Type Office Antenna spire 130 m (430 ft) Floor count 40 Floors 40 Architect Jean Willerval | Completed 1988 Roof 130 m (430 ft) Height 140 m Opened 1988 | |
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Architecture firm Urquijo, Willerval, Lecoq, Macola Similar La Défense, Tour Europlaza, Tour Carpe Diem, Tour Majunga, Tour Aurore |
Tour Eqho (also known as Tour IBM, and Tour Descartes) is an office skyscraper located in La Défense business district situated west of Paris, France.
Map of Tour Descartes, 92400 Courbevoie, France
Built in 1988, the tower, with a height of 130 meters, belongs to the third generation of towers in La Défense. The tower takes the shape of a parallelepiped in which a semi-cylinder would have been extruded on the main façade. Tour Descartes used to host the French headquarters of IBM Corporation until 2010. It now hosts a variety of companies with KPMG taking the most floors
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