FPN Editor's Blog

What goes up…

At FPN we don’t often concern ourselves with buildings that are being knocked down - we’re more interested in new developments and houses that have stood for many years and are destined to go on doing so. However, a news snippet has come to my attention that features a tower block being dynamited – nothing interesting there, you may say, but the demise of this high-rise will be immortalised on film. The block is located in the town of Montfermeil, in the Parisian suburbs, which will shortly be hosting the shooting of a film, entitled From Paris with Love, starring John Travolta no less. So if you own a property nearby, you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the US star and his entourage!

But what comes down, must go up? In another part of Paris – Porte de Versailles – the first skyscraper to be built in 30 years is being planned. Some 180m high and the work of Jacques Herzog, the building is at present only at planning stage: “It is simply a proposal to give us an idea of what a skyscraper would look like in this area, home to the Paris Exhibition Centre,” commented an urban planning adviser to the mayor.