Tour Montparnasse / Montparnasse Tower
Location: Paris XVe
Date: 1973
Designers: Beaudoin, Cassan, De Marien, Saubot;
A. Epstein & Sons International, Inc., Architects

210m high, public viewing from 59th floor.

The Montparnasse Tower is the tallest building in France

It was the tallest building in Europe until the completion of Frankfurt´s MesseTurm in 1990 (MesseTurm, by Murphy/Jahn Architects in 1990, tallest building Europe at 257m high until 1997.

Murphy/Jahn designed the Trump Tower, completed 2005, 180m high in Stuttgart and the City Spire Center in Manhattan, a 248m high skyscraper).



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