Tour Emblem, Office building in La Défense, France
Tour Emblem is a 103-metre office tower in Courbevoie, in the Faubourg de l'Arche area of La Défense, with 28 floors and about 28,000 square metres of floor space. Its footprint is a right prism; before renovation it had a brown reflective facade with tinted windows that looked black from outside. A bronze by André Barelier, "Le Téléphone", stands before the entrance.
Tour Emblem was the first tower built in the Faubourg de l'Arche district, completed in 1998. It was designed by architects Nicolas Ayoub and Michel Andrault and first named Tour T4, then Tour Cegetel and Tour Cèdre. EDF Group services occupied it until the end of 2019; a renovation between 2020 and 2021 came with its renaming to Tour Emblem.
The tower's successive names record its occupants: Tour T4, then Tour Cegetel, then Tour Cèdre, and Tour Emblem after the 2020–2021 renovation. At its entrance stands André Barelier's bronze "le Téléphone", a figure using a mobile phone, a detail pedestrians pass daily on the slab.
The tower stands at 7 avenue de l'Arche in the Faubourg de l'Arche quarter of Courbevoie. Its main access opens onto the La Défense esplanade, with a secondary entrance at street level on avenue de l'Arche. The La Défense metro and train station links the building to central Paris.
A bronze by André Barelier titled "Le Téléphone", showing a person using a mobile phone, stands in front of the tower's entrance. The building was first called Tour T4, then Tour Cegetel and Tour Cèdre, before taking the name Tour Emblem after its 2020–2021 renovation.
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