I'm sure you're all very impatient about how CBX is doing here in Paris, so here it goes, Tour CBX a couple of nights ago:
http://mapage.noos.fr/razorbladekiss/MISC/IMG_7324B.jpg
©PornStar
But the tower still has a long way to go until it reaches its 150m :doh:

Also the construction of Tour Exaltis started recently:
http://www.ifrance.com/paris-expo/divers/exaltis1.jpg

And Tour T1 should start before the end of the year :) Yay!
http://membres.lycos.fr/adrienteurlais/accuei2.jpg

Excellent pic.
What's the height of Tour T1 going to be?

@wjfox2002:
well it should be around 190m, but I guess we're gonna know the very exact height only when the construction starts :dunno:

looks as though la defense is a bit of a dark horse.

london talks about all these lovely projects but it is paris that is actually building them!

looks as though la defense is a bit of a dark horse.

london talks about all these lovely projects but it is paris that is actually building them!

On the average, French are pessimistic and doesn't talk much about a tower only in projet whereas Brits are optimistic and talk about a tower even if it's not 100% sure that it will be built.

I didn't know T1 has 2 buildings ?

Some great pictures, by JP.

It looks great :)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=2142512&postcount=633

CBX taken yesterday by me of corz:
http://mapage.noos.fr/razorbladekiss/MISC/IMG_8064.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/razorbladekiss/MISC/IMG_8066.jpg

And here's a pic of Tour Exaltis - the construction of it started a short while ago:
http://mapage.noos.fr/razorbladekiss/MISC/IMG_8010.jpg

Great pictures pornstar. these colors are surreal.

great tower. really appears taller than it it already.

http://62.210.160.29/ImgAlbums3/Images1/40904/beguHBWWB2D30092004194700814731.jpg
cbx tower updated-25 september 2004-webshots.com

Wow, great pictures!!! :eek:

It must be a tough logistical challenge to build in a tight spot like that!!

@yvanh: that's a neat image you've got, but could you PLEEEEZ reduce the size of it to smth like 900x700, otherwise my brain will explode, thus there'll be alot of cleaning up to do! :bash:

EDIT: Thanx Alot! :) It looks very nice

Nice pix !

thanks kony ! your pic, pornstar, taking of la defense from T1 area is awesome !

Who has some renderings of T1 for me ?

nice to see some LD developments over here
http://www.pcinpact.com/images/smiles/francais2.gif

Great pics Porn Star. What to say about Paris? Paris is the best what Europe have.

Wow ........ PornStar those are fantastic pics. Hopefully you'll keep us all up to date with this beauty! :)

Thanx you guys about the pix, and I'll sure try to take more soon.

@De Snor: here's a couple of more recent T1 for you:
http://www.lucia-olipar.com/images/T1_PC_49_VUE_FACE.jpg

http://www.olipar-lucia.com/images/T1.jpg
http://www.olipar-lucia.com/
According to the developer, at the moment the whole T1 complex is one of the most important projects in Paris/Region, with more than 100,000sqm of office space. The complex will contain several buildings, parks, shops and so much more, but the main accent of course will be the main T1 tower. You can see how big/important the project is in this plan:
http://www.olipar-lucia.com/images/photo_quartier.jpg
http://www.olipar-lucia.com/
The construction according to the developer and also some of our spies in the French forum is about to start very shortly, there is also quite some activity on the site already... :cheers:

Here's also a couple of visuals of Tour CBX, found by ERIC from the French Forums:

The CBX doen't look that tall in this one, even though it's got ~150m
http://patrickdaniels.tripod.com/GALLERY1.JPG

Here you can see how massive the building actually is, that's why sometimes it doesn't look that tall. This is the CBX at the street level, all in somewhat metal high-tech style
http://patrickdaniels.tripod.com/GALLERY2.JPG

:eek:
surreal pictures! :applause:
the tower is looking better than I thought, the facade especially is much better than on the renderings

Beautiful building, I love the facade ! (I saw close-ups on the french forum.)


Here you can see how massive the building actually is, that's why sometimes it doesn't look that tall. This is the CBX at the street level, all in somewhat metal high-tech style

This building is not massive or it's relative . With the same height there is in Brussels a tower around 200.000 sq meters and another under construction around 100.000 sq meters. But CBX is around 44.000 sq meters.

The curvade facade looks good.

