Thiers turn
The turn Thiers is a Immeuble great height located at Nancy, in the department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.
Description
It draws its name from the neighbor, it even named according to Adolphe Thiers.They are actually three buildings height increasing (respectively 45,75 and 90 Mètre S) and embedded one in another, which leads this unit to be sometimes seen indicating with the plural : the turns Thiers or more simply Thiers .
Dimensions which are retained are generally those of sound larger element which, with its 28 stages, culminates with 90 meters height. On the roof of this last a network of antennas is whose summit highest is to 104 m of the ground. It is most Gratte-ciel of Nancy and the second of the agglomeration.
Indeed, in the forefront is the Panoramic Tour, the Alders with Maxéville of which the height is of 96 m, face air-side (this tower being also capped antennas whose point highest is to 108 m of the ground).
It is it should be noted that in the vicinity of the Thiers turns other buildings great height such as the turns Joffre, Kennedy and Saint-Sebastien are.
The use of the Thiers turns is mixed: they shelter at the same time offices and a Hôtel (of the Mercure chain, then Park In since 2005) which benefits from the arriving flow of travellers of the station near.
In the night of the 6 to the May 7th 2006, 22:00 with 06:00, its frontage was the theater of 30 × 30 - Continuation, a spectacle during which it was illuminated by a projector whose movements were generated by computer.
Polemic
Before the construction of the tower, the Thiers place was surrounded by a whole of buildings partly of style Art nouveau: in addition to Excelsior, was the Thiers brewery there, and the Gare of Nancy itself was decorated with a Marquise out of riveted steel and grids. Among the other trade, a cinema, a pastry making, and breweries with their terraces. The workshop of Typographie of Is republican was in the vicinity, with the current site of an Irish tavern.On the place parking lots and lawns were.
At the time of replanning of the place and construction of the tower, the Nancy ones protested against what they regarded as a wart in the urban landscape.