Tour Descartes

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Tour Descartes
Tour Descartes
Location La Défense
(Courbevoie)
Construction 1988
Use Office
Height
Total 130 m (427 ft)
Roof 130 m (427 ft)
Technical Details
Floors 40
Floor space 100,000 m² ( ft²)
Architect Jean Willerval, Fernando Urquijo, Giorgio Macola

Tour Descartes (also known as tour IBM) 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 meters, belongs to the third generation of towers in La Défense. The tower takes the shape of a parallelepiped in which a semi-cylinder would have been extruded on the main façade.

It hosts the French headquarters of IBM computers corporation.

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