Orange Cube
The Orange Cube is a design showroom and office building in the La Confluence quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France.[1] Designed by the Paris-based architectural firm Jakob + MacFarlane,[2] the building is best known for its orange color and hole-riddled cube shape,[1] lending it the nickname "La Mimolette" after the similarly colored cheese.[3] The Orange Cube was completed in 2011 at a cost of approximately €12 million, with a 6,284 m2 (67,640 sq ft) interior.[4] It occupies a 29 m × 33 m (95 ft × 108 ft) footprint.[5]
The building is the realization of Jakob + Macfarlane's winning design in a 2005 competition intended to create interest in the industrial Confluence area,[1] one requirement of which was the inclusion of negative space; the building's two conical voids, as well as drawing in cool air, create, according to Architectural Record's Jenna M. McKnight, "an extraordinary dialogue with the river, almost bringing it inside."[6] Others, including Telerama's Luc Le Chatelier and Valérie Disdier of the "Maison de l'architecture Rhône-Alpes" were more critical of the design.[3] The Orange Cube's two facades are covered by twenty-five perforated, thermo-lacquered aluminum screens, all made locally.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "The Orange Cube by Jakob + Macfarlane". Dezeen. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
- ^ "Jakob + MacFarlane". Jakobmacfarlane.com. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ a b "Un ovni orange qui dérange". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 21 May 2010. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
- ^ a b Orange Cube, by Mark Lamster, in Architect Magazine; published May 2, 2011; retrieved December 26, 2019
- ^ "Femmes Architectes - Dominique JAKOB". Femmes Architectes (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-10.
- ^ "Orange Cube | 2011-05-16". Architectural Record. 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
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