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Tuesday 5 April 2011

Herzog de Meuron

Herzog de Meuron
Triangle Tower

Herzog de Meuron design labeled ‘Triangle Tower’, has been in the spotlight over recent weeks after the cross-party council approved the tower’s protocol agreement. The controversy over the 40-story steel and glass building surely was anticipated; the French capital has had a 30+ year drought of buildings over 121ft.

In 1977 a ban was put into place, shortly after the completion of the 689ft Tour Montparnasse, because Parisians feared that the city center would lose its existing urban fabric to skyscrapers similar to the Montparnasse. Read more on Architcture Daily

Herzog de Meuron's Triangle Tower Design Raises Eyebrows in Paris © Herzog de Meuron

Herzog de Meuron's Triangle Tower Design Raises Eyebrows in Paris © Herzog de Meuron







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