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2 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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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.
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you → call → building
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 after its long-awaited renovation was halted this week because of disagreements between its many private co-owners.
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renovation → malign → owners
The tower, which opened in 1973, is the tallest skyscraper in inner-city Paris and is also considered its ugliest building.
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which → open → Paris
For more than a decade, plans have been thrashed out to overhaul the building and brighten its looming presence and modernise the area around it.
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plans → thrash → it
Architects had planned to entirely refit the 210-metre structure with a new glass exterior, adding vegetation throughout, with a garden terrace on the 16th floor and an agricultural greenhouse at the top.
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Architects → plan → top
The plans included a hotel on three floors of the 59-storey building, as well as new office and leisure spaces.
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plans → include → spaces
But alongside a significant operation to remove asbestos, the estimated price of the project more than doubled to €800m (£688m).
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price → remove → 800
The building’s private co-owners, which include French investment funds and insurers, met this week for a final vote on the start of a first phase of renovation, with asbestos removal, interior stripping and a partial facade removal.
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which → include → removal
After clashes over plans and pricing, more than three-quarters of the co-owners voted against the project.
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quarters → vote → project
It was the last opportunity to launch the project before the building permit granted for the tower’s renovation expires at the end of November.
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permit → launch → November
There are now concerns that the building, which has been emptied and closed for renovation, will loom deserted.
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which → be → renovation
This summer, fire officers intervened after bits of glass fell off the building and landed on the street below, although no one was hurt.
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one → intervene → street
“Everyone needs to come to their senses,” said Philippe Goujon, the rightwing mayor of Paris’s 15th district where the tower is located.
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tower → need → district
He told Agence France-Presse: “I cannot accept seeing a project that took 10 years to develop thrown away, or allowing this world-renowned landmark to fall into neglect.”
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landmark → tell → neglect
Four of the co-owners who still want a renovation, including the tycoon Xavier Niel, said in a joint statement: “We would like all the co-owners, financial partners and public authorities to meet soon to examine all the solutions to transform the Montparnasse Tower.”
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owners → want → Tower
Some co-owners hope that a new, scaled-down project could be agreed upon.
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project → hope → ?
Separately, the architect Renzo Piano has been tasked with overhauling the shopping centre beneath the tower and other buildings nearby, opening up new pedestrian spaces and moving from grey concrete to a greener, planted space.
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architect → task → space
Local officials want to avoid delays to that project if the tower’s renovation stalls.
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renovation → want → project
The office of the Socialist mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, said it wanted “an alternative solution to be proposed” so the site does not stay at a standstill.
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site → say → standstill
Opposition councillors on the left have suggested the “obsolete” tower should instead come down and be replaced by a park that would have a cooling effect during summer heatwaves.
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that → suggest → heatwaves
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