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Montparnasse Tower
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skyscraper in Paris
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Within Vinony's link graph, Montparnasse Tower is referenced by 420 other articles, and connects out to Paris, France and Charles de Gaulle.
The entry is geolocated on the map in 75.
It is catalogued under topics including 1972 establishments in France, 20th-century architecture in France and Buildings and structures completed in 1972.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- Commercial offices
- Location
- 33 Avenue du Maine , 15th arrondissement , Paris , France
- Roof
- 210 m (690 ft)
- Floor area
- 88,400 m (952,000 sq ft)
- Architects
- Cabinet Saubot-Jullien, Eugène Élie Beaudouin, Louis-Gabriel de Hoÿm de Marien, Urbain Cassan, A. Epstein and Sons International
- Developer
- Wylie Tuttle
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tourist attraction
- Has part
- commercial area
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Quartier Necker
- Area
- 120000
- Material used
- metal
- Mass
- 130000
- Official website
- www.tourmontparnasse56.com
- Image
- Remote view of the Tour Montparnasse & Eiffel Tower in 2005.jpg
- Height
- 209
- Has use
- office
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- Commons category
- Tour Montparnasse
- floors above ground
- 59
- Commons gallery
- Tour Montparnasse
- name in kana
- モンパルナス・タワー
- number of elevators
- 25
- inception
- 1973-00-00
- date of official opening
- 1973-06-18
- adjacent structure or building
- Montparnasse – Bienvenüe
- postal code
- 75014
- architectural style
- International Style
- floors below ground
- 6
- has facility
- window
- social media followers
- 1325
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Encyclopedic overview
Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre (689 ft) office skyscraper in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre (758 ft) Tour First in the La Défense business district west of Paris's city limits. It remains the tallest building in Paris proper and the fourth tallest in France, behind The Link, Tour First and Tour Hekla. As of February 2026, it is the 59th-tallest building in Europe.
The tower was designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin [fr], Urbain Cassan [fr], and Louis de Hoÿm de Marien [fr] and built by Campenon Bernard. On 21 September 2017, Nouvelle AOM won a competition to redesign the building's façade. The commercial center portion will be redesigned by Renzo Piano.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montparnasse Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.