Good news! This was my 2nd preferred proposal for Tour Signal and certainly i would have liked if it have won instead of Nouvel's design, but hearing that Tour Signal AND Tours Hermitage will be built is even better!:banana: ...
I think that the design for this tower is well suited in La Defense, i like that it will be twin towers as well that they will be connected by 2 skybridges , though the facade could maybe have a different look, but it'll probably look different in reality than on the renders.
Another very good thing is that these towers will be used for mostlly residential purposes, which is quite uncommon in Europe until now, but this two towers could be just the beginning of a residential highrise booom in Paris and posiibly other European cities-i at least hope that it'll happen.
If all the currently proposed supertalls (Tour Phare , Tour Generali, Tour Signal and Tours Hermitage) as well as some of the other skyscrapers over 200 m like PB 22 ,Tour Air2 and The new Tour Gan will get built, Paris will have the best skyline in Western Europe by far, beating Frankfurt as well as London and will be no. 2 in Europe after Moscow. IMO Paris even could beat Moscow with maybe another 2 300+ m towers and one tower over 400m (Maybe the Tour sans fins will be re-considered to be built again in the future, who knows) and Paris would be numero uno in Europe as well as in the top 10 skylines worldwide.
But obviously thats not what's most important here, but more important is that this towers are re-making the skyline of Paris, because to face the truth, any major city needs a good skyline nowadays IMO.
P.S i read on Spiegel Online that the mayor of Paris is thinking about allowing highrises to be built in the historical center of Paris again (article in German:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,555874,00.html ) anybody knows something more about that?
anyway, said enough, here are some more renders of this win towers: