London has its 'Gherkin'...
🔴But Parisians are turning up their noses at skyscraping 'Brie'
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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴But Parisians are turning up their noses at skyscraping 'Brie'
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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🧀Outraged Parisians have launched a last-ditch attempt to halt the construction of a €700-million skyscraper that has been likened to a "giant piece of brie"
🏙️Architectural purists say the "Triangle Tour" - set to be built this year within the peripherique, or boundary of central Paris - will destroy the city’s skyline
Plans for the tower, which has been compared to Shard in London, were approved more than a decade ago.
❌Construction has been repeatedly delayed amid complaints
❌Construction has been repeatedly delayed amid complaints
🗣️"It’s like a big piece of brie in the sky that can be seen from everywhere … and that’s a problem," said Didier Rykner, an art historian and founder of the magazine Tribune de l’Art.
"I prefer the real cheese"
"I prefer the real cheese"
Télérama, the French news magazine, panned the project as "an outdated, ecologically absurd project being built out of place"
The project's backers assert it will "be an asset for the economic development and influence of the capital" by generating "more than 5,000 jobs during its construction"
🇫🇷The triangular high-rise is set to be the city's largest skyscraper since the Montparnasse tower was built in 1973
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