Type Government offices Renovated 1995 to 1996 Height 148 m, 171 m to tip Opened December 1967 Construction started 1962 | Completed December 1967 Cost BEF1.4 billion Floors 38 Architectural style Modern architecture | |
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Location Avenue P.H. Spaak/EuropaesplanadeBrussels, Belgium Owner Belgian Pensions Administration Similar | ||
Tour du Midi (French) or Zuidertoren (Dutch), both meaning South Tower, is a 38-storey, 148 m (486 ft) skyscraper constructed between 1962 and 1967 in Brussels, Belgium. The tower is the tallest building in Belgium, and was the tallest in the European Economic Community when it was built until it was surpassed by Tour Montparnasse in Paris in 1972. Tour du Midi stands adjacent to the Brussels-South railway station. The building was reclad in 1995-1996 with unitised glass panels using double glass solarbel silver, and it can accommodate about 2,500 office workers. It was built for the Belgian Pensions Administration, which still occupies it today.
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