Tour Paradis, Office tower in Guillemins, Belgium
Tour Paradis is a 136-metre office skyscraper in the Guillemins district of Liège, designed by Jaspers-Eyers Architects with Bureau Greisch. Its 27 floors are clad in blue-tinted glass panels, and the facade bulges outward on one side before tapering to a sharp vertical edge. Evenly spaced white vertical fins run down the glass in aligned columns.
The tower replaced two asbestos-containing Finance Ministry buildings demolished from April 2015, after the 2007 tender was cancelled for not being published Europe-wide. Fedimmo won the 2008 relaunch; 87 objections led the Walloon Region to reorient the tip and accentuate the station-facing curves, with a new permit granted by Philippe Henry in 2012. Work ran from March 2012 to December 2014.
The name comes from a chapel called Paradis, destroyed in 1881, which stood near the present tower; Rue Paradis and the Petit Paradis residence keep the name alive. The tower hosts over 1,000 employees of the Belgian federal pensions service and is also called Le Centre de Finances.
The tower is visible from street level and dominates the urban landscape of the Guillemins district. Visitors can best admire its modern architecture and design from the surrounding streets and public areas.
The tower's name comes from a chapel called Paradis, destroyed in 1881, that once stood near the present site; the Rue Paradis and the Petit Paradis residence keep the name alive. Its 118-metre height rises to 136 metres with the antenna, making it Wallonia's tallest building.
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