Tour Pleyel, Mixed-use skyscraper in Saint-Denis, France.
Tour Pleyel is a 129-metre skyscraper at Carrefour Pleyel in Saint-Denis, built between 1969 and 1973 with a reinforced steel and concrete structure. Its square base measures 35 metres per side, and the profile narrows slightly at each floor. The white facade is covered in a dense grid of small dark windows, with diagonal cross-bracing visible near the top. Since 2024 it operates as a four-star hotel with nearly 700 rooms.
The tower was built in 1973 on the site of former Pleyel et Cie factories. It remains the only completed structure from an original plan that called for four identical buildings.
The tower's name comes from the Pleyel piano factories that stood on this site until the 1960s; the Carrefour Pleyel and the Line 13 station beside it carry the same name. Since 22 July 2024 the building has operated as a four-star hotel of nearly 700 rooms run by the German group H-Hotels, with a panoramic bar at the top.
The tower is easily accessible near Carrefour Pleyel Metro station on Line 13. You can view the building's exterior and the surrounding modern district from street level or nearby public spaces.
The rotating sign at the top was installed in 1985 for Bayer, after renovation work on the degraded Corten steel facades; it raised the tower's total height to 143 m. Philips took over in 1997, Siemens in 2006, then Kia in 2013. Measuring 34 m wide and 5.2 m high, it is the largest illuminated rotating sign in Europe.
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