The Administrative Court of Paris has approved Paris’ first skyscraper since Montparnasse in 1973, set to be located in the city's south.

The Tour Triangle, a 41-storey triangular tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron, will be located in the Porte de Versailles neighbourhood, in Paris' 15th arrondissement.

The controversial project was first unveiled by architects Herzog & de Meuron in 2008 and was quickly met with fierce criticism, with local residents claiming the building would overshadow them and politicians alleging that the design would be unsustainable.

The ambitious building was first rejected in late-2014, and subsequently approved after some modifications by the Council of Paris mid-2015 by a narrow majority.

The project was then pushed back after three neighbourhood associations, SOS Paris, France Nature Environment Ile-de-France and the association for the Harmonious Development of the Porte de Versailles, moved to retract the approval.