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Beautiful! But seriously, did they blow their whole budget on renders? I've never seen that many for a new proposal.
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C'est Fantastique! Just wish Tour Sans Fins was built...
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@BuildThemTaller : This project was launched by GROUPAMA, a French insurance company and one of the biggest in Europe. So they're loaded ! ;)
Its status is a little more advanced than "proposed" because GROUPAMA is looking for new headquarters. Also, French oil company TOTAL, is looking for new headquarters as well, their skyscraper has become a bit old by now, and they might choose this tower. Still hesitating between this one and another one under construction. So it might be under construction sooner than expected !! Interesting to note : brexit is bringing huge amounts of workers in France, for example HSBC bank is moving 2000 people from London to its Paris headquarters. So even though TOTAL doesn't choose this tower, it'll get built anyways because more and more companies are moving to Paris. |
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Are those solar panels on the facade?
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These micro-panels look more spectacular than anything we've had before, though.
I can't wait for more details when construction has begun. And this project appears to be fast, for once. Developer is Groupama. I'm loving them for this, but I also want the name of their glass panel manufacturer to possibly bow to them. Oh... This micro solar thing would be nice. It looks like the beautiful culture of Japan for saving room coming to France in an effective way. Notice local energy producers have been working with African countries on solar energy too. This is all freaking exciting. |
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Some new interior renderings :
https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...1c9b20292ce4b00d95f46e7f083a&oe=5A0217DE https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...b3530996bb29cd6d81c4533537c4&oe=59FA22E8 And another exterior view : https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...c2f8dd448e75927e7a8de7cbf29d&oe=59C7031C https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...8ea1714d5987f45536d3521d14f0&oe=5A10A66F |
Here is the building it will replace (red circle) :
https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...d591208e4caffe322860be67c92b&oe=59F7BB3D https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...2eaad39065968c0b9e5f4d47ab67&oe=59C31547 The building in the yellow circle is currently being transformed by that : http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2016/11/23/IMAGE_20161123_33716108.jpg http://en.eurosic.fr/photo/art/grande/11347890-18910218.jpg?v=1489156485 http://defense-92.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/P98YH-860x450_c.jpg |
So many renderings for this new tower. :slob:
https://www.pca-stream.com/public_data/diapo/blocs_projets/1497285112/3000/thelink_hall.jpg https://www.pca-stream.com/public_data/d...497629254/3000/thelink_rooftop_night.jpg https://www.pca-stream.com/public_data/diapo/blocs_projets/1496248191/3000/thelink_salon.jpg http://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/default/files/images/articles/2017/05/27064/27064-94339.jpg https://scontent-amt2-1.cdninstagram.com...00523070566051_4638149038514896896_n.jpg http://link-ladefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Vue-Bureaux_HDv1.jpg http://img.cap.pmdstatic.net/fit/http.3A...8-une-salle-de-conseil-comme-a-l-onu.jpg https://s12.postimg.org/bn86ng0dp/link1.png https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...027ff3cfe05d7225f5f869a2698c&oe=59F0A7DE |
Too bad the main transit hub, the Grande Arche station is somewhat remote.
Something has to be done about this because for now, this is the best spot of the district for views on the central city. At least until Neuilly eventually builds more towers to the other side of the river. I suppose that will happen in our lifetimes. Someone on these forums said the Novotel was doomed to demo. https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6154/6135670599_3802bd0794_b.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/jakglenn/6135670599 The grey concrete Lego buildings to the right are leaving anyway. The Hermitage towers should finally sit on their spot someday. But I'd never heard of the Novotel to be torn down too. It would be too old, lost its luster since more recent hotels were built around. We should get something slightly taller (around 100m/300ft) and shinier instead. |
[QUOTE=Someone on these forums said the Novotel was doomed to demo.
The grey concrete Lego buildings to the right are leaving anyway. The Hermitage towers should finally sit on their spot someday. But I'd never heard of the Novotel to be torn down too. It would be too old, lost its luster since more recent hotels were built around. We should get something slightly taller (around 100m/300ft) and shinier instead.[/QUOTE] Awesome ! This building is ugly as fuck and way too old looking for La Défense. It has had its time, now it's time for a newer, better building ! |
Here's a latest mid-rise renovation BTW, by Vincent d'Issy-les-Moulineaux.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4304/35180628063_569192b843_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4312/35858455501_e69ae9df3a_b.jpg One of those mid-rise buildings that connect la Défense's artificial ground to the regular fabric of Courbevoie. Good job there. Very nice refurbishment. |
French Oil Company TOTAL chooses The Link as their new headquarters
It's official ! Construction will begin soon for completion expected in 2022 !
