Bains et thermes de la Sauvenière

Remarkable modernist ocean-liner-style building with a reinforced-concrete frame, built from 1938 to 1942 to plans by Georges Dedoyard following a competition. The complex combined a bus station, two swimming pools and a full set of public baths (hydrotherapy, massage, sauna, solarium). The façade combines limestone, turquoise ceramic, labradorite and glass bricks; a vast hall almost 80 m long, covered by a barrel vault in translucent concrete, houses the pools, surrounded by stands seating 1,250. The site is today the Cité Miroir.

Translated from the French original.