Measures to change inhabitant’s opinion about architecture

Since 1983 the concunil has decided to take some measures to change inhabitant’s oipinion as ragerds typical architecture of the town. It is a long and hard work. You can see here some measures : 1983 : Participation in the 1st international symposium of reconstructed cities in Brest. 1986 : Analysis of concretes and publishing [...]

A nice town but nobody knows it…

Despite of the fact the bad opinion of Le Havre’s inhabitants, the town has some advantages. The problem consists only in the bad image. Advantages and characteristics of the town are little-known. That is why the town council has decided to launch a marketing policy in order to change Le Havre’s image by people from [...]

A result far from being unanimously disaprooved

Such a construction has not been well received. The result was not at all what Le Havre’s inhabitants expected from the rebuild by Perret. What is more surprising is the fact that Le Havre’s inhabitants were people, who were the most shocked by teh new aspect of their town. The result was not at all [...]

In 1953 French government decided to rebuild the town. So the the building site had been entrust to Auguste Perrey and his team. It was one of the most important architectural work of the last century.

A little bit of history…

Before the Second World War, Le Havre looked very different from today. Look at the photographs… Then, it is a well-known fact that the town was quite totally destroyed by the English bombardments. The lifes of Le Havre’s inhabitants have changed, and life in town centre was very difficult (for instance to find food was [...]