Tours Tramway

Tours councillors wanted to give their tramway project a rarely sought after coherence to the design of rolling stock and furniture, urban development and public lighting, urban strategy and public artworks...

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To this end a committee led by RCP (designer) produced and published guidelines.

It proposed to make the tramway a new feature within the city landscape.

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This imperative strongly marking the implantation of the tram along the axis which defines the city; carefully reworking the ground cover within the conservation area; developing a sustainable landscape project; and incorporating within the station, artwork by Daniel Buren …