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General Information

Other name(s): Tour PB6
Beginning of works: 1999
Completion: 2001
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , , ,
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Address: 20, Place de la Défense
Part of:
Connects to: Silex²
Coordinates: 48° 53' 23.53" N    2° 14' 29.36" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

width 31.2 m
length 74.5 m
number of floors (above ground) 41
office space 57 000 m²
standard floor height 3.45 m
gross floor space (per floor) 1 600 m²
level of roof +210 NGF
height from street level 155 m
height from foundation level 178 m
building core width 14.1 m
length 31.4 m
core area per floor 420 m²

Materials

core wall high performance concrete
columns high performance concrete

Chronology

21 June 1996

Application for a construction permit.

19 December 1996

Construction permit is issued.

November 1998

Contract is awarded.

December 1998

Beginning of construction.

December 1998

Invitation to tender.

April 2001

End of construction.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Tour EDF is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district west of Paris, France.

The tower was built for Électricité de France (EDF), France's main electricity company, and hosts the company's offices. Tour EDF is 165 m (541 ft) tall. The skyscraper's ground shape is elliptical, with a maximum length of 70 m (230 ft) and a maximum width of 32 m (105 ft).

Description

Tour EDF's most striking characteristic consists in the extrusion of a conic section of the tower on its northern edge. The resulting conic hole extends from the ground floor to the 26th floor and serves as the main entrance to the tower, an entrance built under a wide circular canopy 24 m (79 ft) in diameter. As a consequence, the length of the tower is slightly less at its base than at its top.

The cladding of the tower alternates horizontal stripes of plain steel and tinted windows.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Tour Légende" and modified on February 21, 2022 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

Participants

Owner
Client
Architecture
Structural engineering
Checking engineering
Contractor
Formwork
Mechanical & electrical engineering
(role unknown)

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20004243
  • Published on:
    10/07/2002
  • Last updated on:
    08/06/2018
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