Gare du Sud

Coordinates: 43°42′34″N 7°15′44″E / 43.70944°N 7.26222°E / 43.70944; 7.26222
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Gare du Sud
Chemins de Fer de Provence
Construction
ArchitectProsper Bobin
History
Opened1892
Closed1991

The Gare du Sud is a

Gare de Nice CP station, since the original station was closed in December 1991.[2] The Gare du Sud site then remained derelict until 2013, when the station building was renovated and converted into a library.[3]

The remainder of the station site was subsequently redeveloped into a food court, shopping centre and cinema as part of project to regenerate the Libération quarter. The main entrance is through the train station's original, restored 19th-century facade.[4]

History

The Gare du Sud when it was still operating as a station in November 1989

The station was designed by architect Prosper Bobin for the

Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Sud de la France and construction lasted from 1890 until June 1892. The station building, set back from the Avenue Malausséna, was designed in an elegant neoclassical style, and built at reasonable cost using new industrial materials. It had a monumental and imposing facade with a central high section flanked by two side pavilions, decorated with ceramic tiles, painted designs and picturesque stonework. Above this was a pitched roof with terracotta tiles, parapets and finials. The interior floor was marble.[3] Behind the station building and contrasting with it was a tall metal train shed, 23 meters wide, 18 meters high and 87 meters long, with a glass roof to cover the platforms for Grasse and Puget-Théniers. The train shed was originally designed by Gustave Eiffel for the Russian and Austro-Hungarian pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1889)
, and was added to the station in 1891.

The station allowed farmers from the surrounding countryside to bring their goods into Nice to sell at the Libération market.

state to the city of Nice in 2000 and there were plans to demolish the metal train shed and glass roof, and to dismantle the facade. Following public outcry, the Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres
blocked the plan in 2004.

Restoration and redevelopment

Nice's derelict Gare du Sud station, 2006.
The back of Nice's derelict Gare du Sud station, 2006.

The facade of the old station building was listed as a

historic monument in 2002 and the train shed was listed in 2005.[5] Although the station had been saved, its future remained uncertain for some time and several projects were proposed. One was for a number of artistic associations which had no proper base to move into the building. Another was the controversial proposal to transfer Nice's town hall
to the station site.

Plan of the station site

Following the failure of the 2000 demolition project, the town asked architect Pierre-Louis Faloci to create a new design which would preserve the entire passenger building as well as the metal train shed. His design proposed the erection above the station of a vast porch roof, a "shade", to be covered with 2000 square meters of electricity producing

solar panels.[6]
The proposal also included the construction of a media library and sports complex, as well as the rehabilitation of the School of Fine Arts, and creation of a 1300-space parking lot. The design was approved by the Ministry of Culture on 12 May 2005.

Interior of the Gare du Sud food court, 2019

The first phase of the project, the internal and external renovation of the station building, took place in 2013. Work was completed by December of that year and the building was re-opened on 4 January 2014. The new Raoul Mille library has been incorporated into the station's former waiting room and the building now houses multimedia rooms, meeting rooms and a climate-controlled storage basement.

fitness center, cultural center and offices.[4]

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ "Gare du Sud – food hall in Nice". French Riviera Travel. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  2. ISBN 978-1-78131-747-1
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  3. ^ a b c "Gare du Sud in Nice Reopens after Major refurbishment". Riviera Buzz. 9 December 2013. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ^ a b c "Gare du Sud". French Riviera Traveller. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. ^ Base Mérimée: Ancienne gare du Sud, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  6. ^ Barelli, Paul (20 October 2007). "Le transfert de la mairie de Nice devient un enjeu des municipals" [The Relocation of Nice Town Hall becomes a Political Game]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Quartier Gare du sud". www.nicecotedazur.org. Nice Côte d'Azur. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  8. ^ Andy Calascione (3 April 2015). "Nice: La Future Gare du Sud sur les rails" [Nice: The Future of the Gare du Sud is on track]. Le Petit Niçois (in French). Nice. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  9. ^ Dominic Thurlow-Wood (29 January 2015). "Gare du Sud renovation in full flow". The Riviera Times Online. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  10. ^ Jean-Pierre Largillet (16 June 2016). "Nice: la "Pyramide d'or" 2016 à la Gare du Sud!". Web Time Medias: Riviera (in French).
  11. ^ Fabien Binacchi (24 March 2018). "Nice: La grande halle de la gare du Sud se dévoile au public (juste pour un week-end)" [Nice: The main hall of the Gare du Sud is unveiled to the public (just for a weekend)]. 20 Minutes.
  12. ^ Celia Malleck (10 May 2019). "La halle de la gare du Sud ouvre dans une semaine" [The Hall of the Gare du Sud Opens in a Week]. Nice Matin (in French).

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