Tours Société Générale

Coordinates: 48°53′31″N 2°13′50″E / 48.89194°N 2.23056°E

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Tours Société Générale
(Alicante and Chassagne)
Société Générale twin towers

General information
Type	Office
Location	La Défense (Nanterre)
Coordinates	48°53′31″N 2°13′50″E / 48.89194°N 2.23056°E / 48.89194; 2.23056
Completed	1995
Height
Antenna spire	167 m (548 ft)
Roof	167 m (548 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	37
Floor area	125,000 m² (1,350,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Michel Andrault, Pierre Parat, Nicolas Ayoub

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. They are the second tallest twin towers in the EU and Europe’s third tallest twin towers after City of Capitals in Moscow and Les Mercuriales twin towers in Paris.

The towers were built and opened in 1995 to become the head office of the Société Générale, one of France's largest banking groups.^[1] Before the twin towers were constructed, Société Générale's headquarters were located in Paris.^[2]

Features

The roof and structural height of both towers is at 167 m (548 ft) above ground. The roofs of the towers are sharply inclined.

The towers were the tallest skyscrapers built in La Défense since the Tour Total in 1985. It was one of the first buildings in France to receive the High Quality Environmental standard label.

The northern tower is named tour Alicante and the southern one tour Chassagne. In its interior design, Chassagne is decorated with white stone from the village of Chassagne in Auvergne, whereas Alicante is decorated with red marble from Alicante in Spain. Both towers share the same platform and stand about 40 m (130 ft) apart.

Despite the large office space available in the current twin towers, Société Générale needed yet more space and so it launched the construction of a third skyscraper, the 183 m (600 ft) tall Tour Granite, which stands immediately behind the twin towers and was opened in 2008.

References

^ "Société Générale : deux tours à la Défense." Le Journal du Net. Retrieved on 7 July 2010.
^ Iskandar, Samer. "The lower you go the higher you become." Financial News Online. 26 April 2004. Retrieved on 24 September 2009.

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Tours Société Générale^[usurped] (Emporis)

La Défense

Skyscrapers
and complexes

Tour Adria
Tours Aillaud
Tour Areva
Tour Ariane
Tour Athéna
Tour Atlantique
Tour Aurore
Tour Carpe Diem
Tour CB21
Tour CBX
Tour Cèdre [fr]
Tour Blanche
Tour D2
Cœur Défense
Tour Défense 2000
Tour EDF
Tour Égée
Tour Eqho
Tour Europe [fr]
Tour Europlaza
Tour Ève
Tour First
Tour France
Tour Franklin
Tour Gambetta [fr]
Tour Prisma
Grande Arche
Tour Granite
Tour Initiale
Tour Les Poissons
Tour Majunga
Tour Manhattan
Tour Neptune
Opus 12 Tower
Tour Pascal
Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine
Tour Sequoia
Tours Société Générale (Alicante and Chassagne)
Tour T1
Tour Total
Esso Tower (demolished)
Tour W

Planned	Tour Generali (cancelled) Hermitage Plaza Phare Tower Tour Signal (cancelled)

Other landmarks

Paris Métro stations

This list is incomplete.

v t e Nanterre
Areas	La Défense Quartier du Mont-Valérien (FR) Quartier du Parc Nord (FR)
Primary and secondary schools	Lycée Joliot-Curie de Nanterre Lycée professionnel Louise-Michel Lycée professionnel Paul-Langevin Lycée professionnel Claude-Chappe
Colleges and universities	Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
Landmarks	L'archipel Tours Aillaud Tour Granite Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine Tours Société Générale Nanterre Cathedral Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez Paris La Défense Arena Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers Centre d'accueil et de soins hospitaliers de Nanterre (FR) Maison René Ginouvès d'archéologie et d'ethnologie (FR) Place de la Boule (FR) Pont ferroviaire des Anglais (FR)
Paris RER stations	Nanterre–La Folie Nanterre-Préfecture Nanterre-Université Nanterre-Ville
Culture	Nanterre 92 Racing 92
This list is incomplete.

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