Lille Tower

A direct line, at the same bridge and tower, a great angle drawn up towards the sky creates a enigmatic presence which floats on the city. In Euralille, Rem Koolhaas imagined a series of towers of 120 meters spanning the railway tracks and giving the TGV station an air of freedom thanks to a square which descends through. The tower built by Christian de Portzamparc is in the center, above the station even, where no support is possible. The two piles of the bridge and the jamb, allow the stability of the Tower. On the square, at the Southern entrance, a building of five stages accompanies the pile. The tower, detached, is in suspension. No edge is parallel to another. The building defines parallelism on all its faces, which disturbs ones perception, what can one make of its logic, its height, its coordinates. It is like object in levitation.