The Tour Triangle (; 'Triangle Tower'; also known as the Projet Triangle, or simply Triangle during the planning phase) is an under-construction skyscraper at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles in Paris's Rive Gauche, France. Designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, it takes the shape of a tall glass pyramid with trapezoid base, wide from one side and narrow from another.
Description
The Tour Triangle will be a triangle-shaped building that culminates at .Joseph Ayoub, Tour Triangle , Whitezine, 7 June 2012.
The Swiss architecture practice Herzog & de Meuron, which had previously designed the 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium in Beijing, was chosen to design the project.Triangle project , Herzogdemeuron.com
In April 2011, VIPARIS,Office Projects , Unibail-rodamco.com the project owner, was given the green light for Triangle.Unibail-Rodamco gets green light for Triangle in Paris , PropertyEU, 6 April 2011Bridgette Meinhold, Herzog & de Meuron's Towering Triangular Skyscraper Receives Green Light for Construction in Paris , Inhabitat, 4 September 2011. The tower site is located next to Porte de Versailles in the Parc des Expositions (southwest of Paris).
The plans for the construction of the tower were initially rejected by Paris councillors on 17 November 2014. A second ballot on the matter by the Paris Council on 30 June 2015 approved the building. Critics of the Tour Triangle had opposed the project because of its controversial height. The 42-story project is to be the first skyscraper to be built in low-rise Paris in approximately 40 years since the construction of Tour Montparnasse.
Architecture Being 42 floors high, it is designed to accommodate about 5,000 employees and host offices, street-level shops, panoramic observatories and a panoramic restaurant on the top floor.
Sustainability and environmental quality The Tour Triangle is to be a sustainable skyscraper: It was designed to achieve a high energy performance and reach the HQE and BREEAM certifications. It would favor natural light, and generate one-fourth the CO2 of a standard building of its size.Tour Triangle , Elioth
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External links Images of first Paris skyscraper leaked Paris Triangle: beyond the shadows of doubt