Cœur Défense + La Grande Arche
Cœur Défense is an office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise
business district west of Paris, France. With 350,000 m² (3.77 million
sq. ft), it is the building with the most floor space in Europe along
with the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest.
Coeur Défense was built in 2001, replacing the former Esso Tower, the
first building of the old generation to be destroyed in La Défense.
Cœur Défense is a large complex made of 2 main bodies connected to one
another by a smaller body and seating on a wide basis made of several
smaller bodies. The edges of all bodies are rounded. The cladding is
white, with large windows. An electronic system monitors white blinds
which can be drawn or opened all together at the same time.
The two main bodies are 161 m (528 ft) tall each. Both of them are
relatively thin as their width is only 24 m (79 ft), and they are out
of line with each other, so that sunlight can reach all parts of the
building.
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