For those who love architectural and historical walks, the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region is full of curiosities. After discovering the astonishing modernist Carmel de la Paix, built by the Spanish architect Josep Lluis Sert, you have to shine around to discover here a chapel signed Auguste Perret, there a bunker-style church by Paul Virilio.
The monumental dance school in Cluny
Within sight of the famous abbey, the building built in 2007 by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti, as contemporary as it is, blends with finesse into the surrounding ancient architecture. By alternating brick colonnades and bay windows, this center dedicated to the arts has a monumental façade on the facade that recalls ancient buildings, without taking on the air of pastiche. We walk around, to an observatory on the roof.
Rue des Tanneries, 71250 Cluny
The flat-roofed chapel in Chalon-sur-Saône
A rather austere and mysterious reinforced concrete cube accommodates the work built by architect Auguste Perret from 1928 to 1929, following an order from Canon Maurice Dutroncy, director of the private school in La Colombière. The bays, decorated with cross-shaped claustra, set stained glass windows produced by the master glassmaker Marguerite Huré with whom Perret had already worked for the Notre-Dame-du-Raincy church (Seine-Saint-Denis). Built quickly, the chapel of Colombière is architecturally close to that of Arcueil (Val-de-Marne), another work of the Perret brothers (1925). Classified as a historical monument since 1996, this chapel is abandoned. Its view from the outside is worth the detour because nothing suggests that it is a religious building with its flat roof. The heritage area of the city of Chalon organizes tours.
72, rue d’Autun, 71100 Chalon-sur-Saône
Nevers church bunker
Fans of brutalism will love the place very much. The church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, designed in 1966 by the architect Claude Parent and the town planner Paul Virilio, founders of the theory of oblique architecture, has two inclined planes as a nave sheltered by two half-shells of concrete. The interior is cryptic and looks like a protective cave. This religious building, which looks like a bunker from the Second World War, has been classified as a historical monument since 2000 and labeled “Heritage of the XXe century ”. The church is open on 1er Sunday of each month at 10:30 a.m. for mass. During the summer, open days are organized.
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