A hundred and twenty years ago, the English designer William Morris was asked why, in the French capital, he spent so much time at the Eiffel Tower. "It is," he explained, "the only place I can't see it from." Today he would probably choose the Tour Montparnasse that rises like a 59-storey black gravestone where once was a neighbourhood of political dreamers, artists and poets. After they built this office block in 1973, the outcry was so loud, they banned new buildings over seven storeys … [Read more...]