Triangle (Paris building)
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Triangle, also known as Projet Triangle, Ramses Delanoë or Delanoë Tower, is a proposed skyscraper
for Val de Seine
, Paris
, France
. Designed by the Swiss agency Herzog & de Meuron
, it will take the shape of a 180m tall glass pyramid with trapezoid
base, wide from one side and narrow from another.
When completed, it will be the first skyscraper built in the French capital since 1977. Paris mayor, Bertrand Delanoë
, was able to overturn the Parisian law that did not allow any building to be higher than 37 meters.
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
for Val de Seine
Val de Seine
The Val de Seine is one of the more important business districts of the Paris agglomeration. Located southwest of the city, it spreads along a bend of the Seine, mainly in the municipalities...
, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. Designed by the Swiss agency Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog , and Pierre de Meuron , closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of...
, it will take the shape of a 180m tall glass pyramid with trapezoid
Trapezoid
In Euclidean geometry, a convex quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides is referred to as a trapezoid in American English and as a trapezium in English outside North America. A trapezoid with vertices ABCD is denoted...
base, wide from one side and narrow from another.
When completed, it will be the first skyscraper built in the French capital since 1977. Paris mayor, Bertrand Delanoë
Bertrand Delanoë
Bertrand Delanoë is a French politician, and has been the mayor of Paris since 2001. He is member of the Socialist Party . Delanoë was born in Tunis, Tunisia to a French-Tunisian father and a French mother...
, was able to overturn the Parisian law that did not allow any building to be higher than 37 meters.