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Herzog & de Meuron pyramid to pierce Paris skyline
26 September, 2008
Architect's 180m-tall Projet Triangle to be city's first new high-rise after council lifts tower ban
Paris council has unveiled plans for a 50-storey glass pyramid after voting to drop a ban on high-rise buildings.
Proposals for the Projet Triangle, designed by Swiss architecture practice Herzog & de Meuron, include offices, a conference centre and a 400-bed hotel as well as restaurants, cafes and gardens.
The scheme, at Porte de Versailles in the south of the French capital, would be 180m tall, making it the third tallest building in Paris after the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower.
The project is the first of six high-rise schemes planned for the city following an official decision in July to break the ban on buildings higher than 37m.
Readers' comments
While all concepts are unique in their own nature, each is alien to Paris, in terms of scale, geometry, massing, materials and context. They all look like Disney concepts for a digital cartoon or more appropriately they could be for any other city than Paris. The PYRAMID, well I think Las Vegas is the most deserving of this building. Thank you for the very heartly laughs that I had after lunch and at the end of the week. One last thing Daniel Libskind's jagged design would be more appropriate in a mineral rich region of anyplace in the world, other than Paris. Maybe he should try to sell it to Denver, if he looses the competition, then they'd have vertical and horizontal geodes on display. Again, thanks for the laughs, for I needed them after the failed banking system news in the U.S. this week a hectic week of travel not to mention recovering from Hurricane Ike.
This is really grotesque and awful. I expected more, much more, from H & D. This reminds me in quite a literal way of 'the worst building in the world', the as-yet unfinished Ryugyong Hotel, aka the 'Hotel of Doom' in North Korea. Why on earth would anybody want to usurp Paris' lovely iconic structures with this monumental piece of crap? Boo, H & D. Paris, are you listening??? Have some dignity! Do not go through with this!
This is not the centre of Paris. Behind the iconic shock of the triangle, this is a sublime proposal for the periphery of Paris. It is not whether the architecture will change for Paris, it is about changing Paris to receive this jewel. Truly beautiful.
awful design, what up with the pyramid designs all over paris, they already have one at the louvre and now another one. they are going to transform paris into egypt.