City Hall

Built by Maurice Novarina, Head of Civil Construction and the National Palaces, the city hall was part of the constructions carried out for the 20th Winter Olympic Games of Grenoble in 1968. It was designed by architects Giovannoni, Christin and Welti and was inaugurated on ec. 18, 1967.
A twelve-story tower houses the city's technical services and a lower building which encloses a patio, houses the mayor's and elected officials' offices, public rooms, and multi-purpose rooms split between the raised ground floor and the second floor.
The lower building, founded on drilled concrete posts with reinforced concrete girders, is built of twin pillars and caisson timbers of 14 meters, allowing for vast open spaces between the load-supporting points.

Some of the pillars were built outside the curtain-wall, thus encircling the building with an ample concrete colonnade topped with a cornice of the same material. The curtain-wall was designed by the architect Jean Prouvé.
The tower is supported by the lower building by a caisson timber, similar to a 23 meter span, resting on two piles that are deeply anchored in the ground and that house the elevator shafts, the stairwells, and the technical lockers.
This audacious layout makes it possible to open up the entire public hall with the ceilings two stories over head and a raised floor.
The tower is surrounded by a curtain-wall whose insulated windows and enamel-coated spandrel glass are assembled on spun aluminum strainers, specially designed for the project. They also act as a sun shade.

The city hall houses a large number of works of art, commissioned with reputable artists. The patio, whose floor is covered with a marble-tile mosaic created by Charles Gianferrari, is decorated with a granite fountain crowned with a bronze statue, created by the Romanian-born sculptor Etieen Hajdu.

A Carraras marble sculpture by Emile Gilioli is located in the honor hall.
The marriage hall is decorated with a tapestry designed by Alfred Manessier and woven by Plasse-Lecaisne. A tapestry by Raoul Ubac, woven in the Gobelins work shop hangs opposite an embossed tin panel by Sabatier in the reception salon. The tapestry was a gift from the Artistic creation department of the Minister of Cultural Affairs.
The building is labeled "20th century heritage."