Tour Granite
Tour Granite is an office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district situated west of Paris, France. Tour Granite was opened in December 2008.Photo: Oliver H, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: skyscraper in La Défense, France
- Roof shape: skillion
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grande Arche and Tours Société Générale.
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 470 metres east of Tour Granite.
Tours Société Générale
Office building
Société Générale Twin Towers are two office skyscrapers located in La Défense, a high-rise business district, and in Nanterre, France, west of Paris. Their exterior designs are identical.
New cemetery of Puteaux
Cemetery
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
New cemetery of Puteaux is situated 170 metres north of Tour Granite.
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.
Nanterre
Town
Photo: Benjism89, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nanterre is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located some 11 km northwest of the centre of Paris.
Tour Granite
- Categories: skyscraper and office building
- Location: Puteaux, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.89172° or 48° 53′ 30″ northLongitude
2.22953° or 2° 13′ 46″ eastLevels
35Height
184 metres (604 feet)Open location code
8FW4V6RH+MROpenStreetMap ID
way 19451629OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=skillionWikidata ID
Q666483
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Tour Granite” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tour Granite”
- Czech: “Tour Granite”
- Estonian: “Tour Granite”
- French: “Tour Granite”
- German: “Tour Granite”
- Hungarian: “Tour Granite”
- Indonesian: “Tour Granite”
- Italian: “Tour Granite”
- Persian: “تور گرانیت”
- Polish: “Tour Granite”
- Slovak: “Tour Granite”
- Spanish: “Tour Granite”
- Swedish: “Tour Granite”
- “Tour Granite”
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