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Maison Tour

Story :
At the turn of the 1920s, social utopias and the doctrine of modern architecture agreed on the subject of the overpopulation of Paris. To answer this problem, Auguste Perret publishes from 1915 a slightly crazy project. He proposes to build between the Porte Maillot and the forest of Saint-Germain, more than three hundred "tower-houses". These constructions, 200 meters high, were also to be erected around the current ring road. The sixty-story buildings sat on eight-level plinths, connected to each other by bridges.

A few years before the film Metropolis, Perret was a forerunner of mixed programs since the upper floors were to accommodate housing while the basement was reserved for shops and offices. Leaving aside the urban and social complexity resulting from a city almost two thousand years old, the architect proposed a rational architecture in which mass housing had to respond to human and economic issues.

If this project did not see the light of day, it is perhaps because of the economic crisis that France experienced from the end of the 1920s, but no doubt also because of its extravagance and its scope. In 1942, Perret ended up designing the tower that bears his name in Amiens. Completed in 1960, 110 m high, located in a district that the architect wanted to be residential, commercial and tertiary, it was for a long time the tallest tower in Europe.

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Made in editor
Quality of life of 92
Contains 1164 people
Is about 190m high