Tour Descartes

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Tour Descartes (also known as tour IBM) is an office skyscraper located in La Défense business district situated west of Paris, France.

Built in 1988, the tower, with a height of 130 meters, belongs to the third generation of towers in La Défense. The tower takes the shape of a parallelepiped in which a semi-cylinder would have been extruded on the main façade.

It hosts the French headquarters of IBM computers corporation.

See also

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

External links

• Tour Descartes (Emporis)

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