The Gildo Pastor Center is a high-rise commercial building in

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Location

It is located at number 7 on the Rue du Gabian in

Fontvieille, Monaco Fontvieille (; lij, Funtanaveya ) is the southernmost ward in the Principality of Monaco. It was developed by an Italian architect, Manfredi Nicoletti, between the 1970s and the 1990s. History In contrast to the other city districts Monaco-V ...

History

The construction of the building was carried out by Monegasque heir

Gildo Pallanca Pastor Gildo Pallanca Pastor (born 1 April 1967) is a Monaco, Monegasque businessman, CEO and owner of Venturi (electric car company), Venturi. Early life Gildo Pallanca Pastor was born in Monaco, the son of Claude Pallanca and the heiress and business ...

. The building was owned by his mother, heiress

Hélène Pastor Hélène Pastor (31 March 1937 – 21 May 2014) was a Monegasque businesswoman and heiress. She headed what is seen as Monaco’s ‘second dynasty’, and was the richest woman in the principality. She was assassinated by a gang that included he ...

.Hélène Pastor Pallanca: Le Gildo Pastor Center
It was named in honor of her father,

Gildo Pastor Gildo Pastor (October 6, 1910 – October 21, 1990) was a Monégasque businessman and property developer. Life and career Gildo Pastor was born in Monaco as the son of Jean-Baptiste Pastor, a stonemason from Liguria in Italy, who immigrated ...

. It served as the headquarters of her eponymous real estate company. It is 125.82 ft. high, with twelve storeys. It was built with concrete and designed in the

modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...

architectural style. Underneath the building, there are three flights of underground parking, with 900 parking spaces. The building is home to a restaurant named ''Le Bureau''. It is also rented out as corporate offices to companies such as Gestion Maritime, Avinco, a helicopter company,

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, a yacht retailer, and GasLog, a shipping company.GasLog: Contact
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