PARIS l La Defense-Tour Lumiere Cybernetique l 1,000 FT / 307 M l 1970 | NEVER BUILT
 

I think this is a beautiful/exciting tower.
The architect is Nicolas Schoffer

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Then in 1986 Schoffer adapted it for New York City.

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The only difference I see are the red white and blue searchlights (ick)



and again...after 9/11.
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Le Express, April 2002

I don't know many details.
If anyone has more information please post.

Wow, I don't get the point of this tower. Would it be just observation or what? And even though the tower is probably useless I still like it. I would've liked to see it get built but not in Paris or New York.

According to the article in French, the tower was a giant holder for thousands of mobile mirors that were supposed to concentrate and redirect light beams.
The tower could also accommodate 15000 visitors.

Fabb......Thanks for translating the article, :)
very interesting information.

The FAA or random dwellers in the city that it would have been built in wouldn't mind that or anything...:haha:

Does anyone know if anything has been built on the Tour San Fins site in La Defense? I hope that design gets revived eventually if the land is still available...

:yuck:

It's trash. Architect who wants to instigate public reaction.

I've never seen anything at all like this before.
unique in every way!!

I love it.

The site is not available anymore.
In its place, several low-rise office buildings have been built.
The chance that this design gets revived is close to zero.
OK, I'm done with the depressing news.

if the eiffel tower was a monument to cultural modernity, then this would have represented a decline into insanity.

It's kinetic sculpture to the extreme......I think it's great.

Maybe next with today's technology they can create one that projects holographic images over the city instead.