Tour Montparnasse
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| Tour Montparnasse and Eiffel Tower | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | 15th arrondissement (Paris) |
| Construction time : | 1969-1973 |
| Renovation: | 2007-2013 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | International style |
| Architects : | Saubot , Beaudouin, Cassan, de Marien |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 210 m |
| Top floor: | 196 m |
| Floors : | 59 |
| Elevators : | 25th |
| Usable area : | 90,000 m² |
| Floor area : | 90,000 m² |
| Height comparison | |
| Paris : | 1. ( list ) |
| France : | 2. ( list ) |
| Europe : | 26. ( list ) |
| address | |
| Address: | 33 avenue du Maine |
| Post Code: | 75015 |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | France |
Tour Montparnasse (German: Montparnasse-Hochhaus) is the name of a 210 meter high office building in Paris . It is located in the Montparnasse district of the 15th arrondissement . It was built from 1969 to 1973 by the architect Roger Saubot on the site of the first Montparnasse train station, which was demolished in 1965. With 59 floors, it is the tallest structure in the city after the Eiffel Tower . It was the tallest building in France until 2011 , when it was surpassed by the Tour First skyscraper in La Défense . Between 2019 and 2024, the building is to be extensively renovated and several floors increased.
description
The floor plan of the building is a long rectangle with a slightly convex shape on the long sides.
The 56th floor is a public viewing floor with a restaurant. The roof (59th floor) offers an additional viewing platform with a wide view of Paris. The elevator ride, the fastest in Europe when it opened, takes just 38 seconds.
Transport links
The building is right next to the large Montparnasse train station . A suburban route ends there, plus there are metro stations and bus stops, each with several lines.
Building history and criticism
After plans for a new Montparnasse train station had failed in the 1930s, the project to renovate the run-down station district was resumed in the 1950s. This happened in connection with the creation of a new general transport plan for the French capital. In 1956, the mixed- economy company Société d'économie mixte pour l'Aménagement du secteur Maine Montparnasse (SEMMAM) was created and the Agence pour l'Opération Maine Montparnasse (AOM) to carry out the operation. The aim of these foundations was the demolition of larger parts of the station district to an extent of around 8 hectares.
The first studies on a very tall office tower were published in 1958, but met with massive criticism. The polemics about the high-rise delayed the project considerably, but in 1968, Minister of Culture André Malraux granted the building permit. The then President Charles de Gaulle and his successor Georges Pompidou distinguished themselves as supporters of the project. Despite ongoing polemics, construction began in 1969 and the building was opened in 1973.
The polemics surrounding the over 200 m high structure have not yet died down. Spiegel Online magazine reported that the members of virtualtourist.com voted the building the second ugliest in the world. But the building is also controversial in the technical discussion. The prominent building critic Bruno Flierl writes about the building: "The 'Tour Montparnasse' is considered to be one of the greatest European urban planning stupidities, as it conjures up competition with the Eiffel Tower, which the Eiffel Tower is not up to."
Others
After an expert opinion on the use of asbestos in the building was obtained in May 2005 and presented in a technical dossier, in December 2006 the owners ' meeting approved a budget of 110 million euros for asbestos removal in the communal areas . The costs for the renovation of their offices, which are also to be borne by the partial owners , were estimated at 800,000 euros per floor. In view of the completion of the work, which roughly coincides with the 40th anniversary of the high-rise, which opened in 1973, the lighting designer Régis Clouzet was commissioned with the project of a new lighting concept.
Renovation and addition (2019-2024)
An extensive renovation of the skyscraper is currently planned. In addition to a new, light, glass facade, the tower is to be extended by an 18 meter high glass sky garden, which will reach a height of 228 meters after the renovation. In addition, the bottom thirteen floors are to be widened all around by 2 meters and equipped with green balconies and winter gardens. Construction work is scheduled to begin at the end of 2019 and be completed by the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The construction costs amount to 300 million euros.
gallery
Tour Montparnasse - view from the Eiffel Tower
Tour Montparnasse - view from the Arc de Triomphe
Tour Montparnasse with Eiffel Tower during the fireworks on the national holiday
literature
- Andrew Ayers: The Architecture of Paris Axel Menges Verlag Stuttgart 2003, p. 227f
See also
- List of tallest structures in Europe
- List of high-rise buildings in Europe
- List of high-rise buildings in Île-de-France
- List of high-rise buildings in La Défense
- List of high-rise buildings in Paris
Individual evidence
- ^ Tour Montparnasse In: Emporis
- ↑ La gare Montparnasse at lartnouveau.com, accessed on July 10, 2016
- ↑ L'histoire de la tour Montparnasse at batiactu.com, accessed December 18, 2016
- ^ "Travel bloggers choose ugliest buildings in the world" , Spiegel Online, November 21, 2008
- ^ Bruno Flierl: Hundred years of high-rise buildings, high-rise buildings and the city in the 20th century , Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-345-00677-4 , p. 119
- ^ Asbestos alarm in the Montparnasse tower , Hamburger Abendblatt , March 15, 2005
- ↑ Keren Lentschner: La tour Montparnasse n'aura plus d'amiante en 2011 , Le Figaro, June 26, 2007
- ↑ La Tour Montparnasse reprend des couleurs Le Figaro, March 20, 2012
- ↑ Marc Zitzmann: The dark tower is to become the glass heart of the city , Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 26, 2017
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 31.3 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 18.8" E
Web links
- Tour Montparnasse. In: Structurae
- Tour Montparnasse 56 - Information for visitors (German)
| predecessor | title | successor |
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| Tour du Midi | Tallest building in the European Union 1973–1990 |
Messeturm (Frankfurt am Main) |
| Tour Les Poissons | Tallest building in France 1973–2011 |
Tour First |
| Tour Fugue |
Tallest building in Paris 1973 – today |
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