Tour Alto
Tour Alto is an office skyscraper in the Courbevoie commune of the La Défense district in Paris. Built between 2017 and 2020, the tower stands at 160 m tall with 38 floors and is the 21st tallest building in Paris.- Type: Building
- Description: office skyscraper in La Défense’s Courbevoie
- Address: Place des Saisons
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Esplanade de La Défense station and Tour First.
Esplanade de La Défense station
Metro station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Esplanade de La Défense is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of La Défense on the border of Courbevoie and Puteaux. It has an island platform because of limitations on space due it being enclosed in a site originally earmarked for one of the underpasses of the A14 autoroute. Esplanade de La Défense station is situated 170 metres southwest of Tour Alto.
Tour First
Building
Photo: Arthur Weidmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tour First is an office skyscraper in the La Défense business district of the metropolitan area of Paris. Built in 1974, the tower stands at 231 m tall with 52 floors and is the current second tallest building in France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Défense and Courbevoie.
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.
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.
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.
Tour Alto
- Category: skyscraper
- Location: Courbevoie, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.88937° or 48° 53′ 22″ northLongitude
2.25117° or 2° 15′ 4″ eastLevels
37Height
160 metres (525 feet)Open location code
8FW4V7Q2+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 758211634OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerWikidata ID
Q16680551
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Tour Alto” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tour Alto”
- Croatian: “Alto (neboder)”
- Croatian: “Alto”
- Czech: “Tour Alto”
- Dutch: “Tour Alto”
- Estonian: “Tour Alto”
- French: “Tour Alto”
- German: “Tour Alto”
- Hungarian: “Tour Alto”
- Indonesian: “Menara Alto”
- Indonesian: “Tour Alto”
- Italian: “Tour Alto”
- Persian: “تور آلتو”
- Polish: “Tour Alto”
- Portuguese: “Tour Alto”
- Romanian: “Tour Alto”
- Slovak: “Tour Alto”
- Spanish: “Tour Alto”
- Swedish: “Tour Alto”
- Turkish: “Tour Alto”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Place Zaha Hadid and Tour CB21.
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