Nice photos !
CBX looks like the big fat bitch behind Europe.
I'm glad it doesn't have a flat roof.

More info about the T1 construction site:

http://www.t1-defense.com

from an unusual angle

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8...4735a1280x.jpg

I've never thought of this before, I've always thought it was a monument.. Is Le Grande Arche an office building?

it is one office building with an exhibition floor on top :)

It contains a public administration (ministère de l'aménagement) as well as officies and a big conference room under the roof.

Comme qu'on dit en bon Québecois: TABARNAC!!!;)

Incroyable toutes ces nouvelles tours! avez plus de détails sur ces nouvelles constructions?

nice rendering from the completed tower in a few years:

http://www.t1-defense.com/v6.jpg

T1 a few days ago , pictures from "eric"

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2491/t124dut6.jpg

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5739/t124fzs8.jpg

La Defence really deserves theese... :)

the defense and the 2nd European district of business after Frankfurt its truths?

I guess London is the biggest business centre in Europe :dunno:

Ridiculous. They have just mimiced 30Ste Mary Axe and the Freedom Tower in this rendering.

Well, what can we do about it? Legend says that Ivan the Terrible ordered the eyes of the Basil's Cathedral architects poked so that they would never be able to create anything that rivals it. These days there are few if any restrictions on copycat designs...

The biggest business districts in europe are the Opera district in Paris and the City of London; both around 7 million square meters.

La Défense is the biggest district of that kind in europe, with about 3 to 3.5 million square meters.

Oh, btw that (fake and inaccurate) rendering from the newspaper doesn't mimice 30 st mary axe, but T1 tower. :rolleyes:
Tho there's a freedom tower and a mini-burj dubai, but they're just there to represent what the district could look like in a few years. This is nothing official anyway, in case some people didn't get it...

fortunately
I will not like La Defense with those building.
the mini-burj is in reality the renovation of the Tour Assur or Tour Axa (225 m ).

Construction of T1 tower

cladding is arrived

http://perso.orange.fr/p2r92/Media/T1_04.09.2006.jpg
http://www.t1-defense.com/t1-29h.jpg
http://www.t1-defense.com/bat-c2-30a.jpg
http://www.t1-defense.com/t1-29c.jpg
http://www.t1-defense.com/t1-29j.jpg

Official Rendering of the T1 tower

http://www.t1-defense.com/accueil.gif

T1 tower is very nice, it adds a lot to the surroundings ^

Here is another rendering on the renovated Tour AXA:

http://www.cogedim-entreprise.com/im.../TOUR-CB31.jpg


And here is a diagram of the tower I've created for SSP:

http://mapage.noos.fr/marla13/diagra..._pss_small.gif
larger version

Unfortunately, I can't upload it yet to the SSP database. Apparently, diagrams of renovated towers can't be uploaded before the renovation has started. :(