Rails of memory

Lyon, France

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Rails of memory

Lyon, France

Firm

Blaising Borchardt Studio

Type

Cultural › Memorial

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

The memorial is located just a hundred meters from Perrache station, a key site of the deportations from Lyon. Its design is based on a simple yet powerful idea: to reuse railway materials (the rails, the wooden sleeper and the ballast) as a metaphor for deportation.

To reinforce this concept, the linear length of the rails used—1,173 meters—represents one-thousandth of the distance between the memorial site and the Auschwitz camps: 1,173 kilometers.

These elements, both real and symbolic, create a tangible connection to past events, inviting visitors to feel, to touch, and to remember.

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Rails of memory

Lyon, France

Rails of memory

Lyon, France

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