They should build Libeskind, wilmotte or Foster's projects before they even think of building these two, I can't believe they are going with the worst ones. IMO anyway. Ferrier's proposal for the Tour Phare competition was much better than this, and I thought they would have used that for the Tour Signal competition too. Nouvel's was just a re-hash of his Phare project, why couldn't Ferrier do the same?
It is not the best supertall ever , but it's better than this shit of Tour Signal by Nouvel imo .
So in Paris ~2014 , we should have
Tour Phare ~300m
Tour Generali ~300m
Tour Signal - 301m (Or very hypothetic 370m with screen)
Tours Hermitage - 309m
It's a great building, no doubt about that. But the location is so wrong !!! It will hide all the north part of LD when looking from the Arc de Triomphe, including Phare, Total, Generali, Gan & Axa.
this is just my opinion of course but for such a historically beautiful city known for it's style I am surprised at the choices made in skyscrapers.They're not all bad,just very different(maybe that's what they're aiming for) and some a little ungainly
^^I know how Paris is planned,it's just that even on the outskirts of the city where the towers are,they're,well,just not in the same tradition of taste-whatever that would beanyway just an opinion
They might be weird bt they are certainly better than the 80s blocks in a city that is considered one of the cultural capitals of the world lol. Go Paris!
I didn't like the design in the beginning when I first saw it for the Tour Signal project. But I actually got used to it, although I still think the top part looks somehow strange - and I know how I would change it, but I can't explain it.
Anyway, I think it would be nice if these towers get built.
I LOVE it. I'm all about asymmetry and bridging two towers. So, my question is...has this already been thrown out for Tour Signal or is it still a candidate? I hope it would not depart much from the rendering unless it's for the best.
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