The new Les Quinconces cultural center, dedicated to the performing arts, brings together a municipal theater and a movie theater complex. Designed as two separate parallelepipeds, the fifteen meters of space between them is covered by a metallic awning, serving not only to connect the two structures, but to create a monumental porch on axis with a grand view to the city. Between these two buildings, the pedestrian esplanade of Jacobins Square continues until ending in a large parvis. The parvis then itself culminates in a terrace overlooking Quinconces Square, which has been marked for redevelopment as a public garden.

Inside the building, two inner courtyards provide a light well eight meters deep. The multipurpose hall, the theater auditorium, and the musician's hall all gravitate around these two large spaces planted with large trees: oaks, hornbeams, birches. These forest varieties create a woodland atmosphere accentuated by the density of the planting, the delicacy of the outlines, the sharpness of the trunks, the reflections of the leaves, and the autumn colors.