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Flag of Paris La Défense - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 1 February 2025
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Paris La Défense is a major business district just west of the town limits of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, spread across the municipality of Courbevoie and including too parts of the communes of Puteaux and Nanterre, and, since 2010, La Garenne-Colombes.
The district has 560 ha of area, 180,000 daily workers, 3,500,000 m2 of office
space. Around the Grande Arche and the Esplanade, La Défense contains many of
the Paris urban area's tallest skyscrapers.
La Défense is primarily a business district but it has too a population of
25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students.
The EPAD (Établissement public d'aménagement de la La Défense - La Défense Management & Development Office) was created in 1958 and the first buildings were built in the 1960ies.
After 2009, the Établissement public de gestion du quartier d'affaires de la
Établissement (EPGD), renamed Defacto in 2010, maintained public spaces and
ensures the promotion and animation of la Défense, while the EPAD, which
has been renamed Établissement public d'aménagement de la Défense Seine Arche (EPADESA), with a wider territorial scope, was in charge of the
development and the strategy.
Olivier Touzeau, 19 May 2017
In May 2016, the creation of a new local public institution to replace EPADESA and Defacto was announced. The creation of the Paris La Défense new public institution (Établissement public Paris La Défense) finally took place on 1 January 2018.
Olivier Touzeau, 1 February 2025
A new logo was adopted with the creation of the new Établissement public Paris La Défense (source: logonews.fr).
"The idea of vertical reading has been retained, so we can still see
the silhouette of the La Défense towers outlined in this logo. The
typography, while retaining the same spirit, has been slightly
reworked for greater readability. As for the colors, they changed
completely. Indeed, we go from a very corporate and serious blue to a
very punchy black and green contrast. The green circle brings
roundness to the logo while giving a real personality to the brand.
This graphic choice may, at first glance, seem surprising but it
becomes completely coherent when we make the connection with the urban
and street culture that is also very present in La Défense. This urban
aesthetic is found in particular in the stencil style of the logo."
A new flag with the new logo is in use (photo, 2024).
Olivier Touzeau, 1 February 2025
Former flag of Paris La Défense
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Former flag of Paris La Défense - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 19 May 2017
Defacto installed in 2015 the first flag of the district.
The masts were desperately destitute of their flags. After many years of absence, Defacto has just installed brand new French, European and Paris La Défense flags in the business district.
In all there are fourteen flags that now float in the sky of La Défense installed :
- on the one hand at the foot of the Grande Arche with three European flags, three French flags and two flags of Paris Défense;
- and on the other hand in the patio on the Esplanade, between Place de La Défense and the Agam Basin, with two flags of each category.
[Press release, 18 July 2015]
Photo of the flag (2015).
Olivier Touzeau, 19 May 2017