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 Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. Designed by the Swiss agency

Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
" Herzog & de Meuron. Retrieved on 11 October 2012. "Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd. R ...

, it will take the shape of a tall glass pyramid with

trapezoid A quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides is called a trapezoid () in American and Canadian English. In British and other forms of English, it is called a trapezium (). A trapezoid is necessarily a convex quadrilateral in Eu ...

base, wide from one side and narrow from another. It will be the first tall building built in the city of Paris since the 1973

Tour Montparnasse Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a office skyscraper located in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until ...

. In 2021, the construction contract was awarded to

BESIX Group BESIX Group is a construction group based in Brussels, one of the world's leading international contractors according to the ENR ranking. Active since 1909, BESIX operates in Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, Africa, North America and Asia. Its ...

Description

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. In April 2011, VIPARIS, the project owner, was given the green light for Triangle. 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 17 November 2014. A second ballot on the matter by the Paris City 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 the

, the scale of the latter which still provokes animosity amongst Parisians.

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.

Sustainability and environmental quality

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''

References

External links

Paris Triangle: beyond the shadows of doubt
{{DEFAULTSORT:Triangle (Paris Building) Buildings and structures under construction in France Skyscrapers in Paris Pyramids in France Herzog & de Meuron buildings Buildings and structures in the 15th arrondissement of Paris Skyscraper office buildings in France