Tour 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.
See also
References
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- Tour Areva[usurped] (Emporis)
- Expatriates Magazine A Printed publication distributed in Tour Areva for international employees
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and complexes
- Tour Adria
- Tours Aillaud
- Tour Areva
- Tour Ariane
- Tour Athéna
- Tour Atlantique
- Tour Aurore
- Tour Carpe Diem
- Tour CB21
- Tour CBX
- Tour Cèdre [fr]
- Tour Blanche
- Tour D2
- Cœur Défense
- Tour Défense 2000
- Tour EDF
- Tour Égée
- Tour Eqho
- Tour Europe [fr]
- Tour Europlaza
- Tour Ève
- Tour First
- Tour France
- Tour Franklin
- Tour Gambetta [fr]
- Tour Prisma
- Grande Arche
- Tour Granite
- Tour Initiale
- Tour Les Poissons
- Tour Majunga
- Tour Manhattan
- Tour Neptune
- Opus 12 Tower
- Tour Pascal
- Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine
- Tour Sequoia
- Tours Société Générale (Alicante and Chassagne)
- Tour T1
- Tour Total
- Esso Tower (demolished)
- Tour W
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- Esplanade de La Défense
- La Défense – Grande Arche (Gare de La Défense)