Tour Areva

Tour Areva
Tour Areva
	Tour Areva (Formerly Tour Fiat) La Défense
General information
Type	Office
Location	La Défense; (Courbevoie)
Coordinates	48°53′32″N 2°14′31″E / 48.89222°N 2.24194°E
Construction started	1972
Completed	1974
Height
Roof	178 m (584 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	44
Floor area	102,500 m2 (1,103,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) ; Roger Saubot, Francois Jullien
Website
	parisladefense.com/en/discover/towers/areva

Tour Areva (previously known as Tour Framatome and Tour Fiat) is an office skyscraper designed by global architects SOM and located in La Défense, a high-rise business district, and in the commune of Courbevoie, France, west of Paris.

Built in 1974, the tower is 178 m (584 ft) tall.

Tour Areva is entirely black; its cladding is made of dark granite and darkened windows. Its shape is that of a perfect square prism. It is said that its architects were inspired by the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. ^{[citation needed]}

The site where the tower was built was codenamed CB1 in La Défense initial master plan. A twin tower of Tour Areva was initially planned at the current location of the Tour Total, but was cancelled due to the 1973 oil crisis.

References

^ "Tour Areva | Buildings | EMPORIS". Archived from the original on 2012-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "Tour Areva". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.

External links

Tour Areva^[usurped] (Emporis)
Expatriates Magazine A Printed publication distributed in Tour Areva for international employees

[1] "Tour Areva | Buildings | EMPORIS". Archived from the original on 2012-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[2] "Tour Areva". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.

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