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Grande Arche
Sign in to saveAlso known as Grande Arche de la Défense, Arche de la Défense, La Grande Arche, Grande Arche de la Defense, Arche de la Defense
monument and building in Paris's La Défense
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Within Vinony's link graph, Grande Arche is referenced by 469 other articles, and connects out to La Défense, Paris and Center of New Industries and Technologies.
The entry is geolocated on the map in FR.
Vinony files it under 1989 establishments in France, Buildings and structures completed in 1989 and Commons link from Wikidata.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- office
- Location
- La Défense , Île-de-France , France
- Inaugurated
- 14 July 1989
- Height
- 110 m (360 ft)
- Architects
- Johan Otto von Spreckelsen , Erik Reitzel
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Official name
- La Grande Arche de la Défense
- Country
- France
- Located in
- La Défense
- Location
- La Défense
- Official website
- www.lagrandearche.fr
- Image
- La Defense 2007 1.jpg
- Height
- 110.90
- Width
- 107.90
- Length
- 112
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- Commons category
- Grande Arche
- architect
- Erik Reitzel
- Commons gallery
- Grande Arche
- date of official opening
- 1989-07-14
- inception
- 1989-00-00
- shape
- tesseract
- described at URL
- www.ladefense.fr/fr/tour/grande-arche-la
- located in/on physical feature
- La Défense
- native label
- Arche de la Défense
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Encyclopedic overview
La Grande Arche de la Défense ( French: [la ɡʁɑ̃d aʁʃ d(ə) la defɑ̃s]; "The Great Arch of the Defense"), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité (French: [fʁatɛʁnite]; "Fraternity"), is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche.
A 110-metre-high (360 ft) cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe, and was one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 4 km (2+1⁄2 miles).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grande Arche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.