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La Défense

March 29, 2023

La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.

La Défense
La Défense seen from the Arc de Triomphe
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentHauts-de-Seine
Boroughs
List
Area
 • Total5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi)
Population
 (2006)
 • Total25,000
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Websiteparisladefense.com

La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district, covering 560 hectares (1,400 acres), for 180,000 daily workers,[1] with 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 20 are completed skyscrapers, out of 24 in the Paris region), and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and a 24-screen movie theatre.[2]

The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) Axe historique ("historical axis") of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine department communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students.[1][3] La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year[1] and houses an open-air museum.[4]

History

 
La Grande Arche de la Défense and the Yaacov Agam Fountain (1977). The bronze sculpture on the left, seen from the rear, is La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias, after which La Défense is named.
 
Paris, with the skyscrapers of La Défense in the background and the Eiffel Tower in the foreground taken in 2014
 
The Grande Arche is the central and defining building of La Défense. It is, with the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, the third arch on the Historical Axis of Paris.

La Défense is named after the statue La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias, which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

In September 1958, the Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense [fr] (EPAD) buildings (of which the Esso Tower was the very first) were built and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms. The Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) was built and first used in 1958. These "first generation" skyscrapers were all very similar in appearance, limited to a height of 100 metres (330 ft). In 1966, the Nobel Tower was the first office skyscraper built in the area. In 1970, the RER line A railway was opened from La Défense to Étoile.[5] In 1974, a contract for a Défense-Cergy high-speed hovercraft train was signed and soon abandoned.

In the early 1970s, in response to great demand, a second generation of buildings began to appear, but the economic crisis in 1973 nearly halted all construction in the area. A third generation of towers began to appear in the early 1980s. The biggest shopping centre in Europe (at the time), the Quatre Temps, was created in 1981. In 1982, the EPAD launched the Tête Défense competition to find a monument to complete the Axe historique, which eventually led to the construction of Grande Arche at the west end of the quarter. During the same period, hotels were constructed, the CNIT was restructured, and in 1992, Line 1 of the Paris Métro was extended to La Défense, which made the area readily accessible to even more of the city.[citation needed]

On Bastille Day 1990, French electronic composer Jean-Michel Jarre staged an ambitious concert at the site, using the Grande Arche and three of the area's towers as projection screens, and building a pyramidal stage above the road. The free concert, titled simply Paris la Defense, attracted two million spectators, stretching all the way back to the Arc de Triomphe. This beat Jarre's own previous world record for the largest attendance for a musical concert. After Jean Michel Jarre, German DJ Sash! and the singer La Trec have set at La Défense the video clip for their song Stay in 1997.

After a stagnation in new development in the mid-1990s, La Défense is once again expanding and is now the largest purpose-built business district in Europe.

Important corporations headquartered at La Défense include Neuf Cegetel, Société Générale, TotalEnergies, Aventis, Areva, and Arcelor. The tallest skyscraper, the Tour First belongs to AXA, constructed in 1974. It is 231 metres (758 ft) high, has 50 floors, and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area (a title previously held by the Tour Montparnasse, which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011, bringing it to its current height from a previous 159 metres (522 ft); the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower).

On 9 September 2008, La Défense celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge fireworks display.[6]

In December 2005, Bernard Bled, CEO & Chairman of EPAD (La Defense Management & Development Office) announced an ambitious 9-year development plan called "La Defense 2006–2015". This important modernisation plan has to give a new dimension to the district and focuses on four main axes: regenerate outdated skyscrapers, allow new buildings, improve the balance between offices and residential housing and make the transport of local employees from their homes to La Défense easier. There are 3 aims: building 150,000 square metres (1,600,000 sq ft) of offices within demolition/rebuilding projects, building 300,000 square metres (3,200,000 sq ft) of offices within new projects, and building 100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) of housing.

The government confirmed in July 2006 this plan, which has to be carried out around 2015. It is justified by the strong estate pressure, which plays in favour of building new skyscrapers near Paris. Those constructions have also the advantage to be more economical than little buildings. But it will have to overcome some difficulties: French economy faces a short-term slowdown; the government tries to balance tertiary sector employment in the whole region again, because La Défense today concentrates a major part of those jobs; and traffic is already saturated in the district, while it would need huge investments to extend transport infrastructures.

It launched high-profile international competitions and/or construction greenlight of several key 300-to-320-metre (980 to 1,050 ft) tall sustainable development-style skyscrapers such as Tour Signal, Tour Phare, Hermitage Plaza, and Tour Generali. During said December 2005 Press Conference, EPAD released to the public an elaborate 3D animation film titled "La Défense 2016".

