Back in November 2006, Morphosis was selected to design the Phare Tower in Paris, France. The tower now still in schematic design phase and the construction scheduled to be completed in 2012. The tower is believed to become the keystone of redevelopment for La Defense business district.
The owner of the project is Unibail and Guillaume Poitrinal, Chairman and CEO of Unibail, said: “For this highly symbolic project, we were determined to give an example of groundbreaking architecture and a model of sustainable development by utilizing cutting-edge research in the new technologies.â€
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