Plac Unii
Plac Unii is a multifunctional building complex currently under construction in Warsaw . The facility will be built adjacent to the eponymous Plac Unii Lubelskiej on the border of the city districts of Śródmieście and Mokotów . The building complex, which has a roughly triangular floor plan, is surrounded by Ludwika Waryńskiego , Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego and Puławska streets . The cost of construction will be over 500 million zlotys .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, the site was the terminus of a narrow-gauge railway that led from here to Piaseczno and Góra Kalwaria ( Kolej Wilanowska ). In the 1930s, this line was partially closed and the station at Plac Unii Lubelskiej closed . A skyscraper was supposed to be built here before the Second World War . This 70 meter high tower was to become part of the planned "Marshall Piłsudski Quarter" in the area of Pole Mokotowskie and the tallest building in Warsaw at the time. The plans came from Bohdan Pniewski . The outbreak of war prevented the realization.
In 1962 a supermarket was built on this site. The first self-service shop in Warsaw operated under the brand “Supersam” and was housed in a striking, modernist building. Its conception came from a team of architects under Jerzy Hryniewiecki . The hall was demolished in 2006; the plan to build the unique building, which is valued by the Warsaw population, failed because the individual building elements were in a poor state of preservation.
Plac Unii building complex
The design for the new building comes from the architects Kuryłowicz & Associates under the later failed Stefan Kuryłowicz . In 2007 he won first prize in the competition carried out with the support of the architects' association SARP . The design of the project, especially the central tower, was inspired by one of the first New York skyscrapers, the Flatiron Building .
The project is supported by a cooperation between two companies - the international project developer Liebrecht & Wood and the Polish real estate company BBI Development NFI SA Juvenes , which has been operating since 1995. The financing (EUR 105 million with a top-up option) is provided by Bank Pekao SA . Construction work began at the end of 2010. Warbud SA was commissioned with the civil engineering; this work was completed in April 2012. With a depth of 53 meters, the double-walled walls set in civil engineering are among the deepest walls of this type in Warsaw. Around 170,000 square meters of excavation had to be moved for foundation and civil engineering . The company was later able to prevail in the tender for the surface development.
ING Polska will be the main tenant of the office tower . As the future largest tenant of the “C” office building, Dalkia Polska SA signed a seven-year lease.
architecture
The complex will consist of three buildings connected by a glass roof. A 15,000 square meter shopping mall will be located in three basement floors (−1, 0 and +1) . The floors above are intended for office use. The glass roof will span the shopping area at a height of 30 meters.
The striking, roughly centered 90-meter-high, 21-storey office tower (“A”) with 24,000 square meters of usable space will be called the “ING Tower” after its tenant ING Polska . Buildings “B” and “C” will each be 6 storeys high and offer 11,500 and almost 6,000 square meters of office space, respectively. Parking spaces for 800 cars will be available in a 3-storey underground car park.
See also
Web links
- Plac Unii bei Wieżowce Warszawy (in English, accessed October 28, 2012)
- Investor's website (accessed October 28, 2012)
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 21 ° 1 ′ 11.3 ″ E