Montparnasse Tower: Paris’s most controversial skyscraper. The Tour Montparnasse – the Montparnasse Tower – is one of the most divisive landmarks in Paris. Rising 210 metres (689 feet) high, it was the city’s tallest building until 2022, when it was surpassed by the Tour Hekla in La Défense district. When Paris sought to modernize in the 1960s, theContinue reading “Montparnasse Tower: Paris’s most controversial skyscraper.”