Tour Triangle

Tour Triangle, also known as Projet Triangle, or simply Triangle, is a skyscraper to be built in the exhibition site Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles in Paris, France. Designed by the Swiss agency Herzog & de Meuron, it will take the shape of a 180 metres (590 ft) tall glass pyramid with trapezoid base, wide from one side and narrow from another. It will be the first tall building built in central Paris since the 1973 Tour Montparnasse.[1]

Tour Triangle
Location within Paris
General information
StatusApproved
Typemixed
Address1 place de la Porte de Versailles - 75015 Paris
Coordinates48.8314°N 2.2858°E / 48.8314; 2.2858
OwnerVIPARIS
Height
Antenna spire~180 m (590 ft)
Technical details
Floor count42
Design and construction
ArchitectHerzog & de Meuron

Description

Tour Triangle will be a triangle-shaped building that culminates at 180 metres.[2]

The Swiss architectural agency Herzog & De Meuron, which had previously designed the 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium in Beijing, was chosen to design the project.[3]

In April 2011, VIPARIS,[4] the project owner, was given the green light for Triangle.[5][6] 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 City councillors on November 17, 2014. A second ballot on the matter by the Paris City Council on June 30, 2015 approved the building.[7] 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-lying Paris in approximately 40 years since the construction of the Tour Montparnasse, the scale of the latter which still provokes animosity amongst Parisians.[8]

Architecture

Being 42 floors high, it would accommodate about 5,000 employees and host offices, street-level shops, panoramic observatories and a panoramic restaurant on the top floor.[2]

Sustainability and environmental quality

Tour Triangle was 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.[9]

References
  1. , Paris row after Triangle skyscraper rejected, 17 November 2014
  2. Joseph Ayoub, Tour Triangle, Whitezine, 7 June 2012
  3. Triangle project, Herzogdemeuron.com
  4. Office Projects, Unibail-rodamco.com
  5. Unibail-Rodamco gets green light for Triangle in Paris, PropertyEU, 6 April 2011
  6. Bridgette Meinhold, Herzog & de Meuron's Towering Triangular Skyscraper Receives Green Light for Construction in Paris, Inhabitat, 4 September 2011
  7. "Paris gives go-ahead for massive 'Tour Triangle' skyscraper".
  8. "Paris approves controversial Tour Triangle skyscraper for construction".
  9. Tour Triangle Archived 2017-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Elioth
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