Poste Honorat 1912-2008, the Trianum 2010

The Trianum

Here is how the General Inventory, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region described the Post Office before its destruction: “ The current post office is made up of two adjoining buildings: the first in the form of a small hotel from the beginning of the century, of massed plan, with an ordered facade: central pavilion in slight projection with monumental entrance (carriage door) surmounted a stone balcony and three bays upstairs. Four bays to the left, three to the right, with transom windows on the ground floor, highlighted by a flat keyed canopy and single bays upstairs. For the facade of rue Jacques Bory, we find in the left bay the same low window as on the main facade, topped by a stone balcony, and for the other bays, basket-handle bays on the ground floor. ground floor, with double windows upstairs. For the central bay, a rectangular window and a stone balcony on the first floor. The whole is crowned with a decorated architrave and a cornice, with small rectangular pediments. A later extension added warehouse buildings: a basement floor and a first level. It is a modular facade, composed on the upper floor of large square bays with brick tracery. The base transforms into garages on the slope.

The Poissonnier-Ferran architects have designed the facade cladding of the Le Trianum program so that it evokes “ buildings from the 30s", as if this building were to pay homage to the old postal sorting station which stood on this land. In addition to numerous accommodations, the Trianum hosts offices of the regional delegation of the SNCF as well as the “Citéa Appart’Hôtel” hotel.