Paris has set a height limit of 37m for any new construction in the city.
The rule, set out by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, will effectively end the French capital’s brief flirtation with high-rise architecture, reimposing the height restriction put in place in 1977 as a response to the 210m Montparnasse tower.
Higher building began in the outer districts again after 2010 when Bertrand Delanoë, the previous mayor, raised the ceiling to 180m for office towers and 50m for residential buildings.
The trigger for the new planning law has been Le Triangle, a 48-floor glass-clad pyramid under construction in the southern Left Bank that has been likened to London’s Shard. Work began, after 13 years of delays, in 2021 on the 180m tower with a trapezoid base in the exhibition park of Porte de Versailles.
