Nantes
The decision surprises and angers the main actors of the project.
On September 15, the mayor-president (PS) of Nantes Métropole, Johanna Rolland, announced the burial of the Heron Tree.
A tourist and cultural attraction 35 meters high, imagined twenty years ago by the company La Machine, parent of the famous Grand Éléphant articulated, on the island of Nantes.
This “Nantes-style Eiffel Tower”, financed in three thirds (Nantes Métropole, public, private), was to open in 2027, but its estimated cost has exploded.
From 35 million to 52 million, then 80 million euros now, due to inflation and a complex legal arrangement.
“Given the context of social and ecological emergency, it is too much. Too much for Nantes residents. My responsibility is to choose, to explain and to assume”,
justifies Johanna Rolland.
Inventor of the Tree and artistic director of La Machine, François Delarozière is furious:
“It was done without negotiations, with…
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