Newly Freed from Height Limits, Paris Skyline Ready to Rise
Photo: CFuga under a Creative Commons license . One of the striking things about Paris is that, for a major city whose metropolitan area includes nearly 12 million people, there are very few buildings more than five or six stories tall. Since 1977, soon after the construction of the 689 foot tall Tour Montparnasse, a building that sticks out like a sore thumb and is widely disliked by Parisians, there has been a height limit of 121 feet on all new buildings. (The Eiffel Tower, at 1,063 feet, is by far the tallest structure … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Newly Freed from Height Limits, Paris Skyline Ready to Rise
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