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The Orange Cube is a design showroom and office building in the Confluence region of Lyon, France. Designed by the Paris-based architectural firm Jakob + Mcfarlane and completed in 2010, the building is best known for its orange color and hole-riddled cube shape, lending it the nickname "La Mimolette" after a similarly orange cheese.

The building is the realization of Jakob + Mcfarlane's winning design in a 2006 competition intended to create interest in the industrial Confluence area, one requirement of which was negative space; the building's two conical voids, as well as drawing in cool air, create “an extraordinary dialogue with the river, almost bringing it inside." The Orange Cube's two facades are covered by twenty-five perforated, thermo-laquered aluminum screens, all made locally.