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Tour Signal was a proposed skyscraper in La Défense and in Puteaux, France.[1] Contents 1 Design and development 2 Location 3 Outcome 4 Notes Design and development[edit] Medea and Layetana were the developers with Ateliers Jean Nouvel as architects. Location[edit] West Gate was chosen as the location for the building in order to open the La Défense district to the municipality of Puteaux. The project’s ambition was to create a stronger polarity at the heart of the Île-de-France and develop a major attraction while relating the project to its natural and built environment and, lastly, embodying the various elements which strengthen the feeling that the project belongs in the district. Outcome[edit] This project has been cancelled. In 2009, Medea and Layetana announced they are not involved in the project anymore, and the new president of the EPAD Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud declared her opposition to the tower which looks like an unaesthetic "monolith". Structural type: highrise Architectural style: modern Materials: glass, steel and concrete Design: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=76763 Notes[edit] ^ Lebow, Arthur. "The Contextualizer," New York Times. April 6, 2008, p. 4; excerpt, "...a skyscraper that Nouvel (adapting a term from the artist Brâncuși) called the “tour sans fins,” or endless tower. Conceived as a kind of minaret alongside the squat, monumental Grande Arche de La Défense, the endless tower has taken on some of the mystique of Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Friedrichstrasse glass skyscraper of 1921. To obscure its lower end, the tower was designed to sit within a crater. Its facade, appearing to vanish in the sky, changed as it rose, from charcoal-colored granite to paler stone, then to aluminum and finally to glass that became increasingly reflective, all to enhance the illusion of dematerialization." v t e La Défense Skyscrapers and complexes Tour Adria Tours Aillaud Tour Areva Tour Ariane Tour Athéna Tour Atlantique (FR) Tour Aurore Tour Carpe Diem Tour CB21 Tour CBX Tour Cèdre (FR) Tour Chartis (FR) Tour D2 Cœur Défense Tour Défense 2000 Tour EDF Tour Égée Tour Eqho Tour Europe (FR) Tour Europlaza Tour Ève (FR) Tour First Tour France Tour Franklin Tour Gambetta (FR) Tour GAN Eurocourtage (FR) Grande Arche Tour Granite Tour Initiale Tour Les Poissons Tour Majunga Tour Manhattan (FR) Tour Neptune (FR) Tour Opus 12 Tour Pascal (FR) Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine Tour Sequoia Tours Société Générale (Alicante and Chassagne) Tour T1 Tour Total Esso Tower (demolished) Planned Tour Generali (cancelled) Hermitage Plaza Phare Tower Tour Signal (cancelled) Other landmarks Center of New Industries and Technologies ESSEC Business School Parvis de la Défense (FR) Paris Métro stations Esplanade de La Défense La Défense – Grande Arche (Gare de La Défense) This list is incomplete. v t e Puteaux Areas La Défense Primary and secondary schools Le Lycée Général et Technologique Agora Le Lycée Professionnel Lucien-Voilin Landmarks Tour AGF - Athéna (FR) Tour Atlantique (FR) Tour Ariane Center of New Industries and Technologies ESSEC Business School Tour Défense 2000 Tour EDF Tour Ève (FR) Tour France Tour Franklin Grande Arche Tour Initiale Tour Majunga Opus 12 Tower Tour Pascal (FR) Tour Sequoia Notre-Dame de Pentecôte (FR) Parvis de la Défense (FR) Planned Tour Signal (cancelled) Paris Métro stations Esplanade de La Défense La Défense – Grande Arche (Gare de La Défense) Transilien stations Gare de Puteaux This list is incomplete. v t e Proposed supertall skyscrapers Proposed/ under construction 1 Park Lane 3 Hudson Boulevard 4/C 15 Penn Plaza 50 Hudson Yards 53W53 80 South Street 151 Incheon Tower Airlangga Residences Akhmat Tower Al Rajhi Tower Aspire Parramatta Azerbaijan Tower Buenos Aires Forum Burj Mubarak al-Kabir Crystal Island Dream Tower Dubai Creek Tower Dynamic Tower East Office Tower EP 07 Tower Frankfurt Millennium Tower Gezhouba International Plaza GIFT Diamond Tower Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Hermitage Plaza Hudson Place Towers I Hyundai Global Business Center Iconic Towers The Illinois The Imperial 3 India International Trade Center Karachi Port Tower Krrish Square Lopez Center Manhattan West Tower I Merdeka PNB 118 Ocean 1 Tower One Bayfront Plaza One Galleon Place One Queensbridge One Vanderbilt P-17 Phoenix Towers PVN Tower Saigon Centre Tower 2 Seoul Lite Shenyang International Finance Center Signature Tower Jakarta Signature Towers Sky City Suyong Bay Tower Torre Planetarium Tower Infinity Tradewinds Square Tribune East Tower Vista Tower The Wave Tower Wuhan CTF Centre Cancelled 1 Dubai 1 New York Place 1 Park Avenue 7 South Dearborn American Commerce Center Ameritrust Tower Anara Tower Bank of the Southwest Tower BDNI Center 1 Bin Manana Twin Towers Center City Tower Chicago Spire Chicago World Trade Center City Hall and City Duma Crown Las Vegas Dubai Towers Dubai Dubai Towers Istanbul Eaton's / John Maryon Tower Eighth Sister Faros del Panamá Grant USA Tower Grollo Tower Hotel Attraction Houston Tower Ice Tower International Business Center Larkin Building London Millennium Tower Lotte World II Hotel Madison Square Garden Towers I & II Meraas Tower Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle Najd Tower Nakheel Tower Old Chicago Main Post Office Redevelopment Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers Palace of the Soviets Palacio de la Bahia Park Square Tower Russia Tower Sapphire Tower Signature Tower South Ferry Plaza The Spiral Television City Tower Tianlong Hotel Torre Bicentenario Torre Bicentenario II Torre Generali Tour Generali Tour Sans Fins Tour Signal Trans National Place Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower World Product Center Xujiahui Tower Never realized Aeropolis 2001 Bionic Tower DIB-200 Dubai City Tower Empire World Towers Kostabi World Trade Center Millennium Tower, Tokyo Murjan Tower PAGCOR Tower Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid Sky City 1000 Sky Mile Tower Tatlin's Tower Twin Towers 2 Ultima Tower Vortex Tower X-Seed 4000 Xtopia Arcology List of tallest buildings Supertall skyscrapers Coordinates: 48°53′29″N 2°14′01″E / 48.89139°N 2.23361°E / |