Again, the very good feeling about this is it's (for once and maybe the very 1st time in France) properly embedded in the older fabric.
However, notice that ugly parking garage right next to the tower in the time-lapse video...
Cladding looking good, in the middle of the 19th century urban fabric of Lyon. This is a complete novelty in France (building a skyscraper right inside a historic city center)!
In those pictures taken yesterday by Villeman from SSC, the tower has reached slightly less than half its final height.
By saônant showing it's more slender than other towers in Part-Dieu.
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Héhé, their soccer fans must be like . They lost the French League cup final to Paris last night, because of a mistake of the referee.
Bah... If only they could tear down that gross cylindrical parking garage of the last picture, that'd be a better win.
More integrated into the city streetscape and thinner than the other skyscrapers in France.
This is looking good. I have pictures that I will post tomorrow.
That was a heck of a post. He seemingly took all these yesterday, and I'm not even bringing everything ...
Well, don't be surprised. It's just that Lyon temper and their damn pride for their city.
The white spandrel panels to a side of the façade remind of a traditional international style of the 1960s. I can't remember what the overall specs of the building said, but the rest of it seems double-skinned depending on orientations.
They don't mind about wires over there, which is a little unusual in France. In Fact, the most historic and original district in Lyon is a large medieval and early Renaissance site (the largest from that era remaining in France, one of the largest on the entire continent along with that of Venice, Italy) called Vieux Lyon. So everything seen here is quite much much later locally.
This tower is shaping up really nicely. The white spandrels and rounded corner also remind me of the International Style, which in my mind is a great thing.
Those grey bars on the right of the new tower are a ludicrous disgrace. The Lyonnais forum can't repeat enough how much something must be done about that.
Otherwise, the cladding does seem to work. At least, the effect on that picture is pretty cool.
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. They lost the French League cup final to Paris last night, because of a mistake of the referee. 
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