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Tour Saint-Gobain

Tour Saint-Gobain is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tour Saint-Gobain rather than just read about it. In short: The Saint-Gobain Tower (also known as the Tour M2) is an office skyscraper in the Courbevoie commune of the La Défense district in Paris. Built between 2016 and 2019, the tower stands at 178 m (584 ft) tall with 44 floors and is the 17th tallest building in Paris.

Key takeaways

Tour Saint-Gobain belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Tour Saint-Gobain to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Tour Saint-Gobain from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Saint-Gobain Tower (also known as the Tour M2) is an office skyscraper in the Courbevoie commune of the La Défense district in Paris. Built between 2016 and 2019, the tower stands at 178 m (584 ft) tall with 44 floors and is the 17th tallest building in Paris.

History After the abandonment of the Tour Generali project, an architectural project planned to reach 265 meters in height, Italian insurance company Generali, the landowner, developed a new, more modest tower project that would become Saint-Gobain's headquarters planned as the M2 Tower. Demolition of the existing Iris building and construction of the tower began in the summer of 2016. The foundation stone of the site was laid on April 19, 2017, by Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain, Gabriele Galateri di Genola, Chairman of Generali, and Xavier Huillard, Chairman and CEO of Vinci SA. The construction of this tower will lead to the abandonment of the old offices serving as headquarters for the mirror company, on the other side of the circular Boulevard of La Défense. The building displays a glazed-surface volume consisting of the last floors, which can be accessed directly from the workspaces. It was designed to feature greenhouses and freespaces for panoramic views. The mai npurpose was the development of living conditions in a high-rise building.

Construction site chronology

See also List of tallest buildings in France List of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris region

References

External links

Tour Saint-Gobain at SkyscraperPage Tour Saint-Gobain at Structurae Tour M2 in Courbevoie at SKYDB

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tour Saint-Gobain

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tour Saint-Gobain claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tour Saint-Gobain before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tour Saint-Gobain ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tour Saint-Gobain

In research: Tour Saint-Gobain appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tour Saint-Gobain in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tour Saint-Gobain is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2019 establishments in France, 21st-century architecture in France, Buildings and structures completed in 2019, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tour Saint-Gobain outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Tour Saint-Gobain in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Tour Saint-Gobain means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Tour Saint-Gobain in simple terms?

Why does Tour Saint-Gobain matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Tour Saint-Gobain?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Tour Saint-Gobain.