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2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

Tour Granite image

Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Tour Granite

Nanterre, Nanterre, France · Exact work coordinates

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Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Comparison

Field	Tour Granite 2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Robert Maillart 1901 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1901
Place	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Place context	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Representative site: Schiers, Schiers, Switzerland
Climate	10°C · 14.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind	7°C · 13.9h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via Salginatobel Bridge
Focus	Office building	2 works in corpus
Architects	Christian de Portzamparc	Robert Maillart
Linked context	Bureaus Christian de Portzamparc	Notable works Salginatobel Bridge Schwandbach Bridge
Typologies	office	infrastructure
Materials	stone	concrete
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.