Utopia
La Part-Dieu
Architects: Jacques Perrin-Fayolle, Jean Sillan and Jean Zumbrunnen, under the direction of Charles Delfante (1967 -1983)
Location: Lyon, France
This experiment in new urbanism is the second largest business district in France after the Paris project, "La Defense". It was conceived in the late 60s and built mostly in the early 70s by a group of architects largely under the influence of Le Corbusier and the late modernists of the time. It mixes office space, a transportation hub and train station, Lyon's largest shopping mall, a performance art theater, the central food market, and residential towers. Typical of the time period, it's a collection of concrete brutalist mid-rise and high-rise towers, set back from the street, with large, expansive concrete plazas that are largely empty and somewhat disaffected.
Utopia
La Part-Dieu
Architects: Jacques Perrin-Fayolle, Jean Sillan and Jean Zumbrunnen, under the direction of Charles Delfante (1967 -1983)
Location: Lyon, France
This experiment in new urbanism is the second largest business district in France after the Paris project, "La Defense". It was conceived in the late 60s and built mostly in the early 70s by a group of architects largely under the influence of Le Corbusier and the late modernists of the time. It mixes office space, a transportation hub and train station, Lyon's largest shopping mall, a performance art theater, the central food market, and residential towers. Typical of the time period, it's a collection of concrete brutalist mid-rise and high-rise towers, set back from the street, with large, expansive concrete plazas that are largely empty and somewhat disaffected.