From Oslo and Lisbon to Hamburg and Amsterdam, the last 20 years have seen many of Europe’s redundant urban dockyards transformed into architectural zoos, peppered with signature structures by top-tier architects, often with greater regard for novelty than for the particularities of history or place. In Lyon—France’s affluent second city—derelict wharves on a narrow peninsula between the Rhône and Saône rivers are rapidly metamorphosing into a residential, cultural, and business district called Confluence. Among the renovated warehouses at its southern tip, new offices in eye-watering colors and a self-consciously iconic museum vie for attention.
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