one second life. Thanks to an architectural intervention voluntarily has minimum , the character emblematic of this building, symbol of the Nantes harbor inheritance, is preserved.

The governing idea is to create at this place, true view-point open on the Loire, the Quai of the Pit, Trentemoult and Chantenay, a place of life where it is possible to eat or take glass in interior or terrace, to dance and to have fun, with various atmospheres, with the image of the warehouses of Lisbon.

The hangar of the port authority for that is conceded in Néo Promotion, and the plans of refitting carried out by the agency of Roulleau architects, in partnership with Alexandre Chemetoff, in load of the refitting of the island of Nantes. The place, opened with the public in June 2007, offers a choice of bars, restaurants, a dicothèque, the spaces of leisure and 1.600 m dedicated to biennial of the visual arts “Estuaire”, imagined by Jean Blaise.

Located in the vicinity immediate of the gray goliath crane, the hangar with banana faces the Anneaux of Buren, work of the architect Daniel Buren.

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