Hexagone Balard | |
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![]() Hexagone Balard in 2016 | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Location | Paris |
Coordinates | 48°50′08″N 2°16′34″E / 48.83556°N 2.27611°E |
Current tenants | Ministry of the Armed Forces |
Construction started | 2012 |
Completed | 5 November 2015 |
Cost | €4.2 billion |
Owner | French Republic |
Dimensions | |
Other dimensions | 420 000 m² |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 13.5 ha |
Hexagone Balard (French pronunciation: [ɛɡzaɡɔn balaʁ]) 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 euros to build.[citation needed]
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.
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