Hexagone Balard

Hexagone Balard
Hexagone Balard in 2016
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General information
StatusCompleted
LocationParis
Coordinates48°50′08″N 2°16′34″E / 48.83556°N 2.27611°E / 48.83556; 2.27611
Current tenantsMinistry of the Armed Forces
Construction started2012 (2012)
Completed5 November 2015 (2015-11-05)
Cost€4.2 billion
OwnerFrench Republic
Dimensions
Other dimensions420 000 m²
Technical details
Floor area13.5 ha

Hexagone Balard is the headquarters of the French Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Inaugurated in 2015, more than 9,300 personnel from the French Army, French Navy, French Air and Space Force and Direction générale de l'armement have moved into this 165,000 m2 (1,780,000 sq ft)[1] white opaque glass-fronted building,[2] on 41 acres (17 ha),[3] from previously separate headquarters for each service branch. It cost 4.2 billion euro.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Hexagone Balard - France's new Department of Defense". Archello. Retrieved 23 November 2021. All the offices are distributed within the green areas. In addition to the headquarters of the Department, the project includes many facilities, some of them open to the public and the inhabitants of the neighborhood : a health center with several medical offices, two nurseries, a hairdressing salon and a swimming pool.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference la-croix was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Hipp, P. A. (5 November 2015). "The Hexagone-Balard, the "French Pentagon," Opens". Frenchly. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

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