La Tête Carrée
This was our last day in Nice and we wanted to spend a bit of quality time in the city. My aim was to take a photo of the Nice Notre-Dame cathedral, but I also was intrigued to get a photo of this building, La Tête Carrée. There was a lot of building work going on, so I had to take a photo through a gap in the fence!
A monumental sculpture standing 28m high, La Tête Carrée looms over one of Nice’s busiest intersections. Meaning “square head”, La Tête Carrée is literally a 14m³ cube with a mouth and chin nested on a rounded pair of shoulders.
Inaugurated in 2002, La Tête Carrée is the work of Sacha Sosno, a French sculptor who spent much time in the company of other celebrated local artists such as Henri Matisse and Yves Klein. It is an iconic building that, at the time, was the first inhabited monumental sculpture in the world. Also titled, “Thinking Inside the Box," the giant square head houses 3 floors of books within the central library, “Bibliothèque Louis Nucera. (From www.seenice.com/sights/tete-carree)
La Tête Carrée
This was our last day in Nice and we wanted to spend a bit of quality time in the city. My aim was to take a photo of the Nice Notre-Dame cathedral, but I also was intrigued to get a photo of this building, La Tête Carrée. There was a lot of building work going on, so I had to take a photo through a gap in the fence!
A monumental sculpture standing 28m high, La Tête Carrée looms over one of Nice’s busiest intersections. Meaning “square head”, La Tête Carrée is literally a 14m³ cube with a mouth and chin nested on a rounded pair of shoulders.
Inaugurated in 2002, La Tête Carrée is the work of Sacha Sosno, a French sculptor who spent much time in the company of other celebrated local artists such as Henri Matisse and Yves Klein. It is an iconic building that, at the time, was the first inhabited monumental sculpture in the world. Also titled, “Thinking Inside the Box," the giant square head houses 3 floors of books within the central library, “Bibliothèque Louis Nucera. (From www.seenice.com/sights/tete-carree)