Paris city council fights over new skyscraper
PARIS — The Paris City Council has rejected plans for a new skyscraper on the city’s 19th-century skyline — but the mayor immediately rejected the vote as invalid.
This computer image provided Monday, Nov 17, 2014 by architects Herzog & de Meuron shows the proposed Triangle tower project in Paris. Photo: AP
PARIS — The Paris City Council has rejected plans for a new skyscraper on the city’s 19th-century skyline — but the mayor immediately rejected the vote as invalid.
The exceptionally bitter vote today (Nov 17) embodies a larger debate over whether Paris should be a museum city or should be more open to modern architecture.
The council voted 83-78 in a secret ballot against the Tour Triangle, which would be the third-highest tower of Paris after the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse tower, often decried as a modern blight on the city’s low-slung horizon.
Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo is in favour. Some conservative council members disclosed how they voted, which Ms Hidalgo said violated the rules of a secret ballot. She declared its results invalid, apparently hoping for a new vote. AP
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