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Istanbul's 'illegal' towers to be demolished after landmark court ruling | theguardian.com http://j.mp/1tzXMoi

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To my opinion whatever the city and more specially if it is one of the most impressive old capitos of the Planet Earth, all kinds of architectures should easily coexist. But, the buildings must be a symbol of excellence if they belong to a prestigious landscape. I don't see any reason to destroy those buildings if they were designed by famous architects and/or are well built by the best of the construction contractors.
There is a big controversy in Paris with the Montparnasse Tower built in the 70ies as the tallest skycraper of France. I live at two blocks of it and I knew the district when there was the old Montparnasse Railway Station which had to be destroyed because of its obsolescence. I do regret the destruction of the northern station termed Gare de l'Arrivée because of the building could be renewed and transformed like the Gare d'Orsay as a Museum. The French are today 25th of August celebrating the signature of the Liberation of Paris by General Leclercq and General von Choltitz 70 years ago in 1944.
I don't complain on the destruction of the Gare du Maine-Départ and the ugly bridge of the avenue du Maine anyway. I like the Montparnasse Tower and the new Montparnasse Station though it took time to be used to include the latter in the landscape since the place in between both building is too tight and narrow to welcome hosts of travelors now.
The major problem is based upon the big use of asbestos coating with a high-risk of lung cancers among the numerous people working in the offices of the 52 floors of the Towers. There are no living apartments there but economical impact of the removal required by the prevention of the risk of asbestosis is terribly negative for both the investors and the commercial environment. More and more people I don't belong to are claiming for the destruction of the tower. I know the cost of the removal undertaken several years ago has been ruinous and ineffective since half of the building has been treated only! I don't knoiw what the best solution is but I feel as a doctor that the risk of asbestosis is too much treated hysterically by the integrist ecologists and one should evaluated how fruitful against fire prevention asbestos has been. On the other hand I like the smart architecture of the Montparnasse Tower expressing the glass-style of the second half of the XXth Century inspired by Manhattan and Chicago. I'm delighted by the vision of the tower emerging not too far of the Eiffel Tower upward the Haussmannian buildings featuring most of the ancient Paris built in the XIXth Century by Napoleon IIIrd.