Tour Légende, Modern skyscraper in La Défense district, Puteaux, France
Tour Légende is a 165 m office skyscraper in Puteaux, La Défense, with an elliptical plan 70 m long and 32 m wide. Its northern edge is cut by a conical recess rising through the first 26 floors, forming the main entrance under a circular canopy 24 m in diameter, so the tower is shorter at its base than at its top. The facade alternates horizontal bands of plain steel and tinted glass.
Built in 2001 for Électricité de France, the tower was designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners with French architects Jean Rouit and Roger Saubot. In 2019 the Singaporean sovereign fund GIC bought it for about €550 million, and in 2023 the French company Morning opened its new workspace there.
The tower's plot code in the La Défense master plan was "PB6": P for Puteaux, B for bureaux (offices), 6 for the cadastral parcel. Employees still commonly call it PB6. The name Légende replaced EDF after the building changed hands.
The building is easily accessible through direct connections to La Défense's subway and bus network via underground passages. Using these covered walkways is especially convenient on rainy or cold days.
The tower's plan is lenticular, and a conical section is cut out of its northern edge up to the 26th floor, so the building is longer at the top than at its base. The top of this conical excavation sits at the same height as the ceiling, not the roof, of the Grande Arche. The tower stands perpendicular to the Arche, whose axis passes exactly through the centre of the disc above the entrance.
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