Tour Aurore
Tour Aurore is a 133-metre, 27-story office building in the La Défense central business district outside of Paris. Empty since the 1990s, its destruction was announced a decade later, but its new owner since 2018 decided to keep and upgrade the building.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grande Arche and Tour D2.
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 1 km west of Tour Aurore.
Tour D2
Building
The Tour D2 is a 171-metre tall skyscraper in the La Défense business district outside of Paris, France. It is located in the municipality of Courbevoie and is used for office purposes.
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 310 metres southeast of Tour Aurore.
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 Aurore
- Type: Construction
- Description: office skyscraper located in the business district of La Défense
- Categories: skyscraper, office building, and building
- Location: Puteaux, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.89013° or 48° 53′ 24″ northLongitude
2.24734° or 2° 14′ 50″ eastHeight
110 metres (361 feet)Open location code
8FW4V6RW+3WOpenStreetMap ID
way 82467065OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=constructionWikidata ID
Q2016004
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Tour Aurore” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tour Aurore”
- Dutch: “Tour Aurore”
- Estonian: “Tour Aurore”
- French: “Tour Aurore”
- German: “Tour Aurore”
- Hebrew: “Tour Aurore”
- Hungarian: “Tour Aurore”
- Indonesian: “Menara Aurore”
- Indonesian: “Tour Aurore”
- Italian: “Tour Aurore”
- Polish: “Tour Aurore”
- Spanish: “Tour Aurore”
- Turkish: “Tour Aurore”
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