Cœur Défense is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district of Paris, France. With 350,000 m² (3.77 million sq. ft), it is the building with most floor space in Europe along with the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest.

Coeur Défense was built in 2001, replacing the former Esso Tower, the first building of old generation to be destroyed in La Défense. Cœur Défense is a large complex made of 2 main bodies connected to one another by a smaller body and seating on a wide basis made of several smaller bodies. The edges of all bodies are rounded. The cladding is white, with large windows. An electronic system monitors white blinds which can be drawn or opened all together at the same time.

The two main bodies are 161 m (528 ft) tall each. Both of them are relatively thin as their width is only 24 m (79 ft), and they are out of line with each other, so that sunlight can reach all parts of the building.

See also

• Skyscraper
• La Défense
• List of tallest structures in Paris

External links

• Cœur Défense (Emporis)

Tall buildings and structures in Paris | Skyscrapers in France | La Défense

Cœur Défense