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La Defense gets the Signal
French star architect Jean Nouvel was chosen Tuesday over four world-class peers to build a landmark skyscraper called, The Signal Tower, on the edge of Paris, set to rival the Eiffel Tower for domination of the city skyline. Bustler | AFP
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Another phalic structure steeped in occult symbology.
You've got the massive Nouvel tower, the penis, standing pround along side that strange square building with the void in the centre, the vagina.
Ah, the never get tired of amusing themselves...
Does anyone know the name of that square building with the void and the designer??
the penis is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? some people seem to see penises everywhere..
le Grande Arche de la Fraternité was designed by Johann Otto von Spreckelsen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche
.. and Nouvel did far better in Manhattan me thinks.
Well they often say, bigger is better.
Nouvel had a previously designed a dissolving tower on a site similar to this
A dissolving tower??
Good to see he had manage to keep it up with this attempt, ah the wonders of viagra.
zoolander, I think you are confusing "Le Phare" tower by Morphosis with that of jean Nouvels. This article only shows a rendering of the Morphosis projecet and an image of Nouvels model.
Also, I thought that the coment by Devedjian saying Nouvel's tower would be "the defining building in the Greater Paris that is currently taking shape," is completely bias.
Of the four Nouvel buildings I've been to and the three Morphosis projects, I would guess that the Morphosis project is going to be "the defining building" for some time. I don't know, call me bias as well...
has some sweet renderings of Nouvel's Signal Tower.
All that for almost 1billion dollars, ONE BILLION DOLLARS MMMM which reminds me again of this switched@birth thread/dr.evil if you come to think of it it's not that far off.
+,- compare two towers?
a little visual background in the area via skyscraper site. 1 | 2 | 3
I vote for Morphosis
Wait... I must have missed something. There is something else out there other than penises and vagina's? Nests and guns? Guys and dolls?
I vote for Morphosis too. Besides I heard they weren't going to build Nouvel's tower just pay him to render it over and over for eternity.
Fractals?! Awesome!
let's be phare...
Well , you know they say bigger is better cause we're having a real architectural discussion or something!!! Are you people for real? Why even comment?
lets be phare, these comments are terrible.
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