JuanElorza writes:
> The windows widen with the altitude.
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Areva
>
> quote : It takes the form of a black parallelepiped. Its frontage is
> covered with dark granite, its windows are smoked and widen with altitude
> to limit the effect height. The architects would have been inspired by
> the monoliths presented in the film 2001 odissey of space of Stanley
> Kubrick.
Whatever its form, it is much disliked because only people working on the
perimeter of the "monolith" have windows on the outside world. Typical of its
generation, and efficient, but undesirable today. The same criticism is often
made of the Tour Maine-Montparnasse inside Paris, which was built at almost
exactly the same time. |