 
The district at night

Education

Paris La Défense brings together the cluster of Leonardo da Vinci University Center and 5 business schools: EDC Paris Business School, ESSEC Business School, ICN Graduate Business School, IESEG School of Management and SKEMA Business School.[7] It is also home to the European School of Paris-La Défense, an international primary and secondary school that was accredited as a European School in 2020.

Area specifications

  • Divided into 4 major sectors
  • 1,400 acres (5.7 km2)
  • 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of offices
  • 1,500 businesses
  • 180,000 employees
  • 20,000 residents
  • 210,000 square metres (2,300,000 sq ft) of shops (including the 140,000 square metres (1,500,000 sq ft) Quatre Temps Shopping Mall)
  • 2,600 hotel rooms
  • 310,000 square metres (3,300,000 sq ft) of flagstone and sidewalk
  • 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) of greenery
  • 60 modern art sculptures and monuments

Open-air museum

Besides the representative architecture, the area also houses an open-air museum with 70 statues and pieces of modern art,[4] including the following works:

Highrise buildings

Completed highrise buildings above 50 m (164 ft) (1967–2023)

Name Built Use Height Levels Municipality
metres feet
Tour First (formerly tour AXA) 1974/2011 office 231 758 50 Courbevoie
Tour Hekla 2022 office 220 722 51 Puteaux
Tour Majunga 2014 office 194 636 47 Puteaux
Tour Total (Coupole) 1985 office 187 614 48 Courbevoie
Tour Engie (T1) 2008 office 185 607 37 Courbevoie
Tour Granite (Société Générale) 2008 office 184 600 37 Nanterre
Tour CB21 (formerly tour Gan) 1974 office 179 587 42 Courbevoie
Tour Areva 1974 office 178 584 44 Courbevoie
Tour Saint-Gobain 2020 office 178 584 39 Courbevoie
Tour D2 2014 office 171 561 37 Courbevoie
Tour Alicante (Société Générale) 1995 office 167 548 37 Nanterre
Tour Chassagne (Société Générale) 1995 office 167 548 37 Nanterre
Tour EDF 2001 office 165 541 41 Puteaux
Tour Carpe Diem 2013 office 162 531 38 Courbevoie
Cœur Défense 2001 office 161 528 40 Courbevoie
Tour Alto 2020 office 160 525 38 Courbevoie
Tour Adria (Technip) 2002 office 155 509 40 Courbevoie
Tour Égée (Ernst&Young) 1999 office 155 509 40 Courbevoie
Tour Ariane 1975 office 152 499 36 Puteaux
Tour Trinity 2020 office 151 495 32 Courbevoie
Tour Dexia (CBX) 2005 office 142 466 36 Courbevoie
Tour Europlaza 1995 office 135 443 31 Courbevoie
Tour Défense 2000 1974 residential 134 440 47 Puteaux
Tour Eqho (formerly tour Descartes) 1988 office 130 427 40 Courbevoie
Tour Les Poissons 1970 mixed 129.5 425 42 Courbevoie
Tour France 1973 residential 126 413 40 Puteaux
Tour Franklin 1972 office 120 394 33 Puteaux
Tour Sequoia (Bull, Cegetel, SFR) 1990 office 119 390 33 Puteaux
Tour Winterthur 1973 office 119 390 33 Puteaux
Tour CGI (CB16) 2003 office 117 384 32 Courbevoie
Tour Neptune 1972 office 113 371 28 Courbevoie
Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine 1974 office 113 371 25 Nanterre
Grande Arche 1989 monument, office 110 361 37 Puteaux
Tour Manhattan 1975 office 110 361 32 Courbevoie
Tour Aurore 1970 office 110 361 29 Courbevoie
Tour Eve 1975 mixed 109 358 30 Puteaux
Tour Initiale 1967 office 109 358 30 Puteaux
L'archipel 2021 office 106 353 24 Nanterre
Tour Nuage 1, Tours Aillaud 1976 residential 105 344 39 Nanterre
Tour Nuage 2, Tours Aillaud 1976 residential 105 344 39 Nanterre
Tour Gambetta 1975 residential 104 341 37 Courbevoie
Tour Cèdre 1998 office 103 338 26 Courbevoie
Tour Opus 12 1973 office 100 328 27 Puteaux
Tour Athéna 1984 office 100 328 25 Puteaux
Tour Europe 1969 office 99 325 28 Courbevoie
Tour AIG 1967 office 99 325 27 Courbevoie
Tour Prisma (Tour Kvaerner) 1998 office 97 318 25 Courbevoie
Tour Atlantique 1970 office 95 312 27 Puteaux
Tour Pascal 1983 office 95 312 27 Puteaux
Tour Pacific 1992 office 90 295 25 Puteaux
Skylight 2017 residential 76 249 19 Puteaux
Rose de Cherbourg residence 2018 housing 75 246 20 Puteaux
Tour Eria 2021 mix 59.35 195 13 Puteaux

