For the 17th edition of the SIMI, tradeshow of Real estate compagnies 2018, Eiffage, AIA Architects, Scaprim and Crédit Agricole received, on Friday, December 7th, the Special Prize of the Jury for the reconversion of the Grand Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon, biggest reconversion of an ancient memorial in France.
The Grand Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon is one of the most symbolic projects of the Lyon urban district and France, concerning the reconversion of a prestigious Ancient memorial and the creation of a new district to be lived at the heart of the city center, in a zone registered on the World heritage of the Humanity by the UNESCO, since 1998.
In 2015, Crédit Agricole Assurances, and the Caisse Régionale of Crédit Agricole Centre-Est, acquire with Eiffage Construction the entire constructions with the exception of the International Cité of the Gastronomy, which will be handed at its delivery to the Metropolis of Lyon. Both investors attributed the management of the site to Scaprim.
- 17,100 m² of shops, shops and restaurants,
- 13,600 m² of offices,
- a 5* Intercontinental Resort of 144 rooms,
- a convention centre of 2,900 m²,
- a gastronomy city of 3,600 m²,
- 11 dwellings,
- 8,000 m² of outdoor spaces.
The ambition of this project is to reinterpret the history while asserting the identity of the place to immortalize the sense. The project joins in an architectural continuity seizing at the same time the complexity of the site. It reveals a rich building, a fruit of a remarkable architectural synthesis, a place in perpetual transformation as proves it all its history.
His second breath, the Grand Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon, will find it again as the crossroads of social and professional life that it has been over the centuries. An open and dynamic space that offers a multitude of services and activities to Lyonnais and occasional visitors.