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Old Posted Jul 31, 2008, 11:13 PM
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The construction of the Levallois Perret twin towers began




http://editorial.batiactu.com/edito/...allois-686.php

With 164m high these building are the first 150m+ highrises under in construction outside la Defense since Montparnasse tower.
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Old Posted Jul 31, 2008, 11:15 PM
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A render by Cyril (It is not the real design of the tower that is actually unknow. It is just to give an idea of how could be the tower in this area)



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/...ca2313a5_o.jpg
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Old Posted Aug 1, 2008, 11:48 AM
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Paris to scrap ban on high-rise tower blocks
8 July 2008
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Paris city council on Tuesday moved to scrap a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, a decision that could revolutionise the capital's skyline but which is fiercely opposed by green politicians.
They claim to be green and oppose building tall? I'm tired of these fake-greens.

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On Tuesday, Paris city council voted to launch a public consultation on plans to build towers of up to 200 metres at six emblematic sites just inside the city walls
I like that idea. specific sites that will get concentrations of taller buildings, like mini-La Defense.

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The 37-metre ceiling was brought in 1977 to call a halt to a string of high-rise projects -- including the Montparnasse tower south of the River Seine -- that were quickly seen as failed experiments in urbanism.
Because it was the height that made them fail in urbanism? height has nothing to do with it.

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"This is not about undermining our heritage. But we have to stop thinking that Paris is a museum-city. Paris is not finished... If vertical buildings can enrich the heart of the capital, why deprive ourselves?"
Hear, hear!

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But others warn that a badly-designed tower can blow apart the social fabric of a neighbourhood.

"Tower blocks ruin the most precious asset of European cities: public spaces," said French architect Henri Gaudin. "They wipe out a whole territory."

Delanoe's plans are fiercely opposed by the French Green Party, who voted against on grounds of energy efficiency.

"Tower blocks are urbanism's equivalent of the four-wheel drive car: flashy machines that devour energy," Green Party councillor Rene Dutrey charged.
Who said anything about 60s style highrise commieblocks and Le Corbousier style urban planning? These guys are totally missing the point!
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Old Posted Aug 1, 2008, 4:53 PM
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Yeh, these fake Green are a problem in Paris, with them the traffic decrease but the traffic jam increase.
They are for the public housing but not inside the bourgeois district so they prefer ghetto as social diversity.... They dream of the Paris of Amelie Poulin
Outside Paris green are not against high-rises.
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Issy's project-Mozart tower










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Old Posted Sep 8, 2008, 11:29 AM
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Recladd of Tour Altais-Montreuil (88m) in Montreuil (eastern inner suburbs)




picture by Sinha

http://www.philia.fr/index_altais.php
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Old Posted Sep 25, 2008, 11:47 AM
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Finally the 180m tower in Porte de Versailles by Herzog and Meuron.


















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Paris 15-Porte de Versailles-Herzog & De Meuron:



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Wow! They really went for something different on this one. Can't decide if I like it though. Looks quite massive.
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that's an instant icon methinks
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A render by Cyril (It is not the real design of the tower that is actually unknow. It is just to give an idea of how could be the tower in this area)


Well, I think Cyril's render looks better - more elegant and more “neighbourhood-friendly” - than the actual project which seems a bit narcisistic (true: in a narcissitic city ).
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H & D are so out there...love it!
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Herzog and de Meuron Pyramid

Additional renderings of the Herzog and de Meuron glass pyramid. The architects claim the building will cast no shadows! More information here:

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The architects claim the building will cast no shadows!
And my poo smells like roses! Seriously, if anyone believes this claim, they deserve to live forever in the dark shadows of this building, doomed to complain until the bitter end about height, density, shadows and quality of life.

The rest of us can sit on on a cafe, sipping our lattes, wondering aloud in the world's most beautiful language why anyone in their right mind would build a deconstructionist version of the Ryugyong Hotel in the heart of Paris. Then we'd be distracted by the beautiful people walking by on the sidewalk, forgetting momentarily that we are skyscraper nerds.
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Old Posted Dec 1, 2008, 10:34 PM
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Four towers proposed in Massena (13th arrondissement)

The vision to build high-rises in Massena is not but as we learnt few month ago, this area is one where high rises could be build inside inner Paris.
Massena is a big railward vasleland inside the big Paris rive gauche redevellopment area next to the Peripherique in southeastern inner Paris. With Bercy and the redevelopment of the dockland in Ivry, this is maybe the birth of the big eastern business district that Paris lack.



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A bit too much cliche for the big multicultural metropolis that is Paris.
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Four towers proposed in Massena district (13th arrondissement)

The vision to build high-rises in Massena is not but as we learnt few month ago, this area is one where high rises could be build inside inner Paris.
Massena is a big railward vasleland inside the big Paris rive gauche redevellopment area next to the Peripherique in southeastern inner Paris. With Bercy and the redevelopment of the dockland in Ivry, this is maybe the birth of the big eastern business district that Paris lack.



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A bit too much cliche for the big multicultural metropolis that is Paris.
Yes, but that cliche is what brings me back to Paris again and again.

If I wanted skyscrapers and graffiti and ethnic food, I'd stay in New York.
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Is that next to the Biblioteque Nationale?
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