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Front de Seine is a development in the district of Beaugrenelle in
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, located along the river
Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plate ...
in the 15th arrondissement at the south of the
Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower ( ; french: links=yes, tour Eiffel ) 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. Locally nickname ...
. It is, with the 13th arrondissement, one of the few districts in the city of Paris containing highrise buildings, as most have been constructed outside the city (notably in La Défense). The Front de Seine district is the result of an
urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water ...
project from the 1970s. It includes about 20 towers reaching nearly 100 m of height built all around an elevated esplanade. That esplanade is paved with frescos that can be seen only from the elevated floors of the towers. As opposed to Italie 13, the design of the towers is much more varied. The Hôtel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (formerly known as Hôtel Nikkō), for instance, has red-encircled windows, while the
Tour Totem Front de Seine is a development in the district of Beaugrenelle in Paris, France, located along the river Seine in the 15th arrondissement at the south of the Eiffel Tower. It is, with the 13th arrondissement, one of the few districts in the ...
consists of a stack of several glazed blocks. A newly redesigned
shopping centre A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes ...
, the
Centre commercial Beaugrenelle   Beaugrenelle Paris is a shopping mall located in Paris' 15th arrondissement, close to the River Seine and 10 minutes' walk from the Eiffel Tower. It is one of the biggest shopping malls in Paris' inner city. A mix between a department store and ...
opened in 2013. Furthermore, while 13th arrondissement towers are predominantly residential and La Défense towers are predominantly commercial, the towers of the Front de Seine are of mixed commercial and residential use.


High-rise buildings

* Tour Avant-Seine (1975): 98 m, 32 storeys. * Tour Mars (1974): 98 m, 32 storeys. * Tour Paris Côté Seine (1977): 98 m, 32 storeys. * Tour Seine (1970): 98 m, 32 storeys * Tour Espace 2000 (1976): 98 m, 31 storeys. * Tour Évasion 2000 (1971): 98 m, 31 storeys. * Hôtel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (1976): 98 m, 31 storeys. * Tour Totem (1979): 98 m, 31 storeys. * Tour Beaugrenelle (1979): 98 m, 30 storeys. * Tour Panorama (1974): 98 m, 30 storeys. * Tour Perspective 1 (1973): 98 m, 30 storeys. * Tour Perspective 2 (1975): 98 m, 30 storeys. * Tour Reflets (1976): 98 m, 30 storeys. * Tour Rive Gauche (1975): 98 m, 30 storeys. * Tour Keller (1970): 98 m, 29 storeys. * Tour Cristal (1990): 98 m, 27 storeys. * 79
quai André Citroën A wharf, quay (, also ), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring location ...
: 24 storeys. * Tour Mirabeau (1972): 18 storeys. * Immeuble le Village (1973): 17 storeys. * Bureaux Hachette Livre (1969): 12 storeys. * Tour Mercure (1973): 12 storeys.emporis.com/zon
/ref> ;Other structures *
Cheminée du Front de Seine The Cheminée du Front-de-Seine is a chimney located in the 15th arrondissement, in the Grenelle district of Paris. It is 130 metres high and the tallest structure in the district by 30 metres. The chimney was designed by François Stahly and ...
(1971): 130 meters


See also

* * Italie 13 * La Défense *
List of tallest structures in Paris The tallest structure in the City of Paris and the Île-de-France remains the Eiffel Tower in the 7th arrondissement, 300 meters high ''(or 330 m including the broadcasting antenna at its top)'', completed in 1889 as the gateway to the 1889 Pari ...


References


External links


Front de Seine website
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