Tour Montparnasse, Paris - was an attempt to modernize Paris Capped

What merit can build a building 210 meters high office to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world?

La Tour Montparnasse in the south-west of the city near the famous cemetery of Montparnasse, and offers a splendid view of Paris from the 56th floor restaurant. From this tower, the tallest in France, which may be taken at a distance of 25 miles, or take a helicopter to see, perhaps for an airport on the outskirts of the city.

BreathtakingAerial photographs are at a premium in Paris. Today, the restrictions limit the height of buildings in Paris to seven floors. But in the past, a desire to reach for the sky, was in the thirteenth century, Notre Dame have been fulfilled, and in the nineteenth century Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur on Montmartre hill.

Montparnasse Tower was built forty years ago between 1969 and 1972. Building in simple terms means that those working in the office and be accepted. But it is clear that Parishas a tendency to compete with New York or London as a target for businesses built vertically inclined or employees. Two years after its completion, the construction of skyscrapers in the city was banned.

Why? The monolithic appearance and maximum proportions of the tower is a clumsy attempt at a modern international stage Paris Square. But perhaps the structure of feeling out of place with the sophistication and elegance of the city it inhabits.

Alain"Spiderman" Robert captured the Tour Montparnasse in 1995, the year approached, as the Eiffel Tower. Bare hands and feet, and without protective equipment, climbed the wall of steel and glass building upwards.