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Grande Arche

France

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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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 ([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).

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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