The Tour Oxygène (Oxygen Tower in English) is a skyscraper which rises 28 levels in the district of
La Part-Dieu
La Part-Dieu () is a quarter in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France. It is the second-largest Tertiary sector of the economy, tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Grand Paris, Greater Paris. The area also contains Lyon's primar ...
in the 3rd arrondissement of
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
,
France
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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 m
2 of offices where two-thirds, 16,000 m
2 from the first to the 17th floor, are already reserved by the
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with th ...
, which wants to install the seat of its national leadership computing.
The extension of the shopping center
La Part-Dieu
La Part-Dieu () is a quarter in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France. It is the second-largest Tertiary sector of the economy, tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Grand Paris, Greater Paris. The area also contains Lyon's primar ...
(the "Oxygen Course") adds a sales area of 11,040 m
2 to the current center (including 2,000 m
2 reserved by Monoprix).
The promoter is the group Sogelym Steiner and businesses are GFC Construction and
Bouygues
Bouygues S.A. () is a French engineering group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Bouygues is listed on the Euronext, Euronext Paris exchange and is a blue chip (stock market), blue chip in the ...
Construction Privée. Anticipating the construction of one floor every four days, the group used two types of
cranes: 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 m
2 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
Gérard Collomb, 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
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Tour du Crédit Lyonnais
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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. Sometimes, su ...
References
External links
Official Website
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3rd arrondissement of Lyon
Office buildings completed in 2010
Skyscraper office buildings in Lyon
21st-century architecture in France