Salève Cable Car
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE WORKS
90 years after its inauguration, the Salève Cable Car is getting a makeover. To mark the occasion, a “foundation stone” ceremony was held on 3 June. Held under the auspices of the Local Cross-Border Cooperation Grouping for the Salève Cable Car (GLCT TS), it brought together the authorities, local bodies and organisations of the area, the clients and the project designers around a shared commitment: to rise to the many challenges of a flagship project in terms of the conservation and enhancement of built and landscape heritage, soft mobility, tourism and spatial planning.
Multiple challenges, a fitting response
The aim is to complete Maurice Braillard’s emblematic work, which remained unfinished, and to add a new contemporary programme. On the one hand, restoring the original fair-faced concrete structure and fitting out the restaurant in the panoramic room intended for that purpose. On the other, adding a conference room and service spaces. Finally, at ground level, creating a low L-shaped volume housing reception, information and catering spaces, thereby forging a link with the Salève landscape that also supports a vast panoramic terrace overlooking Grand Genève.
Overseeing the rehabilitation of this building, recently listed on the inventory of historic monuments in France, is one of the core missions of the Fondation Braillard Architectes. It is in tune with the Foundation’s twofold commitment to the conservation of 20th-century heritage and to the future of 21st-century Grand Genève, and its transformation through planning that meets the demands of the ecological transition.