Upcoming highrise buildings (2023–2027)

Name Use Height Levels Municipality Status Estimated Year of Completion
metres feet
The Link office 244 801 52 Puteaux under construction 2025
Tour Sister 1 office 229 718 55 Courbevoie approved 2027
Tour des Jardins de l'Arche office & hotel 210 656 54 Nanterre approved 2027
Tour C/ (Odyssey) office 187 613 42 Courbevoie approved 2026
Tour O/ (Odyssey) mix 174 570 33 Courbevoie approved 2026
Tours Sister 2 office 131 396 26 Courbevoie approved 2027
Tour D/ (Odyssey) mix 101 331 ? Courbevoie approved 2026

Canceled projects

  1. Tour Sans Fins (1989): 425 m (1,394 ft)
  2. Hermitage Plaza (2022): 323 m (1,060 ft)
  3. Tour Generali (2011): 319 m (1,047 ft)
  4. Tour Signal (2009): 301 m (988 ft)
  5. Tour Phare (2018): 296 m (971 ft)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "La Défense, Tout sur ce quartier d'exception". Ville de Courbevoie. Retrieved 19 October 2021. Ce territoire stratégique pour l'économie nationale s'étend sur plus de 560 hectares. Chiffres clés: 180 0000 emplois, 25 000 habitants, 45 000 étudiants, Plus de 8 millions de touristes
  2. ^ "La Défense near Paris. Shopping. Map". Paris Digest. 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  3. ^ Fallon, Steve; Annabel Hart (2006). Paris. Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet. p. 155. ISBN 1-74059-849-0.
  4. ^ a b La Défense > Artworks: Guide 2013. Leaflet published by Defacto, Établissement public de gestion du quartier d'affaires de la Défense.
  5. ^ "Portrait of the RER A – RATP". www.ratp.fr. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  6. ^ La Défense : 50 ans d’histoire 9 November 2008, Danielle Birck (in French)
  7. ^ ÉTUDIER
  8. ^ "La Défonce | Defacto – Quartier d'affaires de la Defense". Ladefense.fr. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  9. ^ . Ladefense.fr. 30 September 2014. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

Further reading

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Défense.
 
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for La Défense.
  • Satellite image from Google Maps
  • Site officiel de l'EPAD (Établissement Public pour l'Aménagement de la Défense) (in French)
  • (in English)
  • Expatriates Magazine, A printed publication distributed within various corporations situated in La Defense helping international employees integrate within the workplace and city (in English)
  • Les bâtiments de la Défense (in French)
  • Structurae: Structural engineering and architecture guide to Paris-La Défense (in English)

Coordinates: 48°53′30.27″N 2°14′27.00″E / 48.8917417°N 2.2408333°E / 48.8917417; 2.2408333

