2023-11-19 13:00:00
NARRATIVE – Pointed out by the Greens for their environmental footprint, high-rise buildings tend to be banned from urban planning projects. A shame, when we must limit urban sprawl.
Its definitive silhouette finally emerges in the “skyline» Lyonnaise, dreamed of in a New York imagination by former mayor Gérard Collomb. A dark glass monolith 171 meters high, To-Lyon surveys the forecourt of Part-Dieu station, which is currently being redeveloped. A tower with a particular flavor, as its construction nears completion at the end of autumn 2023: it will be the last in the capital of Gaul. The city and the metropolis, now controlled by environmentalists, no longer want it. For the “greens”, these buildings, modern symbols of the urban landscape, would be ecological heresy.
Coming to power in 2020, the new majority reviewed the entire redevelopment project for the Lyon business district, to erase the drawings of towers worn by Gérard Collomb. Paris has taken the same path: after criticized programs like the Duo towers, recently inaugurated in the 13th arrondissement, or the Triangle tower, under construction in the 15th, elected environmentalists, allies…
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