Finance Tower

Finance Tower
Tour des Finances (French) Financietoren (Dutch)
The Finance Tower seen from the State Administrative Centre
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office building
Location	Brussels, Belgium
Coordinates	50°51′10″N 4°21′52″E / 50.85278°N 4.36444°E / 50.85278; 4.36444
Construction started	1968 (1968)
Completed	1982 (1982)
Renovated	2005–2008
Height
Antenna spire	174 m (571 ft)
Roof	145 m (476 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	36
Floor area	220,000 m2 (2,400,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Hugo Van Kuyck, Marcel Lambrichs and Léon Stynen

The Finance Tower (French: Tour des Finances; Dutch: Financietoren) is a skyscraper in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by the architects Hugo Van Kuyck, Marcel Lambrichs and Léon Stynen and built between 1968 and 1982. The height of the building is 145 metres (476 ft), and it has 36 floors. It is the second tallest building in Belgium after the South Tower, and has the most office space of any building in Belgium.^[1]

The Finance Tower is situated to the crossroads of the Boulevard du Jardin botanique/Kruidtuinlaan and the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat. It is served by many public transit systems, including Botanique/Kruidtuin metro station and Brussels-Central and Brussels-North railway stations.