Suspended balconies above the void, a restaurant open to the landscape, a panoramic terrace — the project by Devaux & Devaux Architects in Haute-Savoie, winner of the 2024 Équerre d’Argent, offers an intense sensory experience. Perched on the rocky cliff at 1,100 metres, a remarkable concrete structure rises into the sky. This is the arrival station of the Salève cable car (Haute-Savoie): a composition of columns and walkways topped by a long volume resembling a zeppelin floating in the blue — or a ghostly vessel, depending on the weather. As the last bastion of the Jura chain, Mont Salève, its calm silhouette outlined against the Geneva sky (Switzerland), offers breathtaking views of the neighbouring Alps… Read the article
Suspended balconies above the void, a restaurant open to the landscape, a panoramic terrace — the project by Devaux & Devaux Architects in Haute-Savoie, winner of the 2024 Équerre d’Argent, offers an intense sensory experience. Perched on the rocky cliff at 1,100 metres, a remarkable concrete structure rises into the sky. This is the arrival station of the Salève cable car (Haute-Savoie): a composition of columns and walkways topped by a long volume resembling a zeppelin floating in the blue — or a ghostly vessel, depending on the weather. As the last bastion of the Jura chain, Mont Salève, its calm silhouette outlined against the Geneva sky (Switzerland), offers breathtaking views of the neighbouring Alps… Read the article
