Tour Montparnasse
Tour Montparnasse rises 210 metres in Paris’s Montparnasse district, directly above Montparnasse–Bienvenüe Métro station. Its fifty-nine floors make it Paris’s tallest building within the city proper. Construction ran from 1969 to 1973, during a wider redevelopment project in Montparnasse. Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan, and Louis Hoym de Marien designed the tower.
The fifty-sixth floor holds Paris Montparnasse, an observation deck with views across a forty-kilometre radius. A rooftop terrace and the Ciel de Paris restaurant extend the outlook above the city. Office space occupies most of the building, while political campaign offices and events have also used it. Wheelchair access makes the tower available to visitors with mobility needs.
The tower was France’s tallest building until 2011, and its height attracted strong criticism. That debate contributed to a ban on buildings above seven storeys in central Paris, lifted in 2015. Fifty-six reinforced-concrete pillars descend seventy metres underground beneath the tower.
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