Passage Plasko

Passage Plasko ; ساختمان پلاسکو
Basic data
Place:	Jomhouri Ave, District 6, Tehran
Construction time :	1960–1962
Architectural style :	brutalism
Use / legal
Usage :	Residential and office buildings
Owner :	Mostazafan Foundation
Technical specifications
Height :	42.0 m
Floors :	17th

Passage Plasko ( Persian ساختمان پلاسکو), also known as the Plasco Building , was a skyscraper in the Iranian capital Tehran .

history

The building was erected in 1962/63 as the tallest building in Iran and was the second tallest building in the country in the 20th century. The client was the Jewish-Iranian businessman Habib Elghanian . It was named after the client's plastic manufacturer Plasko and housed residential and business premises. At street level there was a shopping center in the front of a building built in 1939.

Fire and collapse

On January 19, 2017, a fire broke out in the building, in which all visitors, residents and business people could be saved. During the extinguishing work, the building collapsed after about four hours and buried the rescue workers who had arrived, killing 30 firefighters. Authorities evacuated the neighboring embassies of the UK , Germany and Turkey during the fire .