Tour Super-Italie

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Tour Super-Italie

Location	Paris 13th arr.
Construction	1970-1974
Use	Residential
Height
Total	112 m (367 ft)
Roof	112 m (367 ft)
Technical Details
Floors	38
Floor space	— m² ( ft²)
Architect	Maurice Novarina.

The tour Super-Italie is a residential skyscraper in the 13th arr. of Paris, France. Its exact address is 121-127, avenue d'Italie.

Inaugurated in February 1974, with a total height of 112 meters, Super-Italie is the tallest tower of the wide operation of urbanism, known as Italie 13, which consisted in building residential towers in Paris' 13th arrondissement. A second tower of identical shape was planned to be built in the same block. However, the stopping of Italie 13 ordered during the mandate of the French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has lead to the cancellation of the project.

Also known in the neighbourhood under the nickname of the round tower, the tower distinguishes from the other towers of the arrondissement by its cylindrical shape while others are parallepipeds. Its total weight is of 44,000 tons, which represents about 4.5 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower.