Tour Triangle

Warning: Please, notice that I consider France as my second country and I love it, so don't take the beginning of this post as an attack against France, I just criticise a common attitude in one part of the French population that, as someone that loves architecture, rather bothers me, and that for someone that has lived most of his life in a city (Xixón) where 15 stories buildings are just everywhere and people do not particularly complain about them, is pretty difficult to understand (notice that it goes far beyond the grand-ensemble trauma, and anyway, it's not HLM buildings that cause troubles, it's some of the people living there who do it.

The irrational hatred for High Rise Buildings could almost be considered as an essential part of the modern French identity. It's not that everyone hates them, indeed I guess part of the population does not care too much about them, but the percentage of people that vehemently hates any building higher than 50 meters and that is willing to create collectives, flood the media with lies about the "evils" of such buildings, go to court or whatever... in order to stop its construction is absolutely perplexing. Probably Marseille and Lyon are the 2 cities less affected by this redneck attitude, but unfortunately, Toulouse is right on the other side of the spectrum. This is the city where these collectives of "rednecks against the modern urban landscape" has an uncomprehensible power, furthermore, they even redefine the definition of high-rise, for these idiots which main interest in life is to hinder the development of the city, any building beyond 30 meters is a skyscrapper....

Things in Paris have been looking better in these last years. In 2018 Paris intra-muros saw the completion of the first sky-scrapper built in this century, the new TGI (notice of course that La Defense, that continues to thrive with interesting developments, is outside the limits of the "ville de Paris"), and the "Tours Duo" by Jean Nouvelle are well under construction (and there are plans for another skyscrapper in this same area). Furthermore, and this is what motivates this post, I've read recently that finally, the Tour Triangle has managed to overcome the last 2 (of many) appeals presented by some redneck association, and is now confirmed to become a new addition to the Parisian sky line. The images in in this article are just amazing, it looks massively beautiful!