The team : this project is presented by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and two partners, the Groupe Financière Centuria SAS and Bouygues Immobilier.
The architect : Jean-Michel Wilmotte, architect, town-planner and designer, opened his design offi ce in 1975. Today, with a team of one hundred and thirty persons of different nationalities, he is working on more than two hundred projects in France and abroad. Jean-Michel Wilmotte, a renowned architect, has been rewarded for numerous creations.
The investors : Groupe Financière Centuria and Bouygues Immobilier. Founded in January 2002, Centuria, an independent fi nancial company that manages portfolios and provides consulting services in fi nancial engineering and property, is established in Paris, Dubai, Casablanca, Peking and Tunisia. In 2004, it founded a property asset-management company in close collaboration with its local partner in the Middle-East. Bouygues Immobilier, chaired by François Bertière, is the propertydevelopment company owned by the Bouygues group, of which it is a 100% subsidiary. At La Défense, it has already carried out the Coeur Défense operation and built the Exaltis Tower.
The project : this team has chosen to concentrate on a single building with a totally new and powerful shape. “One area, three bases” this could be a way of summing up the idea driving this architectural project. To create the building, three independent entities are placed on a common core, giving the impression of pillars rising towards the sky. The tower’s appearance of clockwise rotation emphasises the idea of a “signal”, when seen from all directions. The base of each of these three towers begins in one direction to open towards another. Radically individual and daring, the tower would enhance the West Parisian skyline.
Porte Sud
284 mètres
115 000 m² namely
Offices : 50 000 m²
Accomodations : 10 500 m²
Hotel, tourist accomodations: 42 500 m²
Shops, facilities : 9 000 m²
Others : 3 000 m²
