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Centre commercial dessiné par Claude Parent

Sens, Yonne, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Le centre commercial en totalité (cad. ZD 588, 589, lieudit " Tout-Va ") : inscription par arrêté du 10 juin 2011
Protection dates
2011/06/10 : inscrit MH
Type
centre commercial
Main period of construction
3e quart 20e siècle
Dates
1970
Architect or builder
Parent Claude (architecte)
Ownership
propriété d'une société privée
Address
route de Maillot
Lieu-dit
Tout-Va
Commune
Sens
Département
Yonne
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
48.18704, 3.30348
Mérimée reference
PA89000047

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1821 map "Etat-Major Paris 1:10,000 (c. 1821)" (IGN France — Géoportail).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'architecte Claude Parent conçut ce centre commercial ouvert en 1970 sous l'enseigne GEM. Il fait partie de la série des quatre supermarchés réalisés pour GEM entre 1968 et 1970 dont il est l'exemplaire le mieux conservé. Il repose sur le principe de la fonction oblique participant de la théorie du déconstructivisme, éliminant l'orthogonalité et l'organisation spatiale de la cité à partir de plans inclinés parcourables et vivables de façon continue dans les trois dimensions.

English translation

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Architect Claude Parent designed this shopping centre opened in 1970 under the name GEM. It is part of the series of four supermarkets realised for GEM between 1968 and 1970 of which it is the best-preserved example. It is based on the principle of oblique function participating in the theory of deconstructivism, eliminating orthogonality and spatial organisation of the city from inclined planes traversable and liveable continuously in three dimensions.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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