Odeon Tower, High-rise building in La Rousse district, Monaco.
Odeon Tower is a high-rise building in La Rousse with two connected towers reaching 170 meters across 49 floors. The structure houses 259 apartments, a spa center, swimming pool, and business facilities within its footprint.
Prince Rainier III halted high-rise construction in the late 1980s. In 2008 Albert II dropped a costly polder extension and backed a tower instead; the National Council voted for it on 12 February 2009. A priest blessed the site on 4 November 2009, structural work ended in July 2013, and delivery came in April 2015.
The tower's name comes from the Odeon, a cinema that once stood on the site. The common entrance hall carries wall sculptures by French artist Mateo Mornar, while Alberto Pinto designed the private lobby and the residents' shared spaces. The building was blessed by a priest on 4 November 2009, a symbolic step in a Catholic principality.
The tower stands in La Rousse, in a densely built area that gets hot in summer. Its 543 parking spaces are underground, and no parking is provided for two-wheelers. The private apartments have a separate entrance from the 177 state housing units, so visitors should confirm which lobby they need before arriving.
The foundations reach 42 metres deep, not 50, sunk into marno-limestone ground with karst pockets; 17 km of thermal probes run through about a hundred barrettes, using the foundations as a geothermal well that sheds summer heat into the soil and recovers it in winter.
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