Tour Signal | |
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General information | |
Status | Never built |
Type | Hotel, office and residential |
Location | La Défense (Puteaux, France) |
Construction started | 2008 |
Completed | 2014 |
Opening | 2014 |
Height | |
Antenna spire | 301 m (988 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 71 |
Floor area | 140,000 m2 (1,500,000 sq ft) |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Jean Nouvel |
Developer | Medea and Layetana |
Structural engineer | Desarollos Immobiliarios |
Tour Signal was a proposed skyscraper in La Défense and in Puteaux, France.[1]
Medea and Layetana were the developers with Ateliers Jean Nouvel as architects.
West Gate was chosen as the location for the building in order to open the La Défense district to the municipality of Puteaux. The project’s ambition was to create a stronger polarity at the heart of the Île-de-France and develop a major attraction while relating the project to its natural and built environment and, lastly, embodying the various elements which strengthen the feeling that the project belongs in the district.
This project has been cancelled. In 2009, Medea and Layetana announced they are not involved in the project anymore, and the new president of the EPAD Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud declared her opposition to the tower which looks like an unaesthetic "monolith".
This tower will symbolize and represent the rebirth of the business district of Paris - La Défense. It's the first building designed by Jean Nouvel which will be built in the district.