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Coordinates: 48°53′32″N 2°14′48″E / 48.89222°N 2.24667°E

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Tour Eqho
Tour Eqho

General information
Type	Office
Location	La Défense (Courbevoie)
Coordinates	48°53′32″N 2°14′48″E / 48.89222°N 2.24667°E / 48.89222; 2.24667
Completed	1988
Height
Antenna spire	130 m (430 ft)
Roof	130 m (430 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	40
Floor area	100,000 m² (1,100,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Jean Willerval, Fernando Urquijo, Giorgio Macola

Tour Eqho (also known as Tour IBM, and Tour Descartes^[1]) is an office skyscraper located in La Défense business district situated west of Paris, France.

Built in 1988, the tower, with a height of 130 metres, belongs to the third generation of towers in La Défense.^[2] The tower takes the shape of a parallelepiped in which a semi-cylinder would have been extruded on the main façade. Tour Descartes used to host the French headquarters of IBM Corporation until 2010.^[3] It now hosts a variety of companies with KPMG taking the most floors.^[4]

Bloomberg News reported that the building is nicknamed “the urinal” by real estate brokers because of its distinctive shape.^[5]

References

^ KPMG a pris ses marques dans la tour Eqho
^ Tour Eqho
^ EQHO : encore une tour métamorphosée à la Défense.
^ La Défense : le cabinet d'audit KPMG a choisi une ambiance zen
^ Sidders, Jack (27 July 2023). "Property Pain From Canary Wharf to Mainhattan Has Only Just Begun". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 28 July 2023.

External links

Tour Eqho

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.

Courbevoie

Areas

Primary and secondary schools

Landmarks

Planned	Tour Generali (cancelled) Hermitage Plaza Phare Tower

Paris Métro stations

Esplanade de La Défense

Transilien stations

This list is incomplete.

IBM

History

Products

Hardware

Current	Mainframe IBM Z Power microprocessors Power Systems Storage FlashSystem DS8000 Quantum Q System One Q System Two Eagle Osprey Heron Condor
Former	Blue Gene Cell microprocessors PowerPC Midrange computer Personal Computer Selectric ThinkPad

Other

Business
entities

Current	Apptio Center for The Business of Government Consulting Promontory Kenexa International subsidiaries India Press Red Hat Research
Former	AdStar AIM alliance Kaleida Labs Taligent Ambra Computer Cognos EduQuest Kyndryl Lexmark Merative Microelectronics Product Center Science Research Associates Service Bureau The Weather Company (Weather Underground)