Tour Égée is an office skyscraper

Skyscraper

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 located in 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...

, the high-rise business district

Central business district

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 situated west of Paris

Paris

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, France

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Tour Égée was built in 1999 by Michel Andrault and Nicolas Ayoub, architects from Conceptua. A twin of Tour Égée, Tour Adria

Tour Adria

Tour Adria is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district situated west of Paris, France. It has a triangular floorplan....

, was built nearby three years later in 2002. The only difference between both towers consists in their cladding: the one from Adria is darker when the one from Égée is lighter with a glass cladding giving an interesting feeling of vertical and horizontal stripes crossing at the level of each window. Tour Égée is 155 m (509 ft) tall and has a triangular floorplan.

External links

• Tour Égée (Emporis)