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5- 26 Carré d’or: 9 apartments on 19 floors! 6-The ‘‘semi-floating’’ harbour wall - a Hugron. One of its special features is its
“It’s quite an elegant tower, but you’ve only Monegasque patent steel ball joint (770 tonnes and 8 metres in
got 9 flats on 19 floors and 60 metres! In Nice, In 2002, the titanic structure measuring 352 diameter), which connects it to the land (a
you’d have 80 flats... It makes you dizzy. This meters long, 28 m wide, and 19 m high with one-hectare embankment reclaimed from
tower symbolises luxury and it also shows a draft of 16 m, intended to protect the port the sea.) “The seawall is fixed to underwater
Monaco’s limits in terms of intensity. Monaco is of La Condamine and accommodate cruise piles located 55 metres deep by eight metal
known for its building density, but this doesn’t ships, was towed at a speed of 5 km/h by chains made up of 9,000 metal links of 100
necessarily serve the population density, and a Dutch tugboat company specialized in kg each. A counter-jetty, built by Chantiers
that’s the sore point’’, says the architectural transporting oil platforms and, which had de La Ciotat, protects the entire structure
historian. At 26 Carré d’Or, designed by among other things, helped to recover the from sea swell. Now installed and fixed the
Alexandre Giraldi, the residential section starts Russian submarine Kursk. “The exceptional right position, the structure can withstand
on the fourth floor, with four five-room flats convoy left from Algeciras, in Andalusia, a maximum displacement of 2.5° in either
(400 m²) and four two-storey flats (820 m²). where the gigantic concrete element was built direction. It doubles the capacity of the port
At the top of the tower, there’s a four-storey in a dry dock, expanded using explosives. For which boasts (…) The port reorganisation cost
penthouse of 1,650 m² with roof terrace and three years, the combined efforts of over 700 335 million euros, 150 of which was just for
private swimming pool! The lower floors are men achieved one of the greatest feats of the semi-floating wall alone. The price of
occupied by shops and offices. maritime engineering,” recalls Jean-Philippe success!”

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