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Tour AXA
1, place des Saisons - La Défense 1
Courbevoie (Paris) France
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| Status: | destroyed | | Construction Dates | | Finished | 1974 | | Floor Count | 39 | | Basement Floors | 3 | | Floor Area | 68,000 m² |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - modern | | Materials | | - glass | | - aluminium | | - concrete, reinforced |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 522 ft | | | | | | | | | | Top floor | | 476 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Architects: Pierre Dufau / Stenzel / Jean-Pierre Dacbert.
• Developer: UAP (Union des Assurances de Paris).
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• This tower is in the shaped volume of a three-pointed star, symbolized the merger of three insurance companies into one, Union des Assurances de Paris, and features an interesting facade constructed of aluminium, double-glazed glass, and bronze-colored stone.
• In 2006, a complete reconstruction of this tower was proposed by Cogedim Entreprise with Kohn Perdersen Fox Associates and Saubot & Rouit Associés as design architects includes recladding the tower in glass, and increasing its height to 225 meters.
• The tower facade and style is reconstructed in a new project: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=56433
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