Le Garage Moderne
Nineteenth-century industrial hangar turned community workshop, once building tramways and aircraft fuselages.
This guide to Le Garage Moderne in Bordeaux opens with a question about eight hundred square meters that were promised and then vanished from a renovation plan. It traces the hangar back to Dyle et Bacalan, a metalworks formed in 1854, whose workers here built tramway cars, a Pic du Midi cable car and the metal skeletons of Breguet biplanes across two world wars. You'll hear how a mechanics' association took over the hall in 2003 and how, decades later, part of its old roof frame gave way, forcing engineers to reassess what the iron trusses overhead could still bear. Look up at those trusses while you listen for what they were once asked to carry.
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