French Oil Company TOTAL chooses The Link as their new headquarters https://www.businessimmo.com/contents/86...t-the-link-pour-son-nouveau-siege-social 07/27/2017 - 4:01pm After a 6 month dialogue led on three different projects, TOTAL selected The Link as their new headquarters in the heart of the Michelet area in La Defense. A protocol was signed between and TOTAL and GROUPAMA (owner and developper of the project) as a final act before breaking ground at the end of the year. This move will allow TOTAL to concentrate their entire staff in one building (6.500 people). |
I'd work there. Wouldn't get any work done, but I'd work there.
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Permits have been validated. Here are new renderings.
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Additional renderings
From the huge esplanade, you can see there's still plenty of room for more towers to the side of Puteaux, on the right, that's late on Courbevoie whose density is greater by now.
https://i.ibb.co/yqjvQ49/46610883542-abf432cc4c-k.jpg Going down the esplanade, closer view. https://i.ibb.co/V9w1c67/39698484923-167633e97a-k.jpg Now from a street of Puteaux, off the pedestrian deck. https://i.ibb.co/QCBjLNG/46615815752-c65aa34c4f-k.jpg Old modern building on the left is butt-ugly, clearly needs demo or refurbishment. Hopefully this is built for the 2024 Olympics, so the skyline as seen from the old downtown looks pretty much like this. https://i.ibb.co/55GJWP2/39698483543-2a7148ff25-k.jpg It should be this way by then. That's the view of it tons of visitors will get from Central Paris. Quote:
Quite possibly in China. That's unfair, huh. |
The old building on site is being dismantled. Pictures over here if you're curious.
This photomontage shows what the skyline should look like by 2025, as seen from the Montparnasse tower. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50368913061_194f280e49_k.jpg LA DÉFENSE 2025 by Vincent Montcuit, sur Flickr This new tower appears stuck to the right of the Eiffel on the picture, while the other new one at the left end of the cluster is Hekla, currently under construction. I think they add density to it, making it even more compact, but they're not tall enough to make any real difference in height. Supertall needed here. |
Demolition of the existing building underway
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938246546_e46ff2edae_b.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938353967_a6108c84a8_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50937556333_6eb0d70693_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50937556768_1e62827a27_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938354277_0b1447cd97_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938246711_01f3f91bed_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938354317_762f967c68_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938354262_3157dae25a_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50938262756_6300a2cd28_b.jpg Pics by Vincent Montcuit |
Very nice!
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I forgot to visit this site today, cause they've only got foundation started.
But it's officially under construction, as shown here. |
5 cranes on site; they won't be wasting any time.
My pics, yesterday. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52320123356_c338e3fae5_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52320434173_850904b898_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52319324467_a863588570_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52320433943_51a58c0fb9_b.jpg |
NICE!!!! I'll move this to the Under Construction subforum.
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Really excited to see this building in person when completed next time I return to Paris. Will this be the tallest building in the La Defense area?
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^ Yes, but there's a roughly 40m / 130 ft crown to it.
I think roof height is more relevant here and the top floor will be exactly 200m / 656 ft above the ground. There's a somewhat annoying reason for it. According to local regulations, safety standards are not the same when a top floor exceeds 200m. In such a case, they go more requiring and definitely more costly. La Défense not being the real prime location of the metro area, so far developers or businesses renting their buildings have seen no interest in surpassing the threshold enforced by the French regulator. Everyone just wants to optimize their profits. So you get 50 floors for 200m, that's an average ceiling height of roughly 4m (13 feet) per floor, which is ok. The tower is developed by TotalEnergies for their employees. Given the spot, they will enjoy exclusive views over the inner city until more towers are built around that one. |
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They put a couple of rows of cladding panels up to the first floors, but there's nothing much to see about it yet.
It is still a bare concrete structure for now. I'll post an update on here when there are more significant changes. |
I took a few pics of it this morning.
