(Gainsbourg wrote “Qui est ‘in’, qui est ‘out’” about the Bus Palladium.) Matthieu SalvaingThe original Bus Palladium was just two floors, an aberrant silhouette on Rue Pierre Fontaine’s row of Haussmannian buildings. To convert the club into a proper hotel, Studio KO had to demolish the existing structure, which wouldn’t have been able to sustain the six additional floors added to the building. They kept the iconic vertical red neon BUS PALLADIUM sign, my only clue I was in the right spot when I arrived at 6 Rue Pierre Fontaine. She also highlights another key draw of the Bus Palladium: its location.