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Orange Cube
The Orange Cube is a design showroom and office building in the La Confluence quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France. Designed by the Paris-based architectural firm Jakob + MacFarlane, the building is best known for its orange color and hole-riddled cube shape, lending it the nickname "La Mimolette" after the similarly colored cheese. The Orange Cube was completed in 2011 at a cost of approximately €12 million, with a interior. It occupies a footprint. The building is the realization of Jakob + Macfarlane's winning design in a 2005 competition intended to create interest in the industrial Confluence area, 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 Jenna M. McKnight, "an extraordinary dialogue with the river, almost bringing it inside." Others, including Telerama Luc Le Chatelier and Valérie Disdier of the "Maison de l'architecture Rhône-Alpes" were more critical of the design. The Orange Cube's two facades are covered by twenty-five perforated, thermo-lacquered aluminum screens, all made locally.
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The Orange Cube is a design showroom and office building in the La Confluence quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France. Designed by the Paris-based architectural firm Jakob + MacFarlane, the building is best known for its orange color and hole-riddled cube shape, lending it the nickname "La Mimolette" after the similarly colored cheese. The Orange Cube was completed in 2011 at a cost of approximately €12 million, with a interior. It occupies a footprint. The building is the realization of Jakob + Macfarlane's winning design in a 2005 competition intended to create interest in the industrial Confluence area, 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 Jenna M. McKnight, "an extraordinary dialogue with the river, almost bringing it inside." Others, including Telerama Luc Le Chatelier and Valérie Disdier of the "Maison de l'architecture Rhône-Alpes" were more critical of the design. The Orange Cube's two facades are covered by twenty-five perforated, thermo-lacquered aluminum screens, all made locally.
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