Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Until the 1960s there were no tall buildings in Paris to share the skyline with the Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in the city; a strict height limit of thirty-five meters was in place. However, in October 1958, under the Fifth Republic, in order to permit the construction of more housing and office buildings, the rules began to change.
Until the 1960s there were no tall buildings in Paris to share the skyline with the Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in the city; a strict height limit of thirty-five meters was in place. However, in October 1958, under the Fifth Republic, in order to permit the construction of more housing and office buildings, the rules began to change.
The tallest structure in the City of Paris and the Île-de-France remains the Eiffel Tower in the 7th arrondissement, 330 meters high, completed in 1889 as the gateway to the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The tallest building in the Paris region is the Tour Link, at 242 meters, located in La Défense. It is tied for ninth place among the ...
Buildings and structures completed in 1960 (19 C, 44 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1961 (18 C, 35 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1962 (20 C, 22 P)
1960 in Paris (5 P) 1961 in Paris (4 P, 1 F) 1962 in Paris (4 P) 1963 in Paris (2 P) 1964 in Paris (3 P) 1965 in Paris (3 P) 1966 in Paris (4 P) 1967 in Paris (2 P)
The neighbourhood around it is a business quarter that houses Paris' tallest building, the Tour Montparnasse. The Catacombs of Paris To the south-east of the boulevard Montparnasse, to the bottom of the northward-running Avenue Denfert-Rochereau at the square of the same name, is one of Paris' few-remaining pre-1860s "prolype" gateways.
Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre (758 ft) Tour First in the La Défense business district west of Paris's city limits. It remains the tallest building in Paris proper and the third tallest in France, behind Tour First and Tour Hekla.
Demolished buildings and structures in Paris (39 P) F. Former theatres in Paris (59 P) P. Defunct prisons in Paris (1 C, 18 P)