The tallest structure in the City of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

and the

Île-de-France The Île-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the cou ...

remains the

Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower ( ; ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "''La dame de fe ...

in the 7th arrondissement, 330 meters high, completed in 1889 as the gateway to the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The tallest building in the Paris region is the Tour Link, at 242 meters, located in

La Défense La Défense () is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, west of the city limits. It is located in Île-de-France region's Departments of France, department of Hauts-de-Seine in the Communes of France, communes of Courbe ...

. It is tied for ninth place among the tallest buildings in the European Union. The tallest building within the city limits of Paris is the

Tour Montparnasse Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a office skyscraper in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the List of tallest buildings and structures in t ...

, 210 meters high.

Tallest buildings and structures

The Paris region has four of the tallest twenty-five buildings in the European Union: the tour Link, the Tour First, the Tour Hekla, and the Tour Montparnasse. As of 2022, there are 23 skyscrapers that reach a roof height of at least . Most of the Paris region's high-rise buildings are located in three distinct areas: :*

, located just west of the City of Paris in the

département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...

of the ''

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a department in the Île-de-France region of France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west and ...

''. Eight of the ten tallest buildings and structures in the region are located in La Defense. :*

Italie 13 Italie 13 (or Italie XIII) is the name of a large urbanism project in Paris which started in the 1960s and was interrupted in the 1970s. Its purpose was to profoundly modify the structure of some areas of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, 13th a ...

, located in the southern half of the 13th arrondissement: The 13th arrondissement towers are mostly residential, located in the south of the

arrondissement An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, and certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands. Europe France The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissem ...

, in what is today le ''Quartier chinois'' (Chinatown). :* Front de Seine, located in the

15th arrondissement The 15th arrondissement of Paris () is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ('the fifteenth'). The 15th arrondissement, called , is situated on the left bank of the River Seine. ...

: Most of the buildings of the Front de Seine, which is in close proximity to the

, were built in the 1970s and 1980s and are of mixed commercial and residential use. The tallest building is the

. Other high-rise buildings are scattered throughout the Paris area, mainly in close proximity to the '' Périphérique'' freeway. These include

Les Mercuriales Les Mercuriales are twin towers in Bagnolet, along the Boulevard Peripherique, in Paris, France. They were built in 1975, and are named ''Levant'' (Eastern) and ''Ponant'' (Western). They are the tallest twin towers in the EU and Europe’s seco ...

Bagnolet Bagnolet () is a Communes of France, commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. History On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occa ...

, the

Tour Pleyel Tour Pleyel is a skyscraper of mixed use, both residential and commercial, located in the '' commune'' of Saint-Denis in the suburbs of Paris, France. Built in 1972, the tower is 129 metres tall. At the top is a large turning advertising sign, i ...

in Saint-Denis, and the Hôtel Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile in the city proper (near the Porte Maillot). However the tallest tower is built within central Paris: the iconic

standing alongside the Seine River at the heart of the 7th arrondissement. Built in 1889, it was the first man-made structure in the world to exceed 1,000 feet. File:La Défense depuis l'Arc de Triomphe Janvier 2023.jpg,

, with the skyscrapers of

in the background File:Vue tours du 13e.JPG, Towers in the 13th arrondissement File:Front de Seine as seen from Pont Mirabeau 140412 1.jpg, The Front de Seine project in the 15th arrondissement This list ranks the Paris area buildings and structures that stand at least 100 meters tall. Existing structures are included for ranking purposes based on present height.

Structures proposed, approved, or under construction

This is a list of structures that are either under construction or due to start construction soon. Structures are sorted by planned height. The Authority managing

, the EPAD, has launched several contests for new towers in a large scale operation of renovation of the business district. Other proposed projects are currently being talked about in other municipalities of the inner suburbs such as

Issy-les-Moulineaux Issy-les-Moulineaux () is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine. Its citizens are called in French. It is one of Paris's entrances and is located from Notre Dame Cathedral, whic ...

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

or Saint-Denis.

References

* Schaugg, Johannes: ''High-Rise Buildings: Paris'', Books on Demand, 2009, .

External links

Paris area diagrams on Skyscraperpage.com
Diagrams showing the tallest structures in the Paris urban area * : International database of highrise buildings (incomplete)
Structurae
International database of structures (incomplete) {{TBSW *

Buildings, tallest

Tallest buildings and structures

Structures proposed, approved, or under construction

See also

References

External links