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Saint-Nazaire (săN-näzĕr`), city (1990 pop. 66,087), Loire-Atlantique dept., W France, at the mouth of the Loire River on the Bay of Biscay. Saint-Nazaire is an important seaport (mainly for trade with the Antilles and Central America) and a great shipbuilding and industrial center with aeronautical, metallurgical, chemical, and food industries. It is a port for the French navy. Built on the site of an ancient Gallo-Roman town, Saint-Nazaire belonged to the dukes of Brittany in the 14th and 15th cent. A major German submarine base during World War II, Saint-Nazaire was nearly destroyed by Allied bombing. Saint-Nazaire a port in NW France, at the mouth of the River Loire: German submarine base in World War II; shipbuilding. Pop.: 65 874 (1999) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Working with existing buildings has become a consistent theme of Jakob + MacFarlane's work, from the Fanal Theatre in Saint Nazaire (AR April 2005), which reuses the shell of the city's defunct train station, to perhaps their best known project, the remodelling of the restaurant at the Pompidou Centre (AR July 2000). PARIS -- Technip (Paris:TEC) (EURONEXT:TEC) (NYSE:TKP) (ISIN:FR0000131708) has been awarded by Diester Industrie a turnkey contract for a new biodiesel (*) unit, based on the Axens process, to be built in Montoir-de-Bretagne, near Saint Nazaire, France. In the case of Barkow Leibinger's new cultural centre in Boblingen (p40) and Jakob MacFarlane's theatre in Saint Nazaire (p44, which reuses the shell of the city's former train station), there is also an emphasis on reconstituting fractured urban fabric and reusing old buildings. |
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