The sky quickly turned gray, gloomy with an annoying little rain. :irked: Large building anyway. It's actually made up of 2 towers connected by a column of footbridges. Hence the name of it, the "Link". Floors are put together 2 by 2 as some sort of duplexes, so to speak. The standard floor area of a resulting "duplex" would be of 6,000 m² (~65k sq ft). This is to keep work spaces as horizontal as possible and spare people working in a same team from wasting too much time in elevators. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193903218_b75f8ef662_h.jpg 2309_link_01 by mousquet, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193346529_002c38a1ad_h.jpg 2309_link_02 by mousquet, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193903223_cef7620dd9_h.jpg 2309_link_03 by mousquet, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193539726_82b275559a_h.jpg 2309_link_04 by mousquet, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193736900_d88032bffa_h.jpg 2309_link_05 by mousquet, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193539711_da9d48b6ff_h.jpg 2309_link_06 by mousquet, sur Flickr The edge of those fish scales are small solar panels. That's obviously the cool feature of the facade. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193077367_e2353b76a7_h.jpg 2309_link_07 by mousquet, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53193736895_c688c3af49_h.jpg 2309_link_08 by mousquet, sur Flickr The tallest of the 2 towers is roughly 242 m tall, but the top floor would be at 199.84 m, to be very accurate. If it was over 200 m, the regulation wouldn't be the same and would cost more to the owner of the building. So there's a crown that must be something like 35 m tall to the roof of that tallest component. The shorter tower is 178 m tall. The whole thing feels pretty big when you stand in front of it. |
Love the curves. Très bien!
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Love the solar panels built into the facade, and so far the facade looks very promising.
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That facade is REALLY interesting
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https://www.pca-stream.com/public_data/diapo/projet/1591811468/16-9/1024/03.jpg
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/eurazeo-co-chief-says-buyout-firms-need-to-go-back-to-basics-1.2025939 https://images.webcamgalore.com/webcam-Paris-29598-13.jpg https://i.ibb.co/30z3RCw/the-la-defense-...m-the-arc-de-triomph-in-central-pari.jpg The La Defense financial district on the city skyline, viewed from the Arc de Triomph in central Paris, France, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government will present a bill of measures aimed at luring more foreign financial firms to the euro area’s second-largest economy. , Bloomberg |
There are too many offices in that district already. The local office market is struggling right now.
I wonder how the minister will lure more corporations than there already are on that very spot. Does he think he can turn France into a tax haven? Laughable wishful thinking. That's not even necessary anyway. If only they were a bit less inept and awkward... They just should build residential towers over that district, to make it more mixed-use and desirable. No one wants to live there cause it's only offices and work work work. |
I might go to Puteaux one of these days to take some pics.
Meanwhile, here's a couple of shots by Arthur Weidmann. Feb. 2. Looking massive from a street of Puteaux's old town. :cool: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53504458855_9c994a0084_b.jpg The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr March 4. Starting to stick out in la Défense's skyline. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53575853832_5302ff0965_b.jpg La Défense by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr |
April 1, 2024.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53629395520_42ff1dde4a_b.jpg The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr Latest pictures (from early June) here. |
These are from early August, a month ago.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53918703669_2944ce5442_h.jpg La Défense by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53916705394_d39fd120cf_h.jpg The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53916353391_b4ddf2ed9f_h.jpg The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr Arthur Weidmann More recent pictures and details over here. |
Structural work is close to complete.
These by Arthur Weidmann are from December 16. From Neuilly-sur-Seine's main avenue. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54212371974_466b82f51f_h.jpg La Défense by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr Standing on the east edge of la Défense. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54212371914_0215297c30_h.jpg The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr There you get to see what it looks like from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. That's the most usual view over the skyline of the district, but not the best IMO. |
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^ Looking good!
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The tower is on left. The top is pretty much complete.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54473166869_e8881bb2d5_h.jpg Arthur Weidmann |
Magnificent!
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Cranes were taken down. It shouldn't be too long before interior work is complete and TotalEnergies moves in.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/618x927q90/923/8SfMAP.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/683x927q90/923/JT5rK6.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/547x927q90/924/Iul1pL.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/514x927q90/924/15JVXd.jpg Vincent Montcuit |
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Great addition to the skyline. :tup:
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Gorgeous building!
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j'aim ze link!
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