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HEKLA TOWER
PUTEAUX (FRANCE)
JEAN NOUVEL
Following in the footsteps of the illustrious Glass Tower in New
York and the Agbar Tower in Barcelona, the HEKLA tower
THE MOST DRIVEN ARCHITECT OF HIS GENERATION HAS will stretch upwards to a height of 220 meters and will be a
LONG HAD LA DEFENSE IN HIS SIGHTS AND NOW HE HAS feature on Paris’s historic skyline. It is set to become an iconic
FINALLY LANDED THE PRIZE OF THE MOST RENOWNED emblem of the city.
BUSINESS DISTRICT IN EUROPE, AS THE AREA WILL BE HOME
TO NOUVEL’S LATEST MASTERPIECE, MAESTRIA. The facets of this 48-storey diamond are shaped by 14km of
sun shades which provide its unique architecture as well as
contributing to its temperature regulation.
This skyscraper, a veritable jewel of steel and glass, is surely
destined to become iconic. Its 76,000m will be home to offices
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and also to loggias and garden terraces on each floor.
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DELABIE product installed:
Angled Stainless Steel grab bar 135° (Ref. 5081P2)