Tour Seine, Residential tower in Front de Seine, Paris, France
Tour Seine is a residential high-rise of the Front de Seine district, in the Vega block of Paris's 15th arrondissement, classed IGH category A. Its facade is made of mosaic panels, with a central vertical strip of green panels and narrow windows between grids of grey and dark rectangular panels. It holds 220 apartments, including single rooms and studios; the entrance hall and caretaker's premises are on level 2, cellars on levels 0, +1, +3 and +4, and technical galleries on level +5.
Tour Seine was completed in 1970, one of the first towers built for the Beaugrenelle project in the Front de Seine district. It went up at the same time as the Tour de Mars and the Tour Évasion 2000. A deep renovation, including the facade, was finished in 2013, and the Vega block slab was remodelled with planted gardens and new lighting.
The tower's name comes from the Seine, which runs along the Front de Seine district where it stands on the Vega block. Its facade is made of mosaic panels, a feature noted for the building. The ground and lower levels hold cellars, while level 2 contains the entrance hall and caretaker's premises.
Tour Seine stands within the Vega block of the Front de Seine district in the 15th arrondissement, on the left bank of the Seine. The tower is residential, so the entrance hall and the guarded lobby on level 2 are not open to visitors; the surrounding esplanade, with its replanted gardens and renewed lighting, is what can be walked. The area is reached on foot from the Seine riverside and from the Beaugrenelle sector.
The tower is part of a rare cluster of about twenty high-rises grouped together in a compact area of Paris. This concentration exists because the district was built under special planning rules not applied elsewhere in the city.
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