The Tour Triangle Will Be A Tall, Misguided Mistake

Herzog & de Meuron offers no legible order, and no meaningful proportion to Paris, the city around Tour Triangle. Instead of having the building dialoguing with the urban fabric, it asserts itself as an isolated, branded object. The tower feels arbitrary and self‑indulgent, a misplaced monument to developer ambition.

The project, which had been rejected in 2014, is reaching its final height. In a country where many are against it, it still gets built. It will be the first skyscraper built in Paris since 1974, the first in 52 years, to the benefit of no one but a narrow circle of wallets, with the cost being the visual degradation of the city.