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La Defense Paris' Business Centre
La Défense is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. With a population of 20,000, it is centered in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux. The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris's 10 km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense. La Défense is seen as comparable to Canary Wharf in London: both are spaces where "statements of corporate ambition can be made", without thereby encroaching on the historical quarters of the city. Around its 110-metre (360 ft)-high Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), the district holds many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. With its 77.5 acres (314,000 m2), its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 180,000 daily workers and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space. La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district.
LA DEFENSE HERMITAGE PLAZA TALLEST MIXED-USED TOWER IN WESTERN EUROPE
The Hermitage Plaza project of two skyscrapers in the La Défense business district outside Paris. Is scheduled to start by 2012 and to be completed by 2016. The Hermitage SAS claims to have secured the financing. The project was revealed by Norman Foster, on March 11, 2009 at the MIPIM (architecture's congress) which took place in Cannes, France. The skyscrapers have been revealed - the tallest is to be 320 m (1,050 ft) high with 93 floors. Hermitage Plaza after completion in 2016 will become the tallest building in the European Union.
Photo taken on February 13, 2013 shows the Societe Generale headquarters in Paris' financial district of La Defense. The French bank has reported that its first-quarter net profit fell by half to 364 million ...
PARIS (AP) — An Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum's glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument's history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors, faces due west onto France's business district, La Defense.
When a man in work clothes showed up at her door, the Monitor's Europe bureau chief let him inside. But fortunately, he didn't get a chance to pull off a well-known Parisian scam.
The Courtyard by Marriott Paris Boulogne welcomes the arrival of warmer weather and sunset cocktail hours with the opening of its new panoramic rooftop bar, 114 Up on the Roof.
Eurozone recession is now longest in currency bloc Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:49 pm, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Overall, the eurozone's economy contracted for the sixth straight quarter, shrinking by 0.2 percent in the January-March period from the previous three months ...
Eurozone recession extends into 6th quarter Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:42 pm, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Overall, the eurozone's economy contracted for the sixth straight quarter, slumping by 0.2 percent in the January-March period from the previous three months ...
The Vicat Group (Paris:VCT) (NYSE Euronext Paris: FR0000031775 – VCT) today reported its sales for the three months ended March 31, 2013, which amounted to €491 million, a rise of 1.2% (2.7%, at constant scope and exchange rates).
It’s amazing, really, the difference two days can make. On April 22 it looked as though the Champions League semifinals might produce a Clasico for the Wembley centrepiece, that this Saturday’s Final in London would be a transplanted version of one of world football’s most contentious rivalries. Spain, after all, was widely held as the capital of the club game—a country where Barcelona and Real ...