Herzog de Meuron’s Triangle Tower Design Raises Eyebrows in Paris
The 590ft (180m) proposed 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. Opposing the recent approval, Green party members are eager to share their thoughts commenting that the “colossal” project is “yet another office block” according to party member Yves Contassot.
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.
To most Parisians the Montparnasse’s over exaggerated proportions and lack of character have left an uneasy feeling for future skyscraper development. Many citizens are not opposed to high-rise development, such as Olivier de Rohan Chabot member of Safeguard of French Art, however he has concerns, “Look at the Montparnasse Tower; it has crushed the hotel des Invalides (housing Napoleon’s tomb). The monument was built to be grandiose. But what has it become? A dwarf. The tower ridicules it. In this sense, it’s a veritable attack on the beauty of the capital” (as stated Le Figaro newspaper).
More following the break.
© Herzog de Meuron
To put the project a bit more into context, the location for ‘Triangle Tower’ is near the Porte de Versailles which is home to an expansive exhibition centre. The Eiffel Tower at 1,072ft still will dominate the Paris skyline and has 482ft on the proposed Herzog de Meuron’s ‘Triangle Tower’. Also to take into consideration are the buildings currently under construction in the business district of La Défense, west of the capital, some of Europe’s highest skyscrapers (Lighthouse, Signal and Hermitage Plaza towers).
Architects Herzog de Meuron were commissioned for the project which plans on utilizing both wind and solar power to generate energy. Its shape would “limit the shadow on neighbours” stated Jacques Herzog co-architect, continuing, “one mustn’t think of it as a tower. It’s more like a topography a vertical city.”
The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, is strongly backing the project which is in his opinion “emblematic of Paris’ aura and dynamism”. Anticipated to create 5,000 jobs according to local officials, the mixed-use ‘Triangle Tower’ will combine street level shopping with offices, a conference hall, and panoramic restaurant above.
If the ‘Triangle Tower’ is able to make it through all of the red-tape it will face it will require an estimated 535m euros and will have a tentative completion date of 2017.
Source: The Telegraph
Another triangle from Herzog & de Meuron?? De Young, Tate Modern Extension and now Triangle Tower.
Aside from the seeming lack of inventiveness in a particular part of Basel just now, whether or not there is 482 feet in it, another ‘triangluar’ form on the Paris skyline will surely compete to the point of detraction with the Eiffel Tower.
This is not the kind of skyscraper that ruins a skyline. It will be a new orientation point like the eiffeltower, la defense or le sacre coeur already is for paris without harming the unique parisian architectural identity.
I actually see this as a 21st century eiffel tower
every high tower will be more or less triangular…
for my more interesting to see inner structure of this building…
Looks pretty elegant! But I’m not sure it would look as white and crystalline in reality, often glass buildings tend to look rather dark unless they have some special glazing.
“Every high tower will be more or less triangular.”
There is a substantial difference between a tower which tapers and continually repeating pymramid forms.
It looks like at some point in his career every architect does a triangular tower, and every city has or will have one. I like the works of Herzog and de Meuron.
I don’t know how this will influence on the eiffel tower’s exclusive silhouette, but yeah, it really looks like a 21st century Eiffel.
very typical of Herzog
“typical of Herzog” means that Herzog made now always the sames things
They starting to be very boring with rotating torso pyramid buildings…
if you would look at it you would see that it’s neitnher a torso nor rotating
very untypical of Paris
“typical of Herzog” means that Herzog made now always the sames things
It looks horrid, bland and careless. It would actually have the power to make Paris less special.
I’m having a hard time believing the same architects of Tate Modern came up with that.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50814F9345513738DDDAA0894DB405B8784F0D3
ugh, another bland and disgusting office block. It makes me want to retch. It will be hated. It does nothing to enhance the city and it will destroy it’s character and skyline. What a far cry from the usually opulent architecture of Paris.
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