Article source: Paillard architect & urban planner
“The opportunity to build apartments at La Défense remains a rare one. All the more so an apartment tower (top floor at 50 m). In fact, some thirty years have passed since the building of the last one. The district of La Défense, willed into existence by General de Gaulle to show the world of the 1960s that France was entering into the modern world of finance and business (the famous “Trente Glorieuses” or thirty-year post-war boom), is a curious above-ground urban mixture, an artificial island, veritable realm of “corporate architecture” punctuated by multitude of high-rise office towers, business centers, rather hollow official monuments, shopping centers and a few public housing complexes, the whole placed atop an immense, windswept concrete slab and irrigated from below by a labyrinth of vehicular arteries, railway tunnels among other piped networks.
Image Courtesy © Guillaume Guerin
- Architects: Paillard architect & urban planner
- Project: Skylight Tower
- Location: La Défense, Paris
- Photography: Guillaume Guerin
- Client: NEXITY Paris Val de Seine, Student housing sold to GECINA
- Project head: Nicolas Land
- General contractor: Bouygues Construction Habitat Résidentiel
- Supervising office: BTP Consultant
- Surface area: 11 475 m²
- Competition: December 2012
- Delivery: September 2017
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