Montparnasse Tower
Tour Maine-Montparnasse—commonly called the Tour Montparnasse—rises to about 210 metres, and it was France’s tallest skyscraper until 2011, when the 231-metre Tour First in La Défense overtook it. Built from 1969 to 1973, the tower reaches 59 floors and sits directly above the Montparnasse–Bienvenüe station of the Paris Métro. Designed by Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan, and Louis de Hoÿm de Marien, and built by Campenon Bernard, it remains the tallest building in Paris proper and ranks among the highest in France. Its observation deck, branded “Paris Montparnasse,” is on the 56th floor at about 200 metres above the ground, and on a clear day the view extends 40 km. In September 2017, Nouvelle AOM won a competition to redesign the building’s façade, and the restaurant Ciel de Paris occupies the same level; the guard rail can be pneumatically lowered to accommodate the antennae mounted along it.
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