Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille
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Metamorphosis of a remarkable building.
HousingequipmentsrenovationHeritage
Project
Hôtel-Dieu de Marseille
Client
Cogédim
Location
Marseille, France
Delivery
2013
Surface Area
22,000 m²
Architects
Bechu & Associés
PERFORMANCES
Listed as historical monument, mipim award 2014
Photographers
© Philippe Conti
© Pierre-Élie de Pibrac
This urban lighthouse open to the old port.
Since its foundation in 1188, the hôtel-dieu has watched over the health of marseille's inhabitants. This urban lighthouse open to the old port has just substituted its ghost ship appearance for the lavish attire of a flagship of high-end hospitality flying the intercontinental flag.
The five-star hotel has humbly slipped into the existing volumes respectfully restored.
The challenge of this new design for the hôtel-dieu is coupled with a challenge of urban recomposition to reweave the link between the former hospital enclosure and the city, between the old port and the panier district, between history and the future, heritage and modernity. Without giving up any of the legitimate expectations of its future guests, the five-star hotel has humbly slipped into the existing volumes respectfully restored that it enhances and whose history bequeaths it an interior landscape and architecture conducive to the permanent wonder of visitors.
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