One of the three first ones in France, the Archives Service of Bordeaux reveal itself by the volume and the diversity of its funds.

In 2006, the City of Bordeaux decided to relocate the Archives in a new building, the oldest railroad warehouse of Bordeaux, at the heart of the Zac Bastide-Niel, on the right bank of the Garonne.

This unique place is specifically conceived to respect the current requirements for preservation of the documents and to welcome the public. 

In 2010, the prize-winner of the international competition, Paul Robbrecht, of the agency Robbrecht in Daem of Gand,  imagines a striking architecture to preserve the Archives of the City. He is recognized internationally for his reconversions of industrial buildings in cultural and patrimonial facilities.

Profoundly marked by the mass and the alignment of file boxes , " these moments of compacted history " , the architect works on the height and not the space.

Today, in this monumental building with human scale, 13 kilometers of archives, documents of all kinds, registers, plans, engravings, photos align themselves methodically. 

A unique place inaugurated on Thursday, March 10th, 2016 by Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux Métropole.