Tours Aillaud

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Tours Aillaud
Tours Nuages
Tours Aillaud
Basic data
Place: Nanterre , La Defense , France
Construction time : 19 ?? - 1977
Status : built
Architect : Émile Aillaud
Technical specifications
Height : (Tours Nuage 1 & 2) 105 m
Floors : (Tours Nuage 1 & 2) 39, (Towers 3 - 10) 20, (Towers 11 - 18) 13
Building material : Concrete, steel, glass

Tours Aillaud (French, German Aillaud towers), also called Tours Nuages (French, German cloud towers), is the name of an ensemble of a total of 18 high-rise buildings that were built in 1977 in the Paris suburb of Nanterre according to plans by the French architect Émile Aillaud have been erected. The two largest buildings are 105 meters high. All 18 buildings are designed on the same floor plan . In total, they offer living space for 1607 tenants.

Originally intended as pioneering and exemplary architecture for housing estates in the suburbs of large cities, the residential district has developed into a social hotspot since the early 1980s.

The residential towers are with the metro station La Defense and the La Defense station to the public transport in the Paris bound.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '22.2 "  N , 2 ° 13' 38.6"  E