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The Tour Oxygène (Oxygen Tower in English) is a skyscraper which rises 28 levels in the district of
La Part-Dieu Part-Dieu () is an area of Lyon Metropolis. It is also the second largest tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Greater Paris, with over 1,150,000 m2 of office and service space, along with 45,000 service sector jobs, 2,500 compani ...
in the 3rd arrondissement of
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. It forms part of the Oxygen Project, which includes the office tower and a shopping center, the ''Cours Oxygène''. The tower rises 115 meters high. This zone is served by the metro line


Project

Rising to 115 m high and with 80% glass area, the tower is smaller than its close neighbor, the Part-Dieu tower (165 meters at the top of the pyramid), but dominates the Swiss Tower (82 meters) which it directly faces. It has 28,794 m2 of offices where two-thirds, 16,000 m2 from the first to the 17th floor, are already reserved by the
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, which wants to install the seat of its national leadership computing. The extension of the shopping center
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(the "Oxygen Course") adds a sales area of 11,040 m2 to the current center (including 2,000 m2 reserved by Monoprix). The promoter is the group Sogelym Steiner and businesses are GFC Construction and
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Construction Privée. Anticipating the construction of one floor every four days, the group used two types of
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: two Potain tower cranes (MD 365 B L16 of 16 tons and MDT 222 J12 of 12 tons), and the proximity of the shopping center site with the tower required the use of two other cranes (MR 225A of 14 tons). The tower contains eighty workstations per tray of 1,000 m2 each located on twenty-eight floors served by seven lifts. On May 4, 2010, the new mall reached 15 000m ² with 25 new shops.


History

* In June 2006, the Departmental Committee of Commercial Equipment agreed the proposed shopping mall at the bottom of the tower Oxygen. * On 29 March 2007, the first building was laid in the presence of
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, then mayor of Lyon. * On 11 July 2008, the clearance work was completed and foundation work began. * In January 2009, the tower rose 40 meters high. * On 29 March 2009, the tower rose 85 meters high and became the second tallest building in the neighborhood beating the Tour Swiss Life. * In late April the tower was over 100 meters high. * The Oxygen tower finally reached its maximum height of 115 meters in May 2009.


See also

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Tour Incity The Tour Incity is a skyscraper office in Lyon, France. The building was completed in 2015 in the business district of La Part-Dieu, at the intersection of the Cours Lafayette (main entrance) and Garibaldi Street to replace the obsolete UAP tower ...
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Tour du Crédit Lyonnais The Tour Part-Dieu (formerly Tour du Crédit Lyonnais, or colloquially Le Crayon, or The Pencil) is a skyscraper in Lyon, France. The building is tall, in La Part-Dieu district, with 42 floors. The building was completed in 1977. It currently s ...
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Sustainable architecture Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings through improved efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, development space and the ecosystem at large. Sustainable ...


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External links


Official Website
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