Tour Ariane
Tour Ariane; previously known as tour Générale between 1973 and 1995, is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district situated west of Paris, France.- Type: Building
- Description: office skyscraper located in La Défense
- Also known as: “Tour Générale”
- Address: 5 Place de la Pyramide, Puteaux, 92800
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grande Arche and Tour Majunga.
Grande Arche
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. Grande Arche is situated 680 metres northwest of Tour Ariane.
Tour Majunga
Office building
The Tour Majunga is an office skyscraper located in La Défense district of Paris, France. Built between 2011 and 2014, the tower stands at 194 m tall with 47 floors and is the current sixth tallest building in France after Tour First, Tour Montparnasse and Tour Incity when it was completed.
ESSEC
School
Photo: Rdavout, CC BY-SA 2.5.
ESSEC Business School is a French business school and Grande école. Its main campus is located in Cergy, with additional campuses in Paris, Rabat, and Singapore. ESSEC is situated 530 metres northwest of Tour Ariane.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Défense and Puteaux.
La Défense
Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Défense is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.
Puteaux
Town
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 8.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris. La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, extends over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre.
Courbevoie
Town
Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is a suburb of Paris, 8.2 km from the center of Paris.
Tour Ariane
- Categories: skyscraper and office building
- Location: Puteaux, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.88933° or 48° 53′ 22″ northLongitude
2.24369° or 2° 14′ 37″ eastLevels
41Height
152 metres (499 feet)Open location code
8FW4V6QV+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 19450182OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerWikidata ID
Q3090076
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Tour Ariane” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tour Ariane”
- Croatian: “Ariane (neboder)”
- Croatian: “Ariane”
- Czech: “Tour Ariane”
- Dutch: “Tour Ariane”
- Estonian: “Tour Ariane”
- Finnish: “Tour Ariane”
- French: “Tour Ariane”
- French: “Tour Générale”
- German: “Tour Ariane”
- Hebrew: “Tour Ariane”
- Hungarian: “Tour Ariane”
- Indonesian: “Menara Ariane”
- Indonesian: “Tour Ariane”
- Italian: “Tour Ariane”
- Persian: “تور آریان”
- Persian: “تور اریان”
- Polish: “Tour Ariane”
- Portuguese: “Tour Ariane”
- Romanian: “Tour Ariane”
- Russian: “Tour Ariane”
- Slovak: “Tour Ariane”
- Spanish: “Tour Ariane”
- Swedish: “Tour Ariane”
- Turkish: “Tour Ariane”
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