Wood Table Outlines Blueprints

Rives de Saone

"Art, city and nature"

L e last weekend it was nice to Lyon as if spring had taken a small lead. You should have seen along the Rhone, the influx of all the strollers descended on the shores of all ages, families, couples, friends, come enjoy the first rays of sun on foot, by bike or on rollerblades. That's what allow the banks of the Rhone in our city, of relaxation, conviviality, the sweetness of life and fun to share together the beauty of these public spaces. This quality of town, we now want to expand the scale of our town, along the banks of the Saone , while giving this beautiful urban development project more soul , incorporating a large artistic component.

Ilex Landscape Planning

Yesterday I went to Paris at the Grand Palais , present to the national press and international "River Movie", a concept that we have selected for this waterfront development of the Saone. Beside me was the artistic director of this flagship project, Jerome Sans . He is the former director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and currently leads the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. "The Saone Lyonnais will find!" has also nicely titled L'Express evokes " a real homecoming that operating Lyon with its impressive project banks of the Saone ..." L has great originality, it is true, takes as its magnitude at its design, its process same: artists and master builders working hand in hand, to draw a coherent over a length of fifty miles through 14 municipalities and 5 counties of Lyon . That is, I believe, sufficiently rare to be underlined.

" Saône sometimes wild, sometimes capricious or mysterious ..."

original project design because it places the center of the artistic construction of the city, questioning the way the report public works, the relationship between art and uses. " River Movie" and fit into the overall approach we are conducting for the Grand Lyon, the levers of development, economic dynamism and culture.

A Confluence , so we have built a new headquarters and flagship sustainable against mingling the waters of the Rhone and Saone. Between Vaulx-en-Velin and Villeurbanne, the leisure of Silk Square has revived East Lyon who needed it. For these banks, the same desire that m ' runs with our teams to strengthen the identity u not mainland harmoniously combining city and nature, to make it a place of all meetings. Go to the Saône, is to turn both to the past and the future. Unlike Rhone whose surroundings have fostered a homogeneous architecture, the banks of the Saone, shaped by a river sometimes quiet, sometimes raw, provide a panorama of contrasts, surprising. A Saône who can show sometimes wild, sometimes whimsical, even mysterious.

Tadashi Kawamata

All stakeholders project understand these issues. Lyons schools of architecture and landscape artists associated with the contemporary international art scene will make us the greatest gift, that of discovery and dreams, making them tu the shores and hillsides. Like me, v ou will be surprised by the variety of proposals from this new dialogue for a development project of this magnitude. One of the largest, if not the largest in Europe, this dimension integrating public art . The combined talents are at work to invent this new section of shoreline that I am course, tomorrow will enchant the audience as could be yesterday, the banks of the Rhone.