Paris gets its grillz

It wasn't so very long ago the I.M. Pei was stirring up scandale with his relooking of the Louvre. But this new project from Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron - the first skyscraper to be authorized within thirty years - is making Pei's glass pyramid look downright austere.


I've heard people call this design a 'witch's hat', but have you ever seen a sorcière with that much bling? I myself think it looks like a glittering bicuspid.

This is apparently the first of six skyscrapers that have been authorized by Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and the Paris City Council. I'm hoping that the other five are identical and spaced out along the southern périphérique so as to resemble a full set of Gangsta Grillz.

The world will be so jealous.