The Maison Folie Wazemmes is a cultural facility of the City of Lille, opened on the occasion of the Lille 2004 event, the European Capital of Culture. This former textile mill was rehabilitated by the Dutch agency Nox and the architect Lars Spuybroek accompanied by Ducks Scéno (Stylized as dUCKS scéno) a French company based in Villeurbanne specializing in scenography and museography. for the design of the scenography of the 250-seat auditorium and the recording studio and Flanders Analyzes for the acoustic studies, to become in 2004, the house Folie Wazemmes.Maison folie de Wazemmes
Description The old factory, made up of two buildings arranged face to face and separated by an interior street, now contains exhibition rooms, spaces for creation and residence, an inn, and a meeting room. conviviality, work rooms. A new building with a metallic cladding serves as a performance hall. We wander from one space to another along the second interior street, a strong traffic axis in the district. It is located at 70 rue des Sarrazins in the Wazemmes district. Bibliography Laissez vous conter la maison folie Wazemmes, Service ville d'art et d'histoire, 2011
See also Official site.
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