March 29, 2023
défense, french, major, business, district, france, located, kilometres, west, city, limits, paris, part, paris, metropolitan, area, Île, france, region, located, department, hauts, seine, communes, courbevoie, garenne, colombes, nanterre, puteaux, seen, from,. La Defense French la de fɑ s is a major business district in France located 3 kilometres 1 9 mi west of the city limits of Paris It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Ile de France region located in the department of Hauts de Seine in the communes of Courbevoie La Garenne Colombes Nanterre and Puteaux La DefenseLa Defense seen from the Arc de TriompheCountryFranceRegionIle de FranceDepartmentHauts de SeineBoroughsList CourbevoieLa Garenne ColombesNanterrePuteauxArea Total5 6 km2 2 2 sq mi Population 2006 Total25 000Time zoneUTC 1 CET Summer DST UTC 2 CEST Websiteparisladefense wbr comLa Defense is Europe s largest purpose built business district covering 560 hectares 1 400 acres for 180 000 daily workers 1 with 72 glass and steel buildings of which 20 are completed skyscrapers out of 24 in the Paris region and 3 500 000 square metres 38 000 000 sq ft of office space Around its Grande Arche and esplanade le Parvis La Defense contains many of the Paris urban area s tallest high rises Les Quatre Temps a large shopping mall in La Defense has 220 stores 48 restaurants and a 24 screen movie theatre 2 The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10 kilometre long 6 2 mi Axe historique historical axis of Paris which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs Elysees well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armee before culminating at La Defense The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts de Seine department communes of Courbevoie La Garenne Colombes Nanterre and Puteaux La Defense is primarily a business district and hosts a population of 25 000 permanent residents and 45 000 students 1 3 La Defense is also visited by 8 000 000 tourists each year 1 and houses an open air museum 4 Contents 1 History 2 Education 3 Area specifications 4 Open air museum 5 Highrise buildings 5 1 Completed highrise buildings above 50 m 164 ft 1967 2023 5 2 Upcoming highrise buildings 2023 2027 5 3 Canceled projects 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory Edit La Grande Arche de la Defense and the Yaacov Agam Fountain 1977 The bronze sculpture on the left seen from the rear is La Defense de Paris by Louis Ernest Barrias after which La Defense is named Paris with the skyscrapers of La Defense in the background and the Eiffel Tower in the foreground taken in 2014 The Grande Arche is the central and defining building of La Defense It is with the Arc de Triomphe de l Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel the third arch on the Historical Axis of Paris La Defense is named after the statue La Defense de Paris by Louis Ernest Barrias which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco Prussian War In September 1958 the Public Establishment for Installation of La Defense fr EPAD buildings of which the Esso Tower was the very first were built and began to slowly replace the city s factories shanties and even a few farms The Centre of New Industries and Technologies CNIT was built and first used in 1958 These first generation skyscrapers were all very similar in appearance limited to a height of 100 metres 330 ft In 1966 the Nobel Tower was the first office skyscraper built in the area In 1970 the RER line A railway was opened from La Defense to Etoile 5 In 1974 a contract for a Defense Cergy high speed hovercraft train was signed and soon abandoned In the early 1970s in response to great demand a second generation of buildings began to appear but the economic crisis in 1973 nearly halted all construction in the area A third generation of towers began to appear in the early 1980s The biggest shopping centre in Europe at the time the Quatre Temps was created in 1981 In 1982 the EPAD launched the Tete Defense competition to find a monument to complete the Axe historique which eventually led to the construction of Grande Arche at the west end of the quarter During the same period hotels were constructed the CNIT was restructured and in 1992 Line 1 of the Paris Metro was extended to La Defense which made the area readily accessible to even more of the city citation needed On Bastille Day 1990 French electronic composer Jean Michel Jarre staged an ambitious concert at the site using the Grande Arche and three of the area s towers as projection screens and building a pyramidal stage above the road The free concert titled simply Paris la Defense attracted two million spectators stretching all the way back to the Arc de Triomphe This beat Jarre s own previous world record for the largest attendance for a musical concert After Jean Michel Jarre German DJ Sash and the singer La Trec have set at La Defense the video clip for their song Stay in 1997 After a stagnation in new development in the mid 1990s La Defense is once again expanding and is now the