General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Central core with perimeter columns |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
Location
| Location: |
Paris-La Défense, Hauts-de-Seine (92), Ile-de-France, France Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine (92), Ile-de-France, France |
|---|---|
| Address: | 20, Place de la Défense |
| Part of: | |
| Connects to: |
Silex²
|
| Coordinates: | 48° 53' 23.53" N 2° 14' 29.36" E |
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 21 February 2022 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2004): La Tour EDF. In: (2004): Le Paris des Centraliens. Action artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France), pp. 132-137.
- (2002): La tour Hines à la Défense: Structure, bétons, mise en oeuvre. Hines tower, La Défense: Structure, Concrete, Construction. Presented at: First fib Congress, 13-19.10.2002, Osaka, Japan, pp. 63-64.
- (2002): La tour PB6 à La Défense. In: Travaux, n. 785 (April 2002), pp. 43-48.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20004243 - Published on:
10/07/2002 - Last updated on:
08/06/2018
