Cours des 50-Otages
1941
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The Cours des 50-Otages is Nantes's central urban artery, created by filling in the bed of the Erdre where it ran through the city center, a project begun in March 1938 and inaugurated as the cours de l'Erdre in July 1941. The resulting…
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- 1991
By 1990 the cours had become a six-lane urban motorway. An international competition held alongside the second tram line selected the scheme of the urbanist Bruno Fortier and the architect Italo Rota in March 1991, which cut the…
Bruno Fortier, Italo Rota
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