Tour de Lille
Commercial offices in Lille, France
50°38′20″N 3°04′34″E / 50.6388062°N 3.0760704°E / 50.6388062; 3.0760704Tour de Lille (previously known as Tour du Crédit-Lyonnais between 1995–2006[1]) is an office skyscraper in Euralille, the business district of the Lille metropolitan area.
Designed by Christian de Portzamparc,[2] this emblematic tower of the city of Lille is also called "the ski boot", "the flipper" or even "the L".[3]
116 m high, with an area of 18,135 m2, it is the fifth tallest tower outside of Île-de-France behind the Tour Incity in Lyon, the Tour Part-Dieu in Lyon, the Tour CMA-CGM in Marseille and the Tour Bretagne in Nantes.
The Tour de Lille overlooks the Lille-Europe station.
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- Tour de Lille
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- Tour Perret (Amiens) (104 m) (1952)
- Tour Les Poissons (129.5 m) (1970)
- Tour Montparnasse (210 m) (1972)
- Tour First (231 m) (2011)