Paris will have a new landmark, a pyramid 180 meters tall

Paris - Paris will have a new landmark. The Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower will be complemented by a third giant, a skyscraper 180 meters tall, which is to be pyramid-shaped and will therefore be named Tour Triangle (Triangle Tower). After nearly two years of struggle, the Paris City Hall today approved the project with the also consent of all the city districts.
    This is, among other things, a victory for Paris's socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, who had to face a humiliating defeat on this issue at the Paris City Council last December. Only after some revision of the project and persuading key opposition councilors from the right did the plan finally get the green light.
    At the same time, this represents a defeat for opponents of high-rise buildings in Paris and environmental activists, who last had to capitulate more than 40 years ago, when the 210-meter high Montparnasse Tower was built.
    The new skyscraper is expected to be built in the southwest of Paris near the highway exit Porte de Versailles in 2020. The investment will amount to half a billion euros (more than 13.5 billion crowns) and is expected to create 5,000 new jobs.
    Otherwise, Paris has very few high-rise buildings. The only cluster is located in the Beaugrenelle district near the Eiffel Tower. This approximately 30-year-old cluster of towers is not considered particularly successful and was expensively renovated about a decade ago.
    In the Défense district, which is already a suburb of Paris, the tallest building since 2011 is the 231-meter office building Tour First.

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