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Eiffel Tower gets skyscraper rival
The Press Association ^
| 5/27/08
| The Press Assn
Posted on 06/10/2008 9:10:26 PM PDT by Sax
A towering 71-storey skyscraper to rival the Eiffel Tower is to be built on the edge of Paris.
The Signal Tower is expected to be completed in 2015 and will be 987.5 feet tall and stand in the La Defense business district.
The rectangular tower will be divided into four levels to house shops, a luxury hotel, offices and apartments on the top - crowned with green from the atrium.
The building, designed by award-winning French architect Jean Nouvel, will be 75 feet shorter than the Eiffel Tower, making it the second-tallest building in the Paris metropolitan area.
It is part of a broader project to renew the business district.
The Signal Tower will be built near the business district's reigning landmark, the Grande Arche, which is lined up with the Arc de Triomphe at the top of Champs-Elysees Avenue and the obelisk at Place de la Concorde.
Nouvel, 62, won the 2008 Pritzker prize, considered the world's top architecture award.
His design beat proposals by four other architects, Britain's Norman Foster, American Daniel Libeskind and two other Frenchmen, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Jacques Ferrier.
His previous works include the Institute of the Arab World in Paris, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and Paris' Quai Branly museum for the primitive arts.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: eiffeltower
Tower envy.
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:10:27 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
But will someone marry it?
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:22:27 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I heard something about that, but I’m not allowed to talk about it.
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:33:41 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:46:35 PM PDT
by
neb52
To: Sax
>
I heard something about that, but I’m not allowed to talk about it. Oh, you can -talk- about it, but post a picture of it, and you'll get your, ummm, thread pulled.
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:47:32 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Sax; neb52; AndrewB
>
Any pictures, sketches? Don't you dare! You and AndrewB are in enough trouble already, LOL.
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:49:01 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: neb52
The Paulistian Monument:
Or one to woo a bride:
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posted on
06/10/2008 9:58:14 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: dayglored
Yeah, I was posting a response to AndrewB when I got the bad news...
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:03:07 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Army Air Corps
eiffel tower will try to set it up with another crazy broad from SF. misery loves company
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:06:43 PM PDT
by
Disciplinemisanthropy
(...and that, people, is what grinds my gears.)
To: Disciplinemisanthropy
A truly monumental blind date.
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:08:05 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Sax
>
Yeah, I was posting a response to AndrewB when I got the bad news... Ya gotta admit, it was getting a little raunchy...
OTOH, -this- thread is a veritable paragon of virtue...
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:18:14 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Army Air Corps
Note to self. The Chinese Olympic Stadium is off limits. Don't think about it. Don't post it. Don't think about posting it.
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:19:11 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
Note to self. The Chinese Olympic Stadium is off limits. Don't think about it. Don't post it. Don't think about posting it.
Not gonna touch it with a ten foot pole...
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:20:49 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Sax
Honestly, who the hell designed that? An afficionado of Georgia O’Keeffe?
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:22:59 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Dude, that one about pushed this thread over the razor thin limit! :)
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posted on
06/10/2008 10:24:09 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Army Air Corps
actually she knows an ex, a fencepost, and its pretty open minded.
To: Sax
Is there some kind of law that prohibits buildings taller than the Eiffel Tower?
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posted on
06/10/2008 11:44:39 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: AlaskaErik
Not that I know of. I think it’s more of a 220 year old alpha male respect thing.
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posted on
06/10/2008 11:47:02 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
Their new stadium looks somewhat vaguely
like this one going up in Arlington, Texas:
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:00:17 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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