“You can’t apply with a ox cart!” We need a rolls. »» It is with this Matamore language that Christian Estrosi, mayor (horizons) of Nice, announced, in February 2022, the redevelopment of the Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art (Mamac), the keystone of his application for the European Capital Label of Culture 2028. The project of reconfiguring the walk of the Paillon, the Green Space of 12 hectares where the museum was erected in 1990 Then entrusted to the Portuguese architect Joao Luis Carrilho Da Graça, associated with landscaper Alexandre Chemetoff.
Three years later, nothing is going well. Nice failed to win the precious European capital label of culture, won by the city of Bourges. And the municipality has just separated from Joao Luis Carrilho da Graça. “The project rendered by the architect was too far from the set program”can be read in an elliptical press release published on February 26. A new architect’s consultation must be launched.
Contacted by the WorldJoao Luis Carrilho da Graça said he was surprised at the reason invoked to terminate his contract. Contesting this “Unilateral decision”the Portuguese architect filed, on February 28, an appeal and a request for compensation to the administrative court of Nice.
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