This building is not massive or it's relative . With the same height there is in Brussels a tower around 200.000 sq meters and another under construction around 100.000 sq meters. But CBX is around 44.000 sq meters.
Well it doesn't have that big office space simply because it isn't just another ugly boxy building! As simple as that. :)

Well it doesn't have that big office space simply because it isn't just another ugly boxy building! As simple as that. :)

The dexia tower is not a boxy building :yes:

no news

yes ! no updated pictures since 21 days
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

So here's the long awaited update. Today right after my only Friday lecture I went straight to La Défense - it was still ze morning. The tower made not a bad jump since the last time! :)
http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC/IMG_8198.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC/IMG_8181.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC/IMG_8182.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC/IMG_8228.jpg
:)

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What a fantastic building it has become :eek:

>> I would like to see a list of all buildings at La Défense when they were built from the Esso building until today ?

So, if I am correct, the topping-out of the T1 will signify a breaking of the height record for La Defence, which now if I remember correctly stands slightly above 180 (is it 185m? I don't rememmber) with the tours Framatome (I mean the ex-FIAT tower) and ELF. THAT's a remarcable addition. Can you imagine what it would be to even surpass the Tour Montparnasse? Is this likely?

Anyway, I see some mobility in LD and this is good. However, Paris still needs to make a strong statement (above 250m). We all know, especially the... older ones (that's for me and the moustache man :):):), Stephan where r u hidin'? ) what good old LD stands for, but time passes quickly, especially now that London is coming up THAT strong.

T1 will be 185, just below Total (187m) but Ahead of Areva (184m). Granite will be 183, ahead of Gan (179...). So there won't even be 10 meters between the 5 tallests buildings.

LD currently hosts 3,4 millions m² of office space,and built Egee, Adria, EDF, or Coeur Defense in the last 5 years (all 150m+), and now CBX, and soon Granite and T1. I know this is not CW growth, but well, still not too bad.
The current problem as you say is height, LD would just need at least 1 taller tower to
look much better as a cluster.

Except that, this is the design for the twin towers project in Levallois (planned for 2008) :

http://ladefense.free.fr/levallois/titre.jpg

The Levallois look fine, remotely reminding me of the Toronto city hall building. Nice touch. Well, we've been so many times in this discussion between LD and CW that I don't need to say anything more here. LD will be for some time the most elegant and mature cluster in Europe. The point is that the future looks a bit blurry after the years 2007 - 2010 let's say. Anyway, I wish we had in Athens the 1/4 of the towers you got there BUT in absolute terms, when you rest on your laurels and you've got hungry followers (because what LD did is that it legalised the right of the historic cities to have a modern suburb outside them where the constructions would be seen as "heretic" at least), things change. I mean From Madrid to Istanbul, I see a new era of tall towers emerging and also think about cities like Bratislava or Talinn that come into play. Think about Vienna for instance. The tops on this list (and excluding London which is, after all, London) may be a real threat after 2010, not counting the other giant called Moscow...



Also, perhaps you Frenchies should tell the rest of the Euroscraper natchos here about the lowrise, yet FANTASTIC developments in La Villette. I mean, 300m towers are not the only objects of fully deserving admioration in your country, albeit still quite impresssive.

LD future is always blurry actually, we never know about projects a long time before they start, but the good side is that since a few years, they almost always actually start and no major project were cancelled in LD since the Tour sans fins, modified at most.

As for other cities catching up, that's only fair, they started late, LD oldest towers are almost 40 years old now (Initiale was built in 1966). LD also built like crazy in the past, look, between 74 and 75 , we got Areva (Fiat back then) , Gan, AXA (UAP then) , Ariane, Defense 2000, and Manhattan.

Actually, I think the current building situation is the best we had in LD since 1975 : several 150m+ towers recently built, plus 2 more in project, getting denser with several low or mid rise....

The CBX Tower will be like this when completed, perhaps a bit darker.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/CBX.jpg

@ ERIC , what is going to happen with that awful construction on the right side of your picture ?

It will be completely transformed, with elegant glass façades.

Edit

A couple of new CBX:
http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC2/1/IMG_8676.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC2/1/IMG_8690.jpg

CBX and Exaltis towers u/c. CBX is on the right.
http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC2/1/IMG_8779.jpg

crazy how they manage to build such a building in such a tight spot. :eek:

thqat first picture is awesome!!!:eek2:

:eek2:

New pictures taken in december on www.emporis.com


http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx01.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx02.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx03.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx04.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx05.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx06.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/autresmondes2/img/chantiercbx07.jpg

Merci ERIC for the pix again! :cheers:

:applause:
What a georgous building :eek:

It's so...beautiful :cry:

Here's my last update of CBX this year taken some days ago. Unfortunately because of the angle you cannot see what's really goin on there with all the inclined top part being built at the moment, but the structure's getting finished anyway so you will see the amazing glassy results pretty soon I think :)
http://mapage.noos.fr/Linasfich/Misc/IMG_9216A.jpg
So that's it, tomorrow early morning my winter break takes off from CDG, so Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël and a Happy New Year to all of you! See you next year! :cheers:

OMG !!!!!!!!
Happy new Year PornStar ;)

Beautiful building! I love it! :)

Why is this topic a sticky?Something special this building?

wow! beautiful building in a dense area!!!!

it looks like the 143m hoftoren in the hague...
http://patrickdaniels.tripod.com/GALLERY1.JPG
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.01/1871.jpg
http://www.ingrealestate.com/images/23_21444.jpg

from one side this tower looks even broad as the tour CBX
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/507/4201-Hoftoren.jpg

Nice tower.
And I like La Defence. Very dense.

