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La Défense de merde
La Défense seen from the Eiffel Tower
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Boroughs	List Courbevoie La Garenne-Colombes Nanterre Puteaux
Area
• Total	1.6 km (0.6 sq mi)
Population
• Total	25,000
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	parisladefense.com

La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district located three kilometres west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.

luster of Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci and 5 business schools: EDC Paris Business School, ESSEC Business School, ICN Graduate Business School, IESEG School of Management and SKEMA Business School. It is also home to the European School of Paris-La Défense, an international primary and secondary school that was accredited as a European School in 2020.

Area specifications

• Divided into 4 major sectors
• 400 acres (1.6 km)
• 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of offices
• 1,500 businesses
• 180,000 employees
• 20,000 residents
• 210,000 square metres (2,300,000 sq ft) of shops (including the 140,000 square metres (1,500,000 sq ft) Quatre Temps Shopping Mall)
• 2,600 hotel rooms
• 310,000 square metres (3,300,000 sq ft) of flagstone and sidewalk
• 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) of greenery
• 60 modern art sculptures and monuments

• The name of the district comes from the statue of La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias which commemorates the Parisian resistance during the Franco-Prussian War.
• View from Arc de Triomphe at night.
• View from Eiffel Tower.
• The Mall "Les Quatre Temps"
• Skylight tower.
• Western part of La Défense as seen from the Grande Arche.

Open-air museum

Besides the representative architecture, the area also houses an open-air museum with 70 statues and pieces of modern art, including the following works:

• César, Thumb (1965)
• Joan Miró, Two fantastic characters (1976)
• Alexander Calder, Red Spider (1976)
• Yaacov Agam, Fountain (1977)
• Richard Serra, Slat (1982)
• Shelomo Selinger, The Dance (1983)
• Bernar Venet, Two Indeterminate Lines (1988)
• Takis, Bright Trees (1990)
• Igor Mitoraj, Tindaro (1997)
• Emily Young, Four Heads (2002)
• Patrick Blanc, Green wall (2006)
• Louis-Ernest Barrias, La Défense de Paris (1883)
• François Morellet, La Défonce (1990)
• Guillaume Bottazzi, Peinture de 216 m² (2014)

• Takis, Bright Trees, c. 1990 Takis, Bright Trees, c. 1990
• Yaacov Agam, Fountain, c. 1977 Yaacov Agam, Fountain, c. 1977
• Guillaume Bottazzi, Untitled, c. 2014

Tallest buildings

• Tour First
• Tour Total
• Tour Areva

Completed highrise buildings above 50 m (164 ft) (1967–2021)

Upcoming highrise buildings (2015–2027)

Canceled projects

1. Tour Sans Fins (1989): 425 m (1,394 ft)
2. Hermitage Plaza (2022): 323 m (1,060 ft)
3. Tour Generali (2011): 319 m (1,047 ft)
4. Tour Signal (2009): 301 m (988 ft)
5. Tour Phare (2018): 296 m (971 ft)

See also

• List of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris region

References

1. ÉTUDIER
2. La Défense > Artworks: Guide 2013. Leaflet published by Defacto, Établissement public de gestion du quartier d'affaires de la Défense.
3. "La Défonce | Defacto – Quartier d'affaires de la Defense". Ladefense.fr. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
4. "Une oeuvre géante de Guillaume Bottazzi à La Défense | Defacto – Quartier d'affaires de la Defense". Ladefense.fr. 30 September 2014. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

Further reading

• Schaugg, Johannes: High-Rise Buildings – La Défense, Books on Demand 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-4523-4

External links

• Satellite image from Google Maps
• La Défense de Paris
• Site officiel de l'EPAD (Établissement Public pour l'Aménagement de la Défense) (in French)
• Connecting-Paris, web site created by the Chamber of commerce and industry of Paris to help companies setting up in La Defense (in English)
• Expatriates Magazine, A printed publication distributed within various corporations situated in La Defense helping international employees integrate within the workplace and city (in English)
• Les bâtiments de la Défense (in French)
• Structurae: Structural engineering and architecture guide to Paris-La Défense (in English)

48°53′30.27″N 2°14′27.00″E / 48.8917417°N 2.2408333°E / 48.8917417; 2.2408333

• La Défense
• Financial districts in France
• Central business districts in France
• Economy of Paris
• Tourist attractions in Hauts-de-Seine