Tour Michelet


Tour Michelet is an office skyscraper in the Puteaux commune of the La Défense district in Paris. Built in 1985, the tower stands at tall with 34 floors and is the List of tallest buildings and structures in the [Paris region|34th tallest building in Paris].
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History

Designed by architects Jean Willerval, Henri La Fonta, and Branco Vulic, the tower notably serves as the headquarters of the French company of TotalEnergies, whose previous headquarters were until its relocation to the Total Coupole Tower in 2000 following the acquisition of Elf Aquitaine. From its inception in 1985, it was the headquarters of Kodak Pathé. The tower is connected to the public transport network in the greater Paris area via the La Défense metro station and the La Défense train station.
Like several other buildings in La Défense such as (Tour Franklin, Cœur Défense, the former Elf building and Tour Les Poissons, the Michelet Tower's volumetry creates the effect of being composed of several joined buildings, an impression accentuated by the various patterns on the facade, sometimes striped, sometimes gridded.
The tower was planned to be demolished in 2020 in order to make place for The Link Towers, but the solution was scrapped in time.