由瑞士建築師 Herzog & de Meuron 設計之玻璃金字塔「Le Projet Triangle」，總計50層樓、高度 180 米， 基地位於巴黎西南部的凡爾賽門旁邊。
經過幾個月的政治角力，媒體已贈與該摩天大樓「德拉諾埃塔(Delanoe Tower)」封號，它是巴黎市長德拉諾埃(Bertrand Delanoe)推動的六座新摩天大樓中的第一座，預計2012年完工。
1977年，當時擔任巴黎市長的席哈克（Jacques Chirac）頒布了一道高度限制禁令，巴黎市中心的大樓不得高於37米。
↗ Jacques Herzog 簡報其在巴黎新作品「Le Projet Triangle」
巴黎市長 Bertrand Delanoe 則做了大膽決定，他於今年7月說服巴黎市議會，放寬 6個市中心區域允許建造高樓，改變巴黎的天際線地貌。根據法國媒體報導，2009年起法國住宅商辦的建築限高都放寬，不過目前計畫建造的六座高樓都位於環城四周，而且通通限制在巴黎艾菲爾鐵塔81層樓的 2/3高度以下。
直到現在，巴黎仍是世界上少數幾個堅持建築限高的都市，嚴格的高度限制設定長期保護了城市的景觀，也把高樓大廈趕到市郊去。推行類似政策的還有華盛頓以及羅馬。
對許多巴黎人來說，建築限高是個很好的政策。1972年建造的230米高樓 Montparnasse Tower 讓巴黎人大搖其頭，後來也被巴黎市長 Delanoe 及總統 Nicolas Sarkozy 點名批判，視其為高又醜的建築，破壞巴黎左岸的街景。
今年7月，市議會投票表決前，巴黎市長 Delanoe 表示，不該讓 Montparnasse Tower (附註)斷了巴黎以建築引領其他城市的威名，他誓言：「絕不重蹈歷史錯誤」。
這項改變也正符合了法國總統 Nicolas Sarkozy 的計畫─復興巴黎La Defense金融中心，讓更多摩天大樓進駐巴黎西面郊區。正中的建築於2007年春天發表，將由知名法國建築師 Jean Nouvel 設計的71樓高塔「Signal Tower(中譯：訊號塔)」。
巴黎市議會投票決定解除首都禁高令，主要是應對城市住房短缺和振興城市的經濟地位。第一個通過的高層設計是 Herzog & de Meuron 設計的「Le Projet Triangle」。
設計採用了金字塔式結構，總高度達180米，基地長度約200米，建築師 Herzog & de Meuron 希望此設計案能夠成為「巴黎經濟活力的象徵」。三角形將成為巴黎市中心繼埃菲爾鐵塔和蒙帕那斯大樓之後的第三高建築。
「Le Projet Triangle」將於2012年完成，包括辦公空間、一座「世界語言博物館」、會議中心和一個可容納400個房間的豪華飯店、餐廳、咖啡廳、花園等相關設施。
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Herzog & de Meuron pyramid to pierce Paris skyline
26 September, 2008
By Olivia Boyd
Architect's 180m-tall Projet Triangle to be city's first new high-rise after council lifts tower ban
Paris council has unveiled plans for a 50-storey glass pyramid after voting to drop a ban on high-rise buildings.
Proposals for the Projet Triangle, designed by Swiss architecture practice Herzog & de Meuron, include offices, a conference centre and a 400-bed hotel as well as restaurants, cafes and gardens.
The scheme, at Porte de Versailles in the south of the French capital, would be 180m tall, making it the third tallest building in Paris after the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower.
The project is the first of six high-rise schemes planned for the city following an official decision in July to break the ban on buildings higher than 37m.
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The Herzog and de Meuron Triangle
Published on 25-09-2008
by Skyscrapernews.com
Images of the 180 metre tall Unibail Tower at the Porte de Versailles in the City of Paris proper have been released and are sure to kick up a storm of controversy over the project.
It's been designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Unibail Rodamco who have dreamed up what is effectively the shape of an equilateral triangle.
Narrowing gently on its horizontal axis as it reaches the top of the building, the façade also busily ripples in and out avoid a pure sense of geometry and adding a touch of the organic to it.