largest purpose built business district in Europe Important corporations headquartered at La Defense include Neuf Cegetel Societe Generale TotalEnergies Aventis Areva and Arcelor The tallest skyscraper the Tour First belongs to AXA constructed in 1974 It is 231 metres 758 ft high has 50 floors and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area a title previously held by the Tour Montparnasse which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011 bringing it to its current height from a previous 159 metres 522 ft the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower On 9 September 2008 La Defense celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge fireworks display 6 In December 2005 Bernard Bled CEO amp Chairman of EPAD La Defense Management amp Development Office announced an ambitious 9 year development plan called La Defense 2006 2015 This important modernisation plan has to give a new dimension to the district and focuses on four main axes regenerate outdated skyscrapers allow new buildings improve the balance between offices and residential housing and make the transport of local employees from their homes to La Defense easier There are 3 aims building 150 000 square metres 1 600 000 sq ft of offices within demolition rebuilding projects building 300 000 square metres 3 200 000 sq ft of offices within new projects and building 100 000 square metres 1 100 000 sq ft of housing The government confirmed in July 2006 this plan which has to be carried out around 2015 It is justified by the strong estate pressure which plays in favour of building new skyscrapers near Paris Those constructions have also the advantage to be more economical than little buildings But it will have to overcome some difficulties French economy faces a short term slowdown the government tries to balance tertiary sector employment in the whole region again because La Defense today concentrates a major part of those jobs and traffic is already saturated in the district while it would need huge investments to extend transport infrastructures It launched high profile international competitions and or construction greenlight of several key 300 to 320 metre 980 to 1 050 ft tall sustainable development style skyscrapers such as Tour Signal Tour Phare Hermitage Plaza and Tour Generali During said December 2005 Press Conference EPAD released to the public an elaborate 3D animation film titled La Defense 2016 The district at nightEducation EditParis La Defense brings together the cluster of Leonardo da Vinci University Center and 5 business schools EDC Paris Business School ESSEC Business School ICN Graduate Business School IESEG School of Management and SKEMA Business School 7 It is also home to the European School of Paris La Defense an international primary and secondary school that was accredited as a European School in 2020 Area specifications EditDivided into 4 major sectors 1 400 acres 5 7 km2 3 500 000 square metres 38 000 000 sq ft of offices 1 500 businesses 180 000 employees 20 000 residents 210 000 square metres 2 300 000 sq ft of shops including the 140 000 square metres 1 500 000 sq ft Quatre Temps Shopping Mall 2 600 hotel rooms 310 000 square metres 3 300 000 sq ft of flagstone and sidewalk 110 000 square metres 1 200 000 sq ft of greenery 60 modern art sculptures and monuments The name of the district comes from the statue of La Defense de Paris by Louis Ernest Barrias which commemorates the Parisian resistance during the Franco Prussian War View from Arc de Triomphe at night View from Eiffel Tower The Mall Les Quatre Temps Skylight tower Western part of La Defense as seen from the Grande Arche La Defense from the top of the Grande Arche Open air museum EditBesides the representative architecture the area also houses an open air museum with 70 statues and pieces of modern art 4 including the following works Cesar Thumb 1965 Joan Miro Two fantastic characters 1976 Alexander Calder Red Spider 1976 Yaacov Agam Fountain 1977 Richard Serra Slat 1982 Shelomo Selinger The Dance 1983 Bernar Venet Two Indeterminate Lines 1988 Takis Bright Trees 1990 Igor Mitoraj Tindaro 1997 Emily Young Four Heads 2002 Patrick Blanc Green wall 2006 Louis Ernest Barrias La Defense de Paris 1883 Francois Morellet La Defonce 1990 8 Guillaume Bottazzi Peinture de 216 m 2014 9 Cesar s Le Pouce the Thumb 1965 Yaacov Agam Fountain c 1977 Takis Bright Trees c 1990 Guillaume Bottazzi Untitled c 2014Highrise buildings Edit Tour First Tour Total Tour Areva Tour TrinityCompleted highrise buildings above 50 m 164 ft 1967 2023 Edit Name Built Use Height Levels Municipalitymetres feetTour First formerly tour AXA 1974 2011 office 231 758 50 CourbevoieTour Hekla 2022 office 220 722 51 PuteauxTour Majunga 2014 office 194 636 47 PuteauxTour Total Coupole 1985 office 187 614 48 CourbevoieTour Engie T1 2008 office 185 607 37 CourbevoieTour Granite Societe Generale 2008 office 184 600 37 NanterreTour CB21 formerly tour Gan 1974 office 179 587 42 CourbevoieTour Areva 1974 office 178 584 44 CourbevoieTour Saint Gobain 