InterContinental Warsaw
The InterContinental is a five-star hotel in Warsaw . It is located in the business district of the downtown district . The building that defines the cityscape was constructed between 2001 and 2003 and is the tallest hotel in Poland and the third tallest in Europe.
architecture
The address of the hotel is ulica Emilii Plater 49 and it is surrounded by Śliska and Sosnowa streets. In the immediate vicinity are the Palace of Culture , the apartment buildings Złota 44 and Cosmopolitan Twarda 2/4 , the Złote Tarasy shopping center , the central train station and the Warsaw Financial Center . The Austrian team of architects worked under Tadeusz Spychała . The foundation of the hotel is the deepest of all Warsaw skyscrapers, it reaches a depth of 20.7 meters. The northeast corner of the building consists of a 20-story pillar. The height to the roof is 154 meters, with superstructures the building reaches 164 meters. There are 45 floors above ground. The usable area is 45,500 square meters, the total area 57,500 square meters. The hotel is equipped with 326 guest rooms, 77 suites with the option of self-catering and twelve conference rooms. It also has a ballroom, two bars, two restaurants, an E. Wedel chocolate fountain , sauna, fitness club, spa and solarium. Europe's highest swimming pool is located around 150 meters above ground on the 43rd and 44th floors - with a view over Warsaw. The five-storey underground car park has space for 175 vehicles. The construction of the building cost more than 100 million euros.
history
The first preliminary construction work began in 1997. The builders were Warimpex Finanz und Beteiligungs-AG and UBM Realitätenentwicklung Aktiengesellschaft together with the InterContinental Group and the general contractor, Porr . First of all, the old structure had to be torn down. The most important Polish jazz club, the Akwarium, also fell victim to the demolition. Residents of the surrounding apartment blocks protested against the construction project, they feared that the high-rise would cast shadows. Even the offer of the investor to renovate the affected buildings at his own expense could not satisfy the opponents of the project. Finally, a solution was found, to which the changed conception of the high-rise building with the free-standing northeast corner by using pillars, which enables the affected apartments to be exposed to sunlight, also contributed.
During the construction phase, a music video by the Polish hip-hop bands “Wzgórze Ya-Pa 3” and “Warszafski Deszcz” was shot on the site. The hotel opened on April 23, 2004. The hotel has received multiple awards - it received the EMEA Market Performance Award 2005 and the EMEA Quality Award in the same year . In 2007, the co-shareholders Warimpex and UBM took over the InterContinental Group's shares in the property. In August 2009 the singer Madonna was a guest of the hotel for a performance in Warsaw during her Sticky & Sweet Tour .
References and comments
- ↑ Higher hotels in Europe are the Hotel Ukraina in Moscow and the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm
- ↑ The UBM Reality Development AG is an Austrian real estate company and one of the longest listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange Companies
- ↑ a b according to Press release UBM and Warimpex increase stake in Hotel InterContinental Warsaw ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Warimpex from 2007
- ↑ according to Article (pseudonym) Madonna jest już w Polsce. Mieszka w hotelu InterContinental at Gazeta.pl on August 14, 2009 (in Polish)
See also
- List of hotels in Warsaw
- List of high-rise buildings in Warsaw
- List of high-rise buildings in Poland
Web links
- Hotel website
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 56.8 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 9.2 ″ E