Paris may get first skyscraper in 40 years
Residents torn between disfiguring 19th-century skyline and new office space that may rejuvenate neighbourhood
Paris
THE last skyscraper built in Paris opened in 1973, an unadorned dark block, rising 59 stories - the Montparnasse Tower. It was considered a disaster. To this day, Parisians joke that the tower offers the best views in the city, because it is the only place from which you cannot see it. City officials went to work banning future skyscrapers altogether.
Now, however, four decades later, Paris is again considering a new skyscraper - a triangular, 42-storey glass office tower designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron that would stand in the city's south-west corner.
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