Cheminée du Front de Seine

The Cheminée du Front-de-Seine is a chimney located in the 15th arrondissement, in the Grenelle district of Paris.

Its simple white form is unadorned except for aesthetic vents located in top of the structure.

The chimney ventilates smoke from six boilers used to produce steam from low-sulfur fuel oil, which is distributed through underground pipes to the buildings of the district for central heating and as domestic hot water.

[1] The chimney is accompanied by an aquatic garden on the roof of the boiler house, which was designed by Catherine Stahly-Mougin, the daughter of the sculptor.

In March 2013, a pair of Peregrine falcons returned in Paris for the first time in decades, in the same birdbox installed nearly 20 years before.