Scope and Contents: An office tower that meant to "signal the presence of the district" and "materialize the virtual axis composition that it imagines extended east to Skyscraper of Villeurbanne" as part of the implementation of "Part-Dieu" central business district. The tower was inaugurated in 1977. The building is 541 ft tall, with 42 floors. The top 10 floors are a hotel; the other floors are offices.The tower has a cylindrical shape that is topped by a 23-metre high pyramid. Each floor covers 1,240 sq ft...