LYON | Incity | 170 m / 560 ft (roof) | 37 floors - Page 3

mousquet · #41 Posted **Oct 18, 2014, 11:36 AM**

^ These last 2 are great! I can't help quoting the couple of towers seen from the very medieval alleys.

That's hot and definitely unique, even in Europe. In fact, I'm confident in this city, it's got some serious assets.

New Brisavoine · #42 Posted **Nov 10, 2014, 12:17 AM**

mousquet · #43 Posted **Nov 12, 2014, 10:19 PM**

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Very cool shot. For once, it feels like our actual homeland growing. Nothing like a dear lion in holy France.

New Brisavoine · #44 Posted **Dec 2, 2014, 2:56 PM**

Pictures of the Lyon skyline taken last week.

SCROLL >>>>>>>

Minato Ku · #45 Posted **Feb 7, 2015, 9:37 PM**

Today

Minato Ku · #46 Posted **Feb 10, 2015, 7:54 PM**

Few other pictures from this afternoon

KevinFromTexas · #47 Posted **Feb 10, 2015, 11:55 PM**

Nice. Sweet pano up there of the skyline. This building suits the city, I think.

HiRiser · #48 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:18 AM**

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Nice. Sweet pano up there of the skyline. This building suits the city, I think.

Yes and no. I think the curtainwall could have blended into the historic environment a tad more with some external features such as Brise Soleil, or a diagonal banding of sorts.

mousquet · #49 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 12:12 PM**

There'll be more and more tall buildings over that district anyway. Eventually, that building will end up feeling random. It's been said earlier, the major change by French habits is its layout. Instead of being stuck in awkward and cold empty surroundings like they used to do over here in the post-war era, this is just simply embedded along a street to the fabric around, in a more American fashion like it would be almost regular already. That's what makes it better.

New Brisavoine · #50 Posted **Mar 19, 2015, 11:54 PM**

Tour Incity is nearing completion. Pictures taken last Tuesday by Minato Ku.

And on Wednesday by Villeman:

mousquet · #51 Posted **Mar 21, 2015, 1:16 PM**

^ Nice shots from Minato. More details from villeman on SCC, it's close to completion.

There's a whole half of a side of it still uncladded because of both the crane and the external elevator to take materials up there.

BTW, the Lyon is moody and might steal the French soccer league title from Paris this season, huh.

Hell... That's life, I guess.

Lol of course, I basically don't give a damn and I'm looking forward to more high-rises over their business district anyway. Some mixed-use, please, if possible...

Minato Ku · #52 Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 1:03 AM**

1st April

New Brisavoine · #53 Posted **Apr 23, 2015, 11:48 AM**

Latest view of Tour Incity, by Gilles Aymard.

mousquet · #54 Posted **May 3, 2015, 2:17 PM**

SSC's villeman shot it in various weather conditions. Showing his pictures side by side is better in this case. Scroll horizontally if needed.

The glass looks thick like the tower is double-skinned to 3 sides of it. So it doesn't match the most fashionable and transparent materials sometimes featured in London or in North America, which I find remarkably nice looking, myself, but it doesn't necessarily mean it would be mediocre or even particularly cheap either. Today's French standards just promote effective functionality more than shiny aspects, so its energy and cost efficiency rating might be pretty interesting. Besides, it still looks ok, adding value to the district anyway.

New Brisavoine · #55 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 12:16 PM**

Tour Incity is now complete (major construction work ended, full antenna installed, crane removed). Here are a few pictures taken in the past month.

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A view taken on August 28 by ShaneAndRobbie on Flickr:

For comparison, this is the render we had before construction (red caption mine). So, looks resembling?

Here compared to downtown Cincinnati, for an idea of size:

Taken at sunrise with the barrier of the Alps in the distant background (I believe the tallest mountain visible is the Mont-Blanc, 15,780 ft), by WornCherry Rock on Flickr:

By Olivier F, on Flickr:

By Franz Erlenberg, on Flickr:

By Samolymp, on SSC:

By Phillipe Rémy, on Flickr:

By Guillaume Noailles, on Flickr:

MolsonExport · #56 Posted **Sep 9, 2015, 1:05 AM**

It was 99% finished when I was in Lyon this past May.

mousquet · #57 Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 5:53 PM**

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Here compared to downtown Cincinnati, for an idea of size:

First, no matter how exciting it tries to be, the tune you posted sounds lower-end. And still, they can sing some pretty interesting ones in French.

Second and above that, I can't really get the point of comparing Lyon to Cincinnati yet. I mean, Lyon, "capital of the Gauls" was founded so damn long ago that I can't tell exactly when. Sometime before Christ... And you can easily tell by its urban fabric.

Oh, and that Eva outline still seems far from actually standing. I think a couple of more moderately tall highrises will seat there first, so the skyline looks less awkward.

mousquet · #58 Posted **Nov 14, 2015, 4:40 PM**

I like this picture a lot.

http://www.pikore.com/m/1074148926091277846_469960620

Not so much for the towers, actually. It's mostly that it shows in the foreground how to build a fine contemporary street.

photoLith · #59 Posted **Nov 14, 2015, 6:22 PM**

Wow what a freaking gorgeous city.