The Link La Défense Office Tower Paris, Groupama Immobilier Building, Architect, Design
The Link La Défense Office Tower
New French Building: split into 2 wings, connected by 30 platforms – design by PCA-STREAM
29 May 2017
The Link La Défense Office Tower, Paris
The Link at La Défense
Design: PCA-STREAM
The Link, the advent of the new La Défense
Groupama Immobilier and PCA-STREAM unveil The Link, the tower that will mark the advent of the new Defense, and will complete its entrance door.

The Link concept wants to rethink the office tower, (too) long synonymous with verticality and isolation. ?A tower in La Défense is schematically a stack of trays of 1800m2 on average, on which the employees are isolated in small groups of 150 people per floor. The access to natural light is uneven, non-existent outdoor spaces and common spaces where work together very rare.
The traditional tower does not respond to the new paradigm of work spaces: places that promote cohesion, live together and collective intelligence, while respecting individual comfort,? observes Philippe Chiambaretta. This can generate an impression of isolation and anonymity among employees, ?who often have only the only place to find themselves the foot of their turn?.

PCA-STREAM has therefore devised an innovative tower morphology that takes advantage of the size of the parcel: the tower is split into 2 wings, connected by 30 platforms, the ?Links?. These platforms constitute the essential and distinct...