Tour Eqho

Tour Eqho (also known as Tour IBM, and Tour Descartes^[1]) is an office skyscraper located in La Défense business district situated west of Paris, France.

Tour Eqho
Tour Eqho
General information
Type	Office
Location	La Défense (Courbevoie)
Coordinates	48°53′32″N 2°14′48″E
Completed	1988
Height
Antenna spire	130 m (430 ft)
Roof	130 m (430 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	40
Floor area	100,000 m2 (1,100,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Jean Willerval, Fernando Urquijo, Giorgio Macola

Built in 1988, the tower, with a height of 130 metres, belongs to the third generation of towers in La Défense.^[2] The tower takes the shape of a parallelepiped in which a semi-cylinder would have been extruded on the main façade. Tour Descartes used to host the French headquarters of IBM Corporation until 2010.^[3] It now hosts a variety of companies with KPMG taking the most floors.^[4]

Bloomberg News reported that the building is nicknamed “the urinal” by real estate brokers because of its distinctive shape.^[5]

See also

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

References

1. KPMG a pris ses marques dans la tour Eqho
2. Tour Eqho
3. EQHO : encore une tour métamorphosée à la Défense.
4. La Défense : le cabinet d'audit KPMG a choisi une ambiance zen
5. Sidders, Jack (27 July 2023). "Property Pain From Canary Wharf to Mainhattan Has Only Just Begun". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 28 July 2023.

External links

• Tour Eqho