Cap Sciences
Riverside science center built inside a former port hangar, deliberately turned to face the tidal water.
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This guide to Cap Sciences in Bordeaux starts with a habit nearly every old warehouse on this quay followed, turning its back to the Garonne, and the science center that broke it on purpose. You'll hear how it began in 1994 as a small association running shows out of a borrowed hangar, outgrew that space fast, and became Hangar Twenty when Bordeaux architect Bernard Schweitzer opened his purpose-built home for it in 2002. The guide follows his stubborn choice to orient the new building toward the water rather than the road, exposing beams and joints along the way.
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