The cove tower, A46 north

The tower of anse, A46 north

Anse, France

PROJECT COORDINATION FOR Piotr KOWALSKI

Designed to make an anonymous motorway interchange between the A46 and the A6 just outside the city of Lyon in France the sculpture consists of an open metal structured tower or ‘lighthouse’. A hi-tech tension compression structure composed of superposed double tetrahedral cells, dimensioned according to an natural exponential sequence, holds aloft a red beacon (75m) to signal the presence of the nearby city at a scale appropriate to a national transport network.

ABOUT

CLIENT

Paris Rhine Rhône Highways Company

 

CONTRACTOR

Cegelec

 

Height

75 METRES

 

COST

610k HT

 

HANDOVER

1992