Report: Tall, dark and hated: plan to renovate ‘Paris’s ugliest building’ put on hold

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Tour Montparnasse modernisation project at a standstill following clashes over pricing and other issues It has been called a carbuncle on the Paris skyline, a sombre skyscraper where visitors to its viewing platform often joke that the city looks better when you can’t see the building itself. The report also notes that The much-maligned Tour Montparnasse, a lone, dark monolith with tinted windows rising above a historic neighbourhood in the south of the city, is once again at the centre of controversy following its long-awaited renovation was halted this week because of disagreements between its many private co-owners.

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