The latest photos (January) by Emporis

http://www.berberber.com/city-up/photos/cbx/a.jpg

http://www.berberber.com/city-up/photos/cbx/b.jpg

http://www.berberber.com/city-up/photos/cbx/c.jpg

http://www.berberber.com/city-up/photos/cbx/d.jpg

http://www.berberber.com/city-up/photos/cbx/e.jpg

its a great building. Is it by KPF? It is a sort of funkified West India Quay. Do alot of people live in La Defense or is it something of a City of London type area. I guess what Im getting at is aksing whether there is any life, culture etc there?

about 20 000 people lives in La Défense and there some museums and shopping malls

so its definitely not dead then. I think i remember there being an Imax too if im not mistaken. Hopefully Canary Wharf will get museums and more housing soon too to make it a destination for more than just office workers. I see you hail from Metz... what do you think of the new Pompidou and does the public support it there?

There is no museums in la défense ! except an open-air museum of 60 modern scultpures

um, so are there or not? I think that urban art is good, but not enough to keep a place lively in terms of being a destination.

except the one i mentionned there is no museum in la defense....but the authority of la defense area has said recently that they will do whatever necesary to develop the leisures in this district...to make it more lively at night and on the week-ends.

the imax is still there (at least the structure) but will be coverted in a giant movie & leisure complex next year.

god, yeah... imagine going out clubbing amongst all those towers, that would just be wicked.

wicked wicked !! (are u from jamaica ?) :)

there's a museum in the roof of La Grande Arche :bleh:

@ nukey

the construction of the pompidou center has not yet begun so people here are not very aware of this project, but i love the design and it's going to be a great museum for sure

How do you know Metz ?

CBX on Friday:
http://mapage.noos.fr/Linasfich/Misc/IMG_9549A.jpg

oh..only one pic?
i want more :D

great tower

This afternoon, the white sloping and curved roof of the 142-m-high CBX tower shined a few minutes with sunlight. The building is almost completed. This bad-quality picture comes from a webcam.

http://img222.exs.cx/img222/1214/cbxskyline28xs.jpg

The latest pictures by Emporis


http://img218.exs.cx/img218/4402/cbxtoitblanc3is.jpg

http://img232.exs.cx/img232/7909/cbx011xs.jpg

La Défense est La Défense
The best skyline in Europe, far away from the rest.

more pix de moi:
http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0345.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0338.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0333.jpg

http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0332.jpg

CBX tower from a remote place (Mont Valerien) on February 19th:

Friday noon:
http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0676.jpg

at the base
http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0674.jpg

CBX and its crane can bee seen in the bottom left part of the pic
http://mapage.noos.fr/GTC/Misc2/IMG_0649.jpg

CBX as it is in the skyline as of February 28th:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cyril.poisson/ret_scc/12.jpg
The yellow crane helps to locate it ;)

is there a height limit?

^looks like there is, doesn't it
well nope, that's the sad part :(

Why is this thread sticky? If no one has any problem with it, I'll unstick it.

wicked wicked !! (are u from jamaica ?)
I had no idea they said that in Jamaica. In London lots of people say it... I grew up saying it. Even bloody Harry Potter says it!

the construction of the pompidou center has not yet begun so people here are not very aware of this project, but i love the design and it's going to be a great museum for sure
How do you know Metz ?
I was at Arup for a year last year and was working with the guy who did the parametric modeling for the roof structure, so I saw it developing. Its going to be a boon for the city...

25 March 2005 - at the base
http://mapage.noos.fr/PLD1/PLD/CRW_1286.jpg

I took this one this morning while driving:

very nice

nice finish.
btw Cyril, 'while driving'? Hope there weren't any cops around :D

Thank you Cyril for this nice picture. The one below shows the tower in june, almost completed (photo by Emporis).

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2005/06/369729.jpg

Nice Skyscraper. How about resuscitating the plans for the "Tour Sans Fins"? La Defence definitely needs something REALLY TALL now.

Again, nice building... :)