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September 2007:
Press visit to the Hôtel de la Marine work site |
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 A
press visit to the Hôtel de la Marine work site was
organized on 4 September 2007 to present the restoration work
on the listed building carried out by Bouygues under a skills
sponsorship agreement.
On the agenda: access to the scaffolding, tour of the halls
and Golden Gallery.
A press pack summarising the history of the project was distributed
on the occasion.
You can consult:
The
press release of 4 September 2007
The
press file
The
film outlining the first phase of works (produced
by the French Navy) French version only
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For more information
you can consult:
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Glossary
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Attic storey: top floor of a building,
set back from the façade and smaller in area than
the rest of the building.
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Drums:
cylinders of stone which, stacked,
form a column.
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Fluting: parallel
grooves used decoratively on the shaft of a column.
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Péristyle :
a colonnade surrounding part of a building,
forming a portico.
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Photo gallery
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General
views
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Hôtel de la Marine, seen from Place
de la Concorde (with trompe l'œil
scaffold wrap)
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Site hoarding with Navy
poster display
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| Peristyle |
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Corinthian capitals
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Detail of a stripped drum
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Column stripped of coatings
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Column with new stone inserts
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| Sculpted ceiling
coffers (peristyle) |
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Damaged coffer with
motifs representing architecture
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Coffer representing music
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Roofing |
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Damaged vaulting taken down
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Rebuilt gables
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(Updated: August 2007)  |
Hôtel
de la Marine
