Hotel in Timimoun
Algeria has devoted intense efforts in the housing and construction sector with new achievements with a modern appearance or linked to heritage while meeting the socio-economic requirements of the moment. They are also signs of prosperity, development and renewal.
The end of the 1970s saw the start of massive housing construction thanks to the creation of new urban housing zones (ZHUN) on the outskirts of cities. Each municipality had to put 200 lots of land up for sale per year. This is how we have seen villages go from a population of 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants in less than eight years.
The 1980s began with considerable growth in this housing policy. One of the oldest hotels in Algeria, L’Oasis rouge de Timimoun, has just undergone conservation and restoration work to serve as a cultural center. With its bell-shaped koubbas, its bas-reliefs with geometric figures and its small, cool pieces, it was inaugurated in 1921 by the Duchess of Luxembourg and André Citroën during a Saharan automobile crossing known as the “Black Cruise”.
In 1984, Algiers acquired a vast Palace of Culture commensurate with its civilizational heritage. Dedicated to culture, this infrastructure which opens onto the Annasser plateau, in Kouba, remains a privileged place for organizing national or foreign shows and previews in the fields of arts, sciences and culture, thematic meetings and conferences, as well as high-level exhibitions in a setting worthy of the Algerian capital.
The end of the 1970s saw the start of massive housing construction thanks to the creation of new urban housing zones (ZHUN) on the outskirts of cities. Each municipality had to put 200 lots of land up for sale per year. This is how we have seen villages go from a population of 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants in less than eight years.
The 1980s began with considerable growth in this housing policy. One of the oldest hotels in Algeria, L’Oasis rouge de Timimoun, has just undergone conservation and restoration work to serve as a cultural center. With its bell-shaped koubbas, its bas-reliefs with geometric figures and its small, cool pieces, it was inaugurated in 1921 by the Duchess of Luxembourg and André Citroën during a Saharan automobile crossing known as the “Black Cruise”.
In 1984, Algiers acquired a vast Palace of Culture commensurate with its civilizational heritage. Dedicated to culture, this infrastructure which opens onto the Annasser plateau, in Kouba, remains a privileged place for organizing national or foreign shows and previews in the fields of arts, sciences and culture, thematic meetings and conferences, as well as high-level exhibitions in a setting worthy of the Algerian capital.