Paris Might Build A Modern Glass Tower--And Some People Are Furious

Paris is world famous for its gorgeous, uniform 19th-century Haussmann-style architecture. As a result, Parisians are generally wary or even outright hostile toward new construction: when the Pompidou Centre was built in 1977, critics called it an eyesore, and the Tour Montparnasse was so reviled when it was built in 1969 that it was the last tower to be built in the central city since the '60s.  But now Paris's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, is arguing that the city needs new high-rise construction to ...