TP SA Tower

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View of the TP SA high-rise from the south; The elevator, which rises at an angle from the building, and the logo of the main user on the top of the building are clearly recognizable

The TP SA Tower (also: Twarda Tower ) is a high-rise office building in Warsaw . It is located in the inner city district at Ulica Twarda 14/16 and is named after its main user, the Polish telephone company Telekomunikacja Polska .

history

Originally, the building should be completed by the construction company PIA Piasecki SA commissioned on August 1, 1997 by June 30, 2002. Due to financial problems of the general contractor, there were delays and as a result the construction company changed. The PORR took over the completion of signing a contract at the beginning of 2003. In December 2003, was the high-rise to the investor are passed. The building was designed by architects from Apar-Projekt and Arca A&C . It seems to consist of cylinders and cubes nested inside one another. TMJ Tomasz Ziętała was responsible for the statics . The tower has 30 floors above ground and five underground floors, which means that it has a 16.5 meter deep basement and a 128 meter high building. In total, around 50,000 square meters of space were created, of which just under 42,000 can be used. Until the InterContinental Warsaw was built, the TP SA Tower was the building with the deepest basement in Warsaw. The cladding of the object consists mostly of glass panes, in the lower area polished stone slabs were mounted. There were considerations to erect a viewing platform on the roof of the building that would have been around 10 meters higher than the one on the 31st floor of the Kulturpalast . The tower could have become a tourist attraction - even with the use of the inclined elevator.

In addition to the office floors, there are also a few apartments, two restaurants and a bar in the building. The main user also installed a large switchboard for 60,000 connections.

In 2008 TP SA sold the building but remained a tenant. The buyer of this and two other office buildings in Warsaw used by TP SA was the Danish investment group Baltic Property Trust Optima , which paid EUR 168 million for the three properties. The TP SA then began planning the construction of a large office complex under the name "Miasteczko TP" (also called "Miasteczko Orange", German: TP-city or Orange City ) in which the distributed many Warsaw office real estate companies of the company together should be accommodated. This facility is being built at Aleje Jerozolimskie 160 under the developer Bouygues Immobilier and was acquired by Qatar Holding LCC in November 2011 . In September 2012 Europa Capital LLP took over the TP SA Tower .

particularities

The TP SA Tower has some structural features. Because of the narrowness of the plot of land to be built on, it was built using the “top-down” technique, in which the basement and upper floors are created simultaneously from a floor slab. It was the first skyscraper in Warsaw to use this method. The glass elevator running diagonally upwards on the south facade is striking. It moves at a speed of 2.5 meters per second on a wedge-shaped nose leaning against the building. In addition to this elevator, there are seven other elevators in the building.

There is a helicopter landing pad on the roof - also for evacuation reasons in the event of a fire - which is why no antenna system could be installed here. Another curiosity: the building does not have a 13th floor designated as such. At the request of TP SA employees, floor 12 is directly followed by the 14th floor.

During the excavation work, an artillery shell weighing 580 kilograms from the Second World War was found at a depth of 8 meters . In the Polish television series "39 ​​i pół" ( TVN comedy ) the tower served as the headquarters of the Fester company .

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b according to Information at PolskaNiezwykla.pl
  2. ↑ according to Information from Wieżowce Warszawy (see web links)
  3. ↑ according to Michał Wojtczu, Twarda Tower ma kolejnego właściciela at Gazeta.pl (Warszawa) on September 14, 2012 (in Polish, accessed October 27, 2012)
  4. ↑ according to Michał Wojtczuk, Katarczycy kupili siedzibę TP SA on Wyborcza.biz from December 1, 2011 (in Polish, accessed October 27, 2012)
  5. ↑ according to Information on the website ( Europa Capital acquires Twarda Tower, Warsaw ) ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of September 3, 2012 des (in English, accessed October 27, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europacapital.com

See also

Web links

Commons : TP SA Tower  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • TP SA Tower at Wieżowce Warszawy (in English, accessed October 26, 2012)
  • TP SA Tower in the Emporis database (accessed October 20, 2012)

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 4 ″  N , 20 ° 59 ′ 58 ″  E