Front de Seine
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, located along the river Seine
Seine
The Seine is a -long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Saint-Seine near Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre . It is navigable by ocean-going vessels...
in the 15th arrondissement
XVe arrondissement
The 15th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.Situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine and sharing the Montparnasse district with the 6th and 14th arrondissements, it is the city's most populous arrondissement...
right at the South of the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...
. It is with the 13th arrondissement
XIIIe arrondissement
The 13th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France....
and La Défense
La Défense
La Défense is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. With a population of 20,000, it is centered in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux...
, one of the districts hosting the most highrise buildings in the Paris area.
Description
The Front de Seine district is the result of an urban planningUrban planning
Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
project from the 1970s. It includes about 20 towers reaching nearly 100 meters of height built all around an elevated espalanade. That esplanade is paved with fresco
Fresco
Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
s that can only be seen from the elevated floors of the towers. As opposed to Italie 13
Italie 13
Italie 13 is the name of a large urbanism project in Paris which started in the 1960s and was interrupted in the 1970s. Its purpose was to profoundly modify the structure of some areas of the 13th arrondissement, mainly around the Avenue d'Italie which inspired its name...
, the design of the towers is much more varied. The Hôtel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (formerly known as Hôtel Nikkō), for instance, has red-encircled windows while the Tour Totem consists of a stack of several glassed-blocks.
Furthermore, while 13th arrondissement towers are predominantly residential and La Défense
La Défense
La Défense is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. With a population of 20,000, it is centered in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux...
towers are predominantly commercial, the towers from the Front de Seine are of mixed commercial and residential use.
High-rise buildings
Among the tallest towers in the district, we can find rising to 98 meters:- Tour Avant-Seine (1975): 98 m, 32 storeys.
- Tour Mars (1974): 98 m, 32 storeys.
- Tour Paris Côté Seine (1977): 98 m, 32 storeys.
- Tour Seine (1970): 98 m, 32 storeys
- Tour Espace 2000 (1976): 98 m, 31 storeys.
- Tour Évasion 2000 (1971): 98 m, 31 storeys.
- Hôtel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (1976): 98 m, 31 storeys.
- Tour Totem (1979): 98 m, 31 storeys.
- Tour Beaugrenelle (1979): 98 m, 30 storeys.
- Tour Panorama (1974): 98 m, 30 storeys.
- Tour Perspective 1 (1973): 98 m, 30 storeys.
- Tour Perspective 2 (1975): 98 m, 30 storeys.
- Tour Reflets (1976): 98 m, 30 storeys.
- Tour Rive Gauche (1975): 98 m, 30 storeys.
- Tour Keller (1970): 98 m, 29 storeys.
- Tour Cristal (1990): 98 m, 27 storeys.
- 79 quai André Citroën: 24 storeys.
- Tour Mirabeau (1972): 18 storeys.
- Immeuble le Village (1973): 17 storeys.
- Bureaux Hachette Livre (1969): 12 storeys.
- Tour Mercure (1973): 12 storeys.
See also
- Italie 13Italie 13Italie 13 is the name of a large urbanism project in Paris which started in the 1960s and was interrupted in the 1970s. Its purpose was to profoundly modify the structure of some areas of the 13th arrondissement, mainly around the Avenue d'Italie which inspired its name...
- La DéfenseLa DéfenseLa Défense is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. With a population of 20,000, it is centered in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux...
- List of tallest structures in Paris
External links
- Front-de-Seine (Emporis)
- Front-de-Seine (Structurae)