“PARIS HEARTBEAT” WINNING PROPOSAL
More than 30,000 people reportedly voted on 226 project submissions before the competition ended on June 30, and the winning proposal by Chinese designers Zeyu Cai and Sibei Li, called “Paris Heartbeat,” featured a new spire composed of hundreds of mirrors (that, when viewed from the inside, offers a kaleidoscopic view of the city outside). At the spire’s peak, they encased a time capsule, to be opened every 50 years, and held in place by magnetic levitation.
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Image Credit: Zeyu Cai and Sibei Li