EShe is still waiting for her landing point. The Olympic cauldron, which lit up the Parisian sky during the Olympic Games last summer, was dismantled at the end of the competition in September. But Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, had called for this symbol, like many others, to be preserved as a heritage. But finding a place that creates consensus is far from easy.
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As France Info reports, candidates are already starting to make themselves known. Among them is the Y hangar in Meudon, southwest of Paris. It is an art gallery founded in 1879, on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition. “With its iron structure and exposed bricks, its glass roof which bathes its interior in light and its curved and symmetrical lines, the Y hangar is an emblem of industrial architecture from the end of the 19th centurye century,” explains the venue’s website.
ALSO READ “My dream was that people would cry”: the Olympic cauldron seen by its creatorWhile this candidacy may be surprising, it could actually be quite coherent. Particularly at the architectural level: hangar Y has, in the past, hosted experiments on airships. It therefore has the right dimensions to accommodate a basin: 28 meters high, 40 meters wide and 70 meters long.
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The future history of the place also argues for this choice: “It is in particular from hangar Y that a closed-circuit airship will take off, for the first time in the world, which can return to its take-off point thanks to a electric motor. Like the Olympic cauldron, its flame operated from water, thanks to an electrified system,” defends Jean-Michel Crovesi, general director of the building.
According to The Parisianthe file was already submitted several weeks ago to the Île-de-France prefecture and Mathieu Lehanneur, the designer of the basin, went to Meudon to study the credibility of the project. But this candidacy is far from unanimous: “Meudon is not Paris,” believes a source who worked on the Olympic event.
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In addition, Hangar Y has a paid model, although it belongs to the State. A question far from trivial since the cost of the operation has already been budgeted: the maintenance and securing of the basin would be close to a million euros. Its return to service would cost around 2.5 million euros. Each reinflating would cost 300,000 euros. The choice of location should therefore have the advantage of being as economical as possible.
Another avenue explored: a return to the Tuileries, which had already hosted the cauldron during all the Olympic Games. But this return to Paris could only be one-off, for special occasions, for example on the occasion of the first anniversary of the competition. The decision should come quickly, before summer. With one important fact: the basin will no longer be turned back on. Tradition obliges, it can only shine brightly during the Olympic Games.
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