Tour UAP Lyon, Office tower in Part-Dieu district, Lyon, France
Tour UAP Lyon was a 74-metre office tower with 25 floors at the corner of cours Lafayette and rue Garibaldi in Part-Dieu, Lyon. Its dark brown facade was a dense grid of vertical window strips, and white lettering on the upper shaft read "TOUR PART-DIEU". It was demolished in 2012 to make way for the Incity Tower.
Completed in 1972 by architects Abro and Henri Kandjian, the building embodied the growth of Lyon's business center during the early 1970s. It stood until 2012, when demolition began to make way for the Incity Tower project.
The structure derived its name from Union des Assurances de Paris, reflecting the strong presence of insurance companies in Lyon's economic development.
The building was located at the corner of Lafayette Street and Garibaldi Street in the heart of the business district. After sitting vacant for many years, its demolition in 2012 prepared the site for future development.
In December 2011 a crane lifted a mobile demolition structure called a "coiffe" onto the tower's top. It descended floor by floor, cutting one storey per week, a technique never before used on a tower. Two ten-tonne shredders crushed the concrete, and 280,000 tonnes of material were removed before the coiffe was dismantled in April 2012.
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