New Illuminati HQ in Paris?

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Images of first Paris skyscraper leaked Plans showing a pyramid-like tower rising 180 metres above Paris - the first skyscraper to be built inside the French capital in 30 years - have been leaked to the press ahead of Thursday's official unveiling. Conceived by the Swiss agency Herzog & de Meuron - who designed the Tate Modern and the "Bird's Nest" stadium for the Beijing Olympics "a sort of Kheops' pyramid squashed and morphed by computer tools, with a very narrow-width base and very stretched out lengthwise." Scheduled for completion by 2012, it will overlook Paris from its southwestern extremity at the porte de Versailles, already home to a vast exhibition centre. It is the first of six gratte-ciels (high-rise) projects to be launched by Mr Delanoë In July, the mayor won backing from Paris' city council to make exceptions to a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, currently limited to 37 metres. But the mayor insists they will be environmentally friendly.