First unveiled in 2008,
Herzog & de Meuron's Le Project Triangle has just received approval from the cross-party council of Paris for its construction. An incredible structure that will rise 200 meters from the Porte de Versailles in Paris, the stunning skyscraper will feature a profile so slim that it casts virtually no shadow and its orientation will be optimized to take advantage of both
solar and
wind power. Paris' new pyramid will be the first high-rise to be approved for construction is the city's center since 1977, thanks to the recent lifting of a 31-year-old ban established by the previous Mayor of paris, Jacques Chirac. If the ‘Triangle Tower’ is able to make it through all of the red-tape it will face over the coming years, it is estimated that the building will be completed by 2017.
“The Triangle is conceived as a piece of the city that could be pivoted and positioned vertically. It is carved by a network of vertical and horizontal traffic flows of variable capacities and speeds. Like the boulevards, streets and more intimate passages of a city, these traffic flows carve the construction into islets of varying shapes and sizes. This evocation of the urban fabric of Paris, at once classic and coherent in its entirety and varied and intriguing in its details, is encountered in the façade of the Triangle. Like that of a classical building, this one features two levels of interpretation: an easily recognizable overall form and a fine, crystalline silhouette of its façade which allows it to be perceived variously.”
We’re hoping that it will compete against the Generali Tower in La Defense for the best sustainably-designed high-rise in Paris. Via Dezeen
wow I’d feel naked in such a transparent building. and it looks like king solomon’s glass palace.
manifestación de brillante creatividad en una ciudad que parecía no tener posiblidades de propuestas en esta escala en su área histórica
Sad x 3. First, the skyscraper is a dead model, as the permanent energy crisis arrives. Second, completed buildngs never look as \’ethereal\’ as the slick renderings would suggest. Third, it\’s Paris. Why gunk-up the skyline?
by allowing skyscrapers to be built, land prices will rise, old low-rise buildings will be demolished to build new taller and more profitable buildings. Paris is one of the few ‘flat’ mega-cities that still exist on this planet, i hope it’ll stay like that. like the majority of the Parisians, i support the ban.
unless this skyscraper can be rotated, can anyone explain how does it cast virtually no shadow?
i am a big fan of H&DM but i can’t find any meaning in the architects’ comment included in this article.
Other than Paris, Mexico City is pretty flat. This building goes beyond what’s imagined possible and yes, it never looks the way it does in drawings and concept. I don’t think the skyscraper is dead, just wounded. Most buildings may never be more than ten or twenty stories; nothing wrong with that. My hometown of Baltimore has highrises, some of them very beautiful. We have a few disgraces like Legg Mason and the ones on Light Street, but we have a true beauty at just 27 stories. And theirs tons of stuff at less than 15 stories worthy of refurbishment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_05_07_-_Baltimore_-_Baltimore_St_approaching_N_Charles_St_3.JPG
Their will be future highrises in New York or Dubai or Chicago. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw……………parties. To ensure privacy, the windows will have to be glazed or tinted which will turn the building into a less transparent mirror finish. So your stuck with a reflective pyramid……..essentially like the Luxor in Vegas.