Musée des Confluences, Lyon Building

Musée des Confluences

Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Crystal Cloud of Knowledge: The future society will be a society of knowledge. However this knowledge can hardly be split into clearly defined fields. Innovations develop within interspaces, within indistinctness, within the overlapping and hybridising.

Veolia Campus in Jonage, Campus Facility Building

Veolia Campus in Jonage

Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. Located in the eastern suburbs of Lyon, this innovative campus is arranged around a garden designed as an agora. The building houses a professional training centre for environment, energy, transport, waste and water sectors.

Olympique Lyonnais Stadium in Lyon

Olympique Lyonnais Stadium

Design: Populous. The largest new stadium built before this summer’s tournament, the Grand Stade de Lyon reflects the culture and community of the club and the city of Lyon.

Peace Footbridge in Lyon: Dietmar Feichtinger

Peace Footbridge

Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. The footbridge links the conference centre and St. Claire plus two major parks either side of the river. The bridge has a free span of 157m with an extremely slender structure.

Boarding House Saint-Genis Laval

Boarding House

Design: rue royale architectes. A co-educational 96-bed boarding house with communal areas in addition to the teaching facilities composed of several heterogeneous entities, located on the Coin estate, 12 kilometres from Lyon.

Part-Dieu Shopping Centre Lyon

Part Dieu Shopping Centre

Design: MVRDV. It is rare that architects summon up the notion of disappearing when designing their projects. The very essence of architecture is the exact opposite. It is there to be seen, displayed, to make an impression.

Hacine Cherifi Gymnasium Lyon: Rillieux-La-Pape

Gymnase Hacine Cherifi

Design: Tectoniques Architectes. Next to the schools with their pleated, green roofs, its size makes it an imposing, yet silent, neighbour. The building houses two sports halls and support services over a total surface area of 2,500 sqm.

Perrache-Confluence Substation Extension Lyon

Perrache Confluence

Design: rue royale architectes. It is rare that architects summon up the notion of disappearing when designing their projects. The very essence of architecture is the exact opposite. It is there to be seen, displayed, to make an impression.

Block 32 Lyon Building: Tectoniques Architectes

Block 32 - France Mixed Use Building 5

Design: Tectoniques Architectes. Block 32 occupies a strategic position in the vast programme to renovate the Duchère neighbourhood, in Lyon. The OPAC du Rhône housing association has produced a building which incorporates 33 social rental housing units, 1,500m2 of office space dedicated to health-related activities, and has retail space throughout the ground floor.

Confluence Institute Architecture, Lyon

Confluence Institute for Innovation and creative strategies in Architecture

Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture. Design: Studio Odile DECQ architectes urbanistes. The Confluence is a new institution for architectural education and research based on an evolving and radical understanding of research, experimentation and trans-disciplinarity.

La Passerelle in Trévoux, Lyon

La Passerelle in Trévoux

Design: Pierre Vurpas et Associés Architectes. A stone pebble cut like a diamond, a mineral forecourt that reaches out to draw in passers-by, a glass facade like an ever-changing skyscape, gilded like copper, words from the old French dictionary engraved into the glass panels, illuminated by curtains of woven metal: La Passerelle, a new cultural space for Trévoux, slots into the gap next to the hospital like a missing piece of the puzzle creating a perfect blend of history and contemporary architecture.

Passerelle de la Paix Lyon: Dietmar Feichtinger

Passerelle de la Paix, Lyon

Passerelle de la Paix, Lyon, France. Design by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. The Grand Lyon is building a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Rhone. The bridge will link the 6th arrondissement in Lyon to the Park of Saint‐Clair at Caluire‐et‐Cuire. On 12 December a highlight of the bridge construction will take place.

Ilot K block : Lyon Confluence housing

Ilot K block Lyon Confluence building design

The Ilot K block by Atelier Vera & Barrand Architectes explores a new method for making the city today. It holds a special place in the geography and the temporality of the development of the Confluence project in Lyon.

Villa B – new Lyon House

Villa B - new Lyon House

Villa B, new Lyon house, France – design by Tectoniques – Lyon residence, new French property, new villa in southern France