Tour Avant-Seine, High-rise building in Front de Seine, Paris, France
Tour Avant-Seine is a residential high-rise in the Front de Seine district of Paris's 15th arrondissement. The tower holds 220 apartments, including single rooms and studios. Levels 0, +1, +3 and +4 house the building's cellars, level 2 holds the entrance hall and caretaker's premises, and level +5 contains the technical galleries; the remaining floors are apartments, single rooms or studios.
Tour Avant-Seine was completed in 1975 as part of the Front de Seine redevelopment in the 15th arrondissement, which replaced riverside industrial land with residential towers. A full facade cleaning and deep renovation of the tower were finished in early 2014, and the Vega island slab was remodeled with planted gardens and updated lighting.
The tower's name places it at the front of the Seine, and its 220 apartments mix studios and single rooms with family flats. The final scene of the 1975 film Peur sur la ville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, was shot here, so the building appears on screen as a Parisian high-rise of that era.
The tower stands on the Vega island slab, whose deck was renovated and reshaped as part of the slab renovation completed in early 2014, with tree-planted gardens added and lighting modernised. The building itself also underwent a full cleaning and deep renovation finished at the start of 2014. Access to the apartments is via the level 2 entrance hall, which also houses the caretaker's premises.
The final scene of the 1975 film Peur sur la ville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, was shot at Tour Avant-Seine. The building was also given a full exterior cleaning and deep renovation, completed in early 2014, which included reworking the Vega block slab with planted gardens and modernized lighting.
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