Le Garage Moderne
Nineteenth-century industrial hangar turned community workshop, once building tramways and aircraft fuselages.
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This guide to Le Garage Moderne in Bordeaux opens in the summer of 2023, in a hangar full of people fixing their own cars, when something overhead sends everyone out. It then goes back to Dyle et Bacalan, the metalworks that built tramway cars and seaplane hulls here, and to the neighborhood association that arrived in 2003 with a bring-your-own-car idea. Best heard standing back from the building, taking in the stone and brick shell.
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