Location: Lyon, France.

Architect: Chaix & Morel et Associés.

SKY 56 is a high-rise building located in the Part-Dieu South Sector of the Lyon 3rd arrondissement. The project site is strategically positioned near rail tracks, with optimal visibility, accessibility, and a pleasant environment. The project aims to promote simple performance, optimize visibility and attractiveness for tenant companies, innovate to create an open and connected place, develop real exchange spaces, offer a full range of services, and anticipate future working methods. The design of SKY 56 responds to three challenges: to mark the new south entrance to the district with a strong and emblematic architecture, to design a project open to the city and provide innovative, stimulating, and pleasant living and working spaces. The building materials and construction techniques were chosen for their durability, aptitude to ageing, ease of cleaning and maintenance. The silkscreen facade is composed of modules that can be changed independently of other modules. SKY 56 provides 31,500m² that combines tertiary, new uses and facilities on 14 levels that culminate at 56m in height. The common building core includes banks of passenger and service lifts, stairwells, service ducts, and toilets. The advantages of large floor plates are their modularity and their subdivisions. Each level can be divided into four entities which provide flexibility in floor layouts, and future use, and maximizes commercial flexibility. The facilities include a lobby, restaurant, business centre, nursery, health club, shops, and roof deck. SKY 56 has an advanced overall environmental approach that obtained double certification – BREEAM and HQE® Excellent (RT 2012 – 55%). The project design readily adapted to the Well Certification, which focuses on the well-being and health of users. SKY 56 is the first French high-rise building certified Well.

Photo credit: Renaud Araud and Didier Boy de la Tour.