It is similar in a sense to the famous Marina Baie des Anges Residence of Villeneuve-Loubet on the French Riveria, a series of pyramidal apartment blocks although these plans are likely to have a more crystalline and less concrete feel to them.
With a base of almost 200 metres in length, the buildings long footprint will be exploited by with a range of retail outlets set to litter it and animate the ground level turning it into a bustling landmark.
Right now the scheme is more a concept than a firm proposal and is likely to change radically, not least because the developer is unsure whether it will even have a hotel option included or be entirely offices. If the office option is eventually plumped for, it will accommodate up to 5,000 workers.
There hasn't been a single skyscraper built there since Tour Montparnasse went up in the 1970s although this project will be located on the extreme south-western part of the city near the main ring-road that encircles it marking it out as a truly suburban project.
Despite this distance the project will no doubt struggle. The Parisian authorities are unlikely to approve of anything that will individually challenge the dominance of the Eiffel Tower on the Paris skyline as this tower well could, something considered a sacred cow in the French capital. It's a mistake made with Tour Montparnasse that's unlikely to be made again.
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Images of first Paris skyscraper leaked
Plans showing a pyramid-like tower rising 180 metres above Paris - the first skyscraper to be built inside the French capital in 30 years - have been leaked to the press ahead of Thursday's official unveiling.
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last Updated: 5:51PM BST 24 Sep 2008
The 50-storey building has already been dubbed the "Delanoë tower" after Paris' Socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, who has battled to bring towers to the low-rise city.
Conceived by the Swiss agency Herzog & de Meuron - who designed the Tate Modern and the "Bird's Nest" stadium for the Beijing Olympics - the edifice is described as "a sort of Kheops' pyramid squashed and morphed by computer tools, with a very narrow-width base and very stretched out lengthwise."
The privately-financed building is expected to contain offices looking outward and a luxury hotel looking towards the city centre. There are also plans for luxury boutiques, a panoramic restaurant, a swimming pool, hanging gardens and a Babel-like "museum of languages of the world".
Scheduled for completion by 2012, it will overlook Paris from its southwestern extremity at the porte de Versailles, already home to a vast exhibition centre. It is the first of six gratte-ciels (high-rise) projects to be launched by Mr Delanoë. These are all in "exceptional" designated zones on the outer limits of the city, with some to include subsidised housing to ease the capital's housing crisis.
In July, the mayor won backing from Paris' city council to make exceptions to a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, currently limited to 37 metres.
The height restriction was introduced in 1977 after Parisians feared a repeat of the ugly 210-metre Montparnasse tower south of the River Seine.
The running joke in France, where Belgians are often mocked, is: "What do you call a Belgian who blows up the Tour Montparnasse? A national hero."
Parisians also shudder to remember feted architect Le Corbusier's notorious Plan Voisin for Paris in 1925, which would have seen much of the right bank of the Seine flattened and replaced with a series of high-rise tower blocks.
While many architects have expressed enthusiasm for the relaxing of building restrictions, two thirds of Parisians oppose taller buildings in the capital, arguing that it will destroy the 19th century skyline, which largely remains intact.
The French Green Party voted against skyscrapers on grounds of energy efficiency.
"Tower blocks are the town planning equivalent of the SUV: flashy machines that devour energy," one Green Party councillor said in July.
But the mayor insists they will be environmentally friendly.
His deputy, Anne Hidalgo, told nouvelobs.com, the website that leaked the plans, that the pyramid was not a final draft but a "proposal" that would be "reworked" to improve its ecological credentials.
While the pyramid is breaking new ground in Paris, a string of far higher towers are already scheduled to spring up in the La Defense business district just outside the capital. There are currently 12 projects under way, including the Tour Generali, Le Phare (the lighthouse) and the Tour Signal - all over 300 metres high.
However, these could be under threat due to fallout from the global financial crisis.
The real estate arm of American investment bank Lehman Brothers, which just went bankrupt, owns Coeur Defense - Europe's largest office complex at the heart of La Defense. According to Le Monde, it will be obliged to sell the property at a loss, likely triggering a real estate and rental slump that could postpone several tower projects and even threaten their viability.