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Sublime solar skin

Building integration: Suspended 100 meters in the air, French consulting engineers SECM have constructed a winding roof with 800 glass photovoltaic modules on top of a new eco high-rise on the edge of Paris. This was then ingeniously placed on the movable so-called spider brackets.

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pv magazine

18 Jan 2011

The Eiffel Tower and the towers of La Défense district. This is the impressive view presented to the 2,400 employees of Bouygues Télécom, who moved into their new premises in autumn. The gleaming crystal Sequana Tower lies at the doorstep of Paris in Issy-les-Moulineaux. A mere stone’s throw from the banks of the Seine, architect …

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