Days of the matrimoine: Builders, women in Pantinoise architecture

Name: Days of the matrimoine: Builders, women in Pantinoise architecture
Start: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Hôtel de ville

Discover, with a speaker, six buildings designed or rehabilitated by women in Pantin.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Although the signatures of women-architects are not yet equal in quantity to those of men, their number continues to grow. The town hall district of Pantin has six buildings designed or rehabilitated by women. As part of the Matrimoine Days, come and discover them with a speaker.
More details in the full programme to be published in September https://patrimoine.ville-pantin.fr/

About the location

Hôtel de ville

45 avenue du Général Leclerc 93500 Pantin

Seine-Saint-Denis
Île-de-France

The Town Hall of Pantin embodies an important period of change in the systems of representation of municipal power during the Third Republic, both in terms of its location and its architecture. The choice of the site, halfway between the old centre and the district of Quatre-Chemins, between the canal and the recent railway tracks, responds to the demands of the inhabitants of Quatre-Chemins, who deplore their enclavity and their distance from public facilities. Based on the classical culture still in force in the last decades of the nineteenth century, the architect designed the town hall in the manner of a small neo-renaissance palace. Composed symmetrically, the building has a central body flanked by two side pavilions located in the forebody. The entrance hall has a central staircase that turns into two lateral flights to access the rooms on the first floor. Taking up the spatial hierarchy of the mansion, it leads to the «noble» floor of the town hall which includes the office of t