2024-11-23T20:07:43-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/131434851/parisian-exports-and-silicon-valley-imports-on-episode-37-of-archinect-sessions Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-07-09T19:17:00-04:00 >2019-03-28T15:01:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/o8/o8n9kirdey55x0as.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Our episode this week revolves around Paris &ndash; city of lights, riots, artists and cheese-shaped skyscrapers (or at least, those are the bits were talking about). As part of a nationwide strike against UberPop, the cheapest Uber-affiliate in France, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130426595/paris-erupts-in-riot-as-taxi-drivers-protest-uber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">taxi drivers in Paris launched a riotous protest</a>&nbsp;on June 25, terrorizing Uber drivers and generally disrupting Parisians in transit (and Courtney Love).</p> <p>Contention (albeit the nonviolent kind) also arose in response to <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130867323/paris-approves-its-first-skyscraper-of-the-21st-century" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Herzog &amp; de Meuron's new Tour Triangle skyscraper</a>, which Paris officials approved on June 30. It will be the city's first skyscraper since the much-maligned Tour Montparnasse was built in 1973, precipitating a height limit on new buildings (that has since been relaxed). Critics are unhappy about the Triangle's intrusion onto the Parisian skyline, and its inhospitable-looking atmosphere on the street level.</p> <p><img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/6p/6p3vnwmy11tkfbyw.jpg"></p> <p>Paul also shares his conversation with <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130249664/a-black-museum-for-the-white-city-of-the-north-moreau-kusunoki-architectes-selected-to-design-guggenheim-helsinki" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guggenheim Helsinki winners Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki</a>, following up on ...</p>