Paris  - The design by French star architect Jean Nouvel has been chosen for a new skyscraper to be built in the La Defense district just outside Paris, the web site of the weekly Le Point reported Tuesday.

The 62-year-old Nouvel, who is this year's winner of the Pritzker Prize, world architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, was selected over four other world-renowned architects, including Norman Foster of England and American Daniel Libeskind.

Nouvel's winning design calls for a building 301 metres high - the height of the Eiffel Tower - with a surface of 140,000 square metres that will comprise four atria, a hotel, offices, residences, shops and restaurants.

Cost of the project is estimated at about 600 million euros (948 million dollars), and construction is scheduled to be completed by Christmas 2013.

Among the numerous significant buildings Nouvel has designed are the Arab World Institute in Paris, Barcelona's Torre Agbar, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is currently being built. (dpa)