Why you should experience Too Hotel in Paris, France.
Too Hotel is a soaring contemporary hotel where Paris Rive Gauche's architectural experimentation, Philippe Starck interiors, panoramic hospitality, and ambitious vertical design create one of the capital's most distinctive places to stay.
Set high above the 13th Arrondissement within Jean Nouvel's Tours Duo, the hotel occupies ten elevated floors with guestrooms, wellness facilities, dining, meeting spaces, and rooftop nightlife suspended above the surrounding cityscape. Mirrored surfaces, celestial imagery, expansive glazing, sculptural furniture, and constantly changing daylight establish Philippe Starck's vision of a contemporary castle floating above Paris. Guestrooms turn the skyline into a central component of the interior, while the restaurant, spa terrace, and rooftop bar progressively increase the sense of elevation. The result is a destination where architecture, design, hospitality, and the Paris skyline become inseparable.
What you should know about Too Hotel.
Too Hotel is best known for opening on October 20, 2022 as hotelier Laurent Taïeb's four-star project occupying floors 17 through 27 of the southern Tours Duo tower, pairing architecture by Ateliers Jean Nouvel with artistic direction and interior architecture by Philippe Starck across 139 rooms and suites more than 100 meters above Paris. Starck conceived the interiors as a suspended castle combining classical references with futuristic imagery, extending that concept through guestrooms, meeting facilities on the 17th floor, a spa with an outdoor jacuzzi on a planted terrace, the TOO Restaurant inside a six-meter-high glass volume on the 25th floor, and the TOO TacTac skybar at 120 meters on the 27th floor, where its 350 square meters include a 150-square-meter terrace. The hotel emerged from a longstanding creative relationship between Taïeb and Starck that previously produced Paris hospitality projects including Bon and Kong, while the broader Tours Duo development brought together investors Ivanhoé Cambridge and Natixis Assurances, delegated project management by Hines France, development by SEMAPA, and construction leadership from BATEG, part of Vinci Construction France. The towers themselves achieved LEED Core and Shell Platinum, WELL Platinum, EFFINERGIE+, and NF Bâtiments Tertiaires HQE certification with an Exceptional-level Sustainable Building Passport, embedding Too Hotel within one of the most extensively certified high-rise developments completed in contemporary Paris.
Ateliers Jean Nouvel assembled an unusually extensive engineering consortium for Tours Duo, with Egis and Aedis responsible for structural engineering, Artelia handling building services and environmental quality, EPPAG developing the façades, AVLS addressing acoustics, MovvéO vertical circulation, and Casso & Associés fire protection, placing the hotel inside a technically complex high-rise system conceived as a unified architectural project. Philippe Starck developed the hospitality interiors around reflections, grand scale, theatrical ceilings, and uninterrupted glazing, while his six-meter-high glass cube for TOO Restaurant creates an elevated dining room whose architecture deliberately keeps the surrounding city visible throughout the space. Chef Benjamin Six now directs TOO Restaurant's cosmopolitan culinary program through dishes using miso, yuzu, shiso, sake, umeboshi, furikake, and yakiniku influences, complemented by a dedicated Pierre Hermé Paris dessert collection and breads from Paris baker Benoît Castel. Laurent Taïéb Groupe, Starck, Six, Pierre Hermé Paris, and the multidisciplinary engineering teams behind Tours Duo consequently connect architecture, interior design, gastronomy, wellness, and rooftop hospitality within a 139-room property whose character depends as much on its technical and creative collaborators as its altitude.
How to fold Too Hotel into your trip.
Too Hotel works as an afternoon and evening exploring the contemporary architecture and creative culture of Paris Rive Gauche.
Begin at Station F, where thousands of entrepreneurs occupy the converted Halle Freyssinet beneath Eugène Freyssinet's sweeping concrete structure, establishing the district's discussion between ambitious architecture and contemporary innovation before the afternoon moves toward its most vertical expression. Continue to Too Hotel, where Jean Nouvel's tower, Philippe Starck's interiors, elevated spa, panoramic restaurant, and rooftop hospitality turn that architectural story into the centerpiece of the outing high above southeastern Paris. Continue to Bibliothèque nationale de France François-Mitterrand, where Dominique Perrault's four book-shaped towers and vast sunken garden extend the exploration through another defining work of large-scale contemporary Parisian architecture beside the Seine. Conclude at Les Frigos, where former railway refrigeration warehouses now contain artists' studios, workshops, murals, and creative spaces, providing a textured finale rooted in the independent artistic culture that survived the district's dramatic reinvention. The progression moves from repurposed industrial engineering through high-rise hospitality and grand cultural architecture before concluding inside a working artistic community, revealing the creative forces that have shaped Paris Rive Gauche.
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