Tour_Paradis

Tour Paradis

Tour Paradis

Skyscraper in Belgium


Tour Paradis (Paradise Tower), also commonly named Tour des Finances de Liège (Financial Tower of Liège), is a 136-metre office skyscraper located in the Guillemins area of Liège, Belgium. Constructed from 2012 to 2014, it is the tallest skyscraper in Wallonia.

The Tour Paradis in April 2015.

The façade is made of Photovoltaic Glazings manufactured by ISSOL, a Belgian company specialized in Building Integrated Photovoltaics.

The building was inaugurated in 2015 and became the workplace of more than 1000 employees from SPF Finances.

In 2022, it was announced in the media that the tower was underoccupied due to the generalization of homeworking that started during the Covid-19 crisis.

Completion of Tour des Finances de Liège was in the year 2014 as evidently shown on Doka. With he tower hosting 27 floors and it is also known as Le Centre de Finances.

Ranked 8613th Tallest skyscraper in the world, it also ranks as the 387th tallest in Europe, 6th tallest in Belgium, and the tallest in sky scrapper Liège by Skyscraper center

Desiged by two architects named Jaspers-Eyers Architects, i.s.m.[1] and Bureau d'Architecture, Greisch cvba[2].

The finance tower is a project owned by Fedimmo with the research phase starting in 2008, launched into development in 2012and completed in 2014.


References

  1. "Finance Tower". Jaspers Eyers Architects. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  2. "Bureau greisch - Finance tower - Liège". Bureau greisch. Retrieved 2024-01-05.

50.6274°N 5.5720°E / 50.6274; 5.5720


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