# Skinny fabric building

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2024-01-26

architecture, development, european-urbanism, fabric-building, lyon, narrow-building, place-des-terreaux, planning, plaza, skinny-building, square, travel, urbanism

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This skinny 8-story building caught my eye in the Place des Terreaux in Lyon. I think a lot about these sort of small infill buildings because it is generally not how we build, today, in Toronto. But it’s a workhorse of a “fabric building”, and I can think of many streets that would be made better if only we encouraged this kind of built form. Truthfully, it’s probably most streets.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/skinny-fabric-building)*