“The site of the Rose de Cherbourg is, at the scale of its buildability authorizing a tower of approximately 220 metres in height, an inscription in the panorama and the skyline of La Défense seen from the historic axis. By its architecture of great visibility, it is of a nature to rebalance the current composition characterized by a multitude of very-high-rise towers to the north of the axis, and a lower profile to the south of this axis.”

Jean Nouvel