EDF-GDF tower

Coordinates: 49°02′08″N 2°04′45″E / 49.03556°N 2.07917°E / 49.03556; 2.07917

Tour EDF, Cergy-Pontoise (France)

The EDF-GDF tower is an office building built in 1974 in the heart of the new town of Cergy, France, in the Cergy Prefecture business and administrative district. Its architect is Renzo Moro. The tower is 85.3 metres (280 ft) high, with 14 floors. It was built to house the sister companies Électricité de France and Gaz de France.[1][2]

In popular culture

The tower was used as a filming location in Henri Verneuil's film I... comme Icare released in 1979, starring Yves Montand. This is the tower from which the shots were fired to assassinate president Marc Jarry.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Tour EDF-GDF". SkyscraperPage.
  2. ↑ Marc Emery and Patrice Goulet (1983). Guide architecture en France: 1945-1983. Paris: Groupe Expansion and Architecture Today. p. 35. ISBN 2-904833-00-5.
  3. ↑ Eric Bureau (2003-08-27). "Le président d'" I... comme Icare " a été assassiné à Cergy" (in French). Retrieved 2011-11-20.


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