Architecture & escape
Rennes vertical utopias: an escape for two
A tower born from a modernist dream. Half a century later, another way to experience height.
Rennes reinvented
When architecture set out to invent another way of living
In the aftermath of the war, Rennes did not simply want to rebuild. It wanted to imagine a new city.
Under mayor Henri Fréville, architects including Louis Arretche and Georges Maillols took part in that transformation. The modern city was imagined as open, luminous and vertical.
Villejean, Le Blosne and Le Colombier became testing grounds for new urban ideas. Light, air and views were no longer just matters of comfort: they became part of a broader vision of urban life.
To place this experience within the wider Love Horizons concept, discover our page dedicated to the history and architecture of the place.
Reinventing the city
Rennes entered a period of reconstruction and urban experimentation shaped by new architectural ambitions.
Les Horizons
Georges Maillols' twin tower became one of the most striking expressions of that period of confident verticality.
A change of scale
In the uppermost floors, Love Horizons turns that relationship with height and light into an intimate experience.
A utopia once imagined for an entire city can, half a century later, become a private escape for two.
The final arrow
Les Horizons, the peak of a modernist dream
Two white cylinders. A silhouette instantly recognisable across Rennes.
Inspired in part by Chicago's Marina City, Les Horizons embody an era's confidence in height and technology.
Designed by Georges Maillols and built in the early 1970s, Les Horizons marked one of the boldest moments in Rennes' architectural history.
The ARTE documentary “À Rennes, les utopies verticales” revisits that period and presents Les Horizons as one of the major statements of this vertical ambition.
After this period, large vertical housing projects gradually gave way to a lower and more horizontal urban landscape.
Watch the ARTE documentary →From collective to intimate
The same verticality, experienced in a completely different way
From housing to emotion
What once illuminated the apartments becomes part of the experience: natural light, the city below and carefully staged atmospheres.
From city to refuge
The verticality that structured the urban project becomes a way of gaining distance from everyday life.
From collective to private
The view, conceived as a quality of urban living, becomes the backdrop to an experience fully private for two.
Love Horizons
An experience made possible by the building itself
Love Horizons could not have been created anywhere else.
In the uppermost floors of Les Horizons, the suite turns height, light and panoramic views into an experience for two.
Where Maillols sought to bring light into collective housing, Love Horizons uses that architecture to create a refuge suspended between sky and city.
Discover the Love Horizons suite.
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Love Horizons
The vertical utopia is still here. Now it can be experienced for two.
A romantic suite 90 metres above Rennes, with private spa, hammam and panoramic views.
Direct booking · No service fees
