After nearly five years of intense back-and-forth deliberation, French courts have finally greenlit the Herzog & de Meuron –designed Triangle Tower in Paris. Located in the southern 15th arrondissement by Porte de Versailles on the Périphérique, the boulevard that circles the city’s limits, this will be the city’s first new skyscraper built since the Tour de Montparnasse. Construction is expected to begin in 2020 and finish in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The project, which was first unveiled in 2008 and is estimated to cost 500 million euros, has been met with fierce criticism by both locals who fear it will fundamentally change the fabric of the neighborhood and politicians who argue that the building’s irregular shape will require higher energy consumption. It has also been met with sharp criticism from Parisians who feel that it does nothing to address the larger problems they’re facing, including a lack of affordable housing, issues with public transport, and a decline in quality of life due to lack of policy.

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Construction had been pushed back multiple times after opposition by neighborhood groups including SOS Paris, France Nature Environment Île-de-France, and the Association for Harmonious Development of Porte de Versailles, who moved to retract the approval that was narrowly granted in 2015. The construction was set to continue until the building permit was revoked in April of 2017. But the court’s ruling on Monday found that the building permit was not, in fact, unlawful. “The mayor of Paris did not commit an error in assessing that the project is not likely to affect the neighborhood’s character or views,” the administrative court told Le Parisien .

“The Triangle Tower is a part of the new construction that is drawing the new Paris,” remarked Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy in charge of urbanism and architecture to the Agénce France Presse. At 42 stories tall, the triangular structure will be home to a hotel, a panoramic restaurant, a visitor’s center, a co-working space with accommodations for up to 5,000 workers, a health center, and a daycare, among other amenities. Herzog & de Meuron’s triangular structure offers different shapes depending on where it’s viewed from; sometimes appearing slender and pointed, other times strong and triangular.