Tour La Villette, Office skyscraper in Aubervilliers, France
Tour La Villette is a 125-metre reinforced concrete office tower at 6 rue Émile-Reynaud and 1 rue Henri-Barbusse in Aubervilliers, on the edge of the Boulevard Périphérique by the Porte de la Villette. Its facade is a dense grid of small recessed windows crossed by a central vertical band of dark blue glass; the flat roof carries the blue letters EURASIA and a thin antenna mast. It has 35 floors and a two-level underground car park of 663 spaces.
The building was designed in 1972 by architect Michel Holley during a period of major urban development in the Paris region. It has undergone several name changes over the years, reflecting shifts in the local business landscape.
The tower carries the name of its main occupant: the South Korean firm Daewoo displayed its sign on the roof until the late 1990s. After Daewoo's dismantling, the Olympe group bought it in 2000, and the building is sometimes called Tour Olympe. Since 2022 the Eurasia group has owned it, and blue capital letters reading EURASIA stand on the white rooftop structure.
The tower is located at Porte de la Villette with direct access to public transportation and sits in an industrial area of the metropolis. It is easily reached thanks to its position at a major transport hub.
At 125 metres, it is the second-tallest skyscraper in Seine-Saint-Denis after the 129-metre Tour Pleyel in Saint-Denis. Its rooftop once carried the Daewoo sign, and since 2022 the Eurasia group has planned a five-storey attic addition with a rooftop.
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