Granite Tower Offices in Paris, France

April 13, 2011 Category: Cultural, Public Buildings

The Granite Tower offices designed by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc is located in Paris, France.  Forming the head of this triangle of towers the Granite Tower (Tour Granite) covers 70,000 sq m and forms a prismatic shape to make best use of the footprint space.

La Défense is a cosmopolitan business area to the west side of Paris. Out of 72 office buildings in the 3.5 million sq m area Granite Tower is the fourth tallest but Portzamparc’s studies into optimizing the effectiveness of space mean that the design limits intrusion on views to the other towers.

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