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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	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1919
Place	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	15°C · 14.0h daylight · 14 km/h wind	6°C · 14.2h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Office building	9 works in corpus
Architects	Christian de Portzamparc	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Christian de Portzamparc	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	office	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	stone	glass
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.