2020 office 178 584 39 CourbevoieTour D2 2014 office 171 561 37 CourbevoieTour Alicante Societe Generale 1995 office 167 548 37 NanterreTour Chassagne Societe Generale 1995 office 167 548 37 NanterreTour EDF 2001 office 165 541 41 PuteauxTour Carpe Diem 2013 office 162 531 38 CourbevoieCœur Defense 2001 office 161 528 40 CourbevoieTour Alto 2020 office 160 525 38 CourbevoieTour Adria Technip 2002 office 155 509 40 CourbevoieTour Egee Ernst amp Young 1999 office 155 509 40 CourbevoieTour Ariane 1975 office 152 499 36 PuteauxTour Trinity 2020 office 151 495 32 CourbevoieTour Dexia CBX 2005 office 142 466 36 CourbevoieTour Europlaza 1995 office 135 443 31 CourbevoieTour Defense 2000 1974 residential 134 440 47 PuteauxTour Eqho formerly tour Descartes 1988 office 130 427 40 CourbevoieTour Les Poissons 1970 mixed 129 5 425 42 CourbevoieTour France 1973 residential 126 413 40 PuteauxTour Franklin 1972 office 120 394 33 PuteauxTour Sequoia Bull Cegetel SFR 1990 office 119 390 33 PuteauxTour Winterthur 1973 office 119 390 33 PuteauxTour CGI CB16 2003 office 117 384 32 CourbevoieTour Neptune 1972 office 113 371 28 CourbevoiePrefecture des Hauts de Seine 1974 office 113 371 25 NanterreGrande Arche 1989 monument office 110 361 37 PuteauxTour Manhattan 1975 office 110 361 32 CourbevoieTour Aurore 1970 office 110 361 29 CourbevoieTour Eve 1975 mixed 109 358 30 PuteauxTour Initiale 1967 office 109 358 30 PuteauxL archipel 2021 office 106 353 24 NanterreTour Nuage 1 Tours Aillaud 1976 residential 105 344 39 NanterreTour Nuage 2 Tours Aillaud 1976 residential 105 344 39 NanterreTour Gambetta 1975 residential 104 341 37 CourbevoieTour Cedre 1998 office 103 338 26 CourbevoieTour Opus 12 1973 office 100 328 27 PuteauxTour Athena 1984 office 100 328 25 PuteauxTour Europe 1969 office 99 325 28 CourbevoieTour AIG 1967 office 99 325 27 CourbevoieTour Prisma Tour Kvaerner 1998 office 97 318 25 CourbevoieTour Atlantique 1970 office 95 312 27 PuteauxTour Pascal 1983 office 95 312 27 PuteauxTour Pacific 1992 office 90 295 25 PuteauxSkylight 2017 residential 76 249 19 PuteauxRose de Cherbourg residence 2018 housing 75 246 20 PuteauxTour Eria 2021 mix 59 35 195 13 PuteauxUpcoming highrise buildings 2023 2027 Edit Name Use Height Levels Municipality Status Estimated Year of Completionmetres feetThe Link office 244 801 52 Puteaux under construction 2025Tour Sister 1 office 229 718 55 Courbevoie approved 2027Tour des Jardins de l Arche office amp hotel 210 656 54 Nanterre approved 2027Tour C Odyssey office 187 613 42 Courbevoie approved 2026Tour O Odyssey mix 174 570 33 Courbevoie approved 2026Tours Sister 2 office 131 396 26 Courbevoie approved 2027Tour D Odyssey mix 101 331 Courbevoie approved 2026Canceled projects Edit Tour Sans Fins 1989 425 m 1 394 ft Hermitage Plaza 2022 323 m 1 060 ft Tour Generali 2011 319 m 1 047 ft Tour Signal 2009 301 m 988 ft Tour Phare 2018 296 m 971 ft See also Edit France portalList of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris regionReferences Edit a b c La Defense Tout sur ce quartier d exception Ville de Courbevoie Retrieved 19 October 2021 Ce territoire strategique pour l economie nationale s etend sur plus de 560 hectares Chiffres cles 180 0000 emplois 25 000 habitants 45 000 etudiants Plus de 8 millions de touristes La Defense near Paris Shopping Map Paris Digest 2018 Retrieved 19 October 2018 Fallon Steve Annabel Hart 2006 Paris Footscray Victoria Lonely Planet p 155 ISBN 1 74059 849 0 a b La Defense gt Artworks Guide 2013 Leaflet published by Defacto Etablissement public de gestion du quartier d affaires de la Defense Portrait of the RER A RATP www ratp fr Retrieved 31 January 2018 La Defense 50 ans d histoire 9 November 2008 Danielle Birck in French ETUDIER La Defonce Defacto Quartier d affaires de la Defense Ladefense fr Retrieved 20 February 2016 Une oeuvre geante de Guillaume Bottazzi a La Defense Defacto Quartier d affaires de la Defense Ladefense fr 30 September 2014 Archived from the original on 11 March 2016 Retrieved 20 February 2016 Further reading EditSchaugg Johannes High Rise Buildings La Defense Books on Demand 2009 ISBN 978 3 8391 4523 4 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Defense Wikivoyage has a travel guide for La Defense Satellite image from Google Maps La Defense de Paris Site officiel de l EPAD Etablissement Public pour l Amenagement de la Defense in French Connecting Paris web site created by the Chamber of commerce and industry of Paris to help companies setting up in La Defense in English Expatriates Magazine A printed publication distributed within various corporations situated in La Defense helping international employees integrate within the workplace and city in English Les batiments de la Defense in French Structurae Structural engineering and architecture guide to Paris La Defense in English Coordinates 48 53 30 27 N 2 14 27 00 E 48 8917417 N 2 2408333 E 48 8917417 2 2408333 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title La Defense amp oldid 1144789632, 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