La Défense presents two new generation “mixed” building projects

The developer of the business district revealed, during the International Market for Real Estate Professionals (Mipim), the winners of two calls for innovative urban projects launched in 2022.

The first, in an abandoned urban area very close to the La Défense arch, will consist of three buildings, including a tower some 90 meters high presented as "the first low-carbon high-rise building in France", and two residential buildings of 'about fifty meters.

Entrusted to the developer Linkcity and Crédit Agricole Immobilier, it must be built in 2031.

“This must be an opportunity to prove that we understood that we were really, this time, in a new generation of projects at La Défense,” argued Pierre-Yves Guice, general director of Paris La Défense, wishing to see the project “the most sober, the most clever, the most virtuous possible”.

The space on which it is to be built should have accommodated the Signal Tower, a pharaonic skyscraper project abandoned in 2010 for lack of applicants during this period of crisis.

A second project, on the edge of the business district in the town of Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine), has been entrusted to the developer Quartus and will consist of four buildings, including two housing units and two for reversible use, intended to be completed “by 2030-2031”.

La Défense, which launched a consultation on its future in 2022, intends to transform itself into a district no longer solely dedicated to offices but welcoming more businesses and housing, particularly students.

Large office tower projects are no longer as popular as before, in a context of mass teleworking which reduces the need for office space.

In February, the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield real estate group postponed its Sisters towers project indefinitely, not considering the market conditions favorable enough to launch it.