Posted on 3/20/2016
the redevelopment project for the quay rambaud, located along the banks of the saône river in lyon, is part of a vast masterplan aimed at renewing the city’s confluence district, formerly an abandoned dockland.
as part of this development, paris-based architecture studio jakob + macfarlane designed two distinctive buildings: the orange cube, which completed in 2011, and the green cube, a design that forms the headquarters of euronews.
the scheme is conceived as a stretched cube, pierced by two conical atria — referred to as ‘eyes’ — that introduce daylight and air, while pro...