Tour Initiale

Tour Initiale is an office building located in business district just west of , . The 105 m Tour Initiale was the first office tower built in the La Défense district with its construction being completed in 1966.
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Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Office building
  • Description: office building located in La Défense business district just west of Paris
  • Also known as: “PB 31”, “Tour Nobel”, and “Tour Roussel-Hoechst”
  • Roof shape: flat

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Esplanade de La Défense station and Pont de Neuilly.

Metro station
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Esplanade de La Défense is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of on the border of and . 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. is situated 150 metres northwest of Tour Initiale.

Bridge
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The is a road and rail bridge carrying the Route nationale 13 and Paris Métro Line 1 which crosses the between the right bank of and and on the left bank in the department of . is situated 230 metres east of Tour Initiale.

Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La de la Défense, originally called La de la Fraternité, is a and building in the business district of and in the commune of , to the west of , France. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Tour Initiale.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Défense and Courbevoie.

Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of , beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.

Town
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is a commune located in the department of the region of France. It is a suburb of , 8.2 km from the .

Town
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is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the department, 8.7 kilometres from the . , Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, extends over the northern part of and parts of the neighbouring communes and .

Tour Initiale

Latitude
48.88708° or 48° 53′ 14″ north
Longitude
2.25149° or 2° 15′ 5″ east
Inception
1966
Levels
1
Open location code
8FW4V7P2+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 79864257
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­office
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­flat
Wiki­data ID
Q3090101
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Turkish—“Tour Initiale” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tour Initiale”
  • Czech: “Tour Initial”
  • Czech: “Tour Initiale”
  • Czech: “Tour Nobel”
  • Dutch: “Tour Initiale”
  • Estonian: “Tour Initiale”
  • French: “Tour Initiale”
  • French: “Tour Nobel”
  • German: “Tour Initiale”
  • Hebrew: “Tour Initiale”
  • Hungarian: “Tour Initiale”
  • Indonesian: “Tour Initiale”
  • Italian: “Torre Initiale”
  • Italian: “Torre Nobel”
  • Italian: “Tour Initiale”
  • Persian: “تور انیشل”
  • Polish: “Tour Initiale”
  • Portuguese: “Tour Initiale”
  • Slovak: “Tour Initiale”
  • Spanish: “Tour Initiale”
  • Turkish: “Tour Initiale”

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