Close to the Issy train station, Place Léon Blum, the work on the new Grand Paris Express station is going well and this district has already changed, will change and will therefore take part in the major urban renewal that disrupts Issy-les-Moulineaux over the last 15 years. How can these important changes fit in with a very present urban, architectural and artistic heritage?
To better consider the problem, we must agree on the definition of this heritage: there are certainly classified buildings and objects, but also many places, buildings and urban configurations that are part of the image of the city. Obviously complementary to the exciting monographic visits proposed by many connoisseurs, our questioning, embracing at least thirty sites, will concern itself with the new relations created by the recent operations, In the course of or to come, it will try to probe the modalities, the approvals, the difficulties or the impossibilities of such cohabitation.
We will start from the Val de Seine and Île Saint-Germain: we will be dominated by the Tour aux Figures de Dubuffet, we will be surprised by old industrial halls and the memory of the universal exhibition of 1867; we will think of the almost dead EDF tower built by the Montrouge workshop; we will pass by Our Lady of the Poor and will no doubt be stunned by the highly architectural stained glass windows of Leon Zack or by the interlocking volumes of the Synagogue; we will progress towards the city center, the City Hall and Saint-Étienne, we will see the remains of the old castle of the eighteenth century, we will cross many post-haussmannian constructions and especially Art Deco; we may be disoriented by two Armenian churches; we will go to the future station of line 15, place Léon Blum, then we will end up in Saint Lucia and the station of Moulineaux-Billancourt. We will have gone from the 12th century to tomorrow!