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Phare Tower

The Phare Tower, in English, "Beacon Tower", was a planned approx. 300-metre (984 ft) tall skyscraper with 71 floors designed as a green building to be built in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), France, in the La Défense district of suburban Paris. The building was being designed by Los Angeles-based Morphosis, headed by architect Thom Mayne, and would have been completed in 2018. Had it been built, it would have been th…

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Puteaux, Puteaux, France

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tower Architecture

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Thom Mayne

Born 1944 · Los Angeles, California, United States

Role: lead architect

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Thom Mayne is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities postgraduate program. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Po…

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Morphosis

collective · Los Angeles, California, United States

Role: designer

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