Warsaw Spire
Main data:
Total height: 220 m
Number of floors: 50
Planned term of finishing: 2011
Designer: Jaspers & Eyers Workshop
Location: ul. Towarowa / Lucka
Till now Warsaw Trade Tower has been the only skyscraper in the western outskirts of Warsaw 'city'. But it seems that soon it will have a rival. Ghelamco, Belgian developer, plans to construct a tower of unusual shape at the plot between Towarowa, Grzybowska, Wronia and Lucka streets. Until recently Military Graphics Institute used to be located here. But this institution had huge debts and its official receiver put it up for an auction. In 2006 the plot together with buildings was purchased by Eastern Europe, a company owned by Ghelamco. The building of former books' printing house has already been demolished. Now, the construction of a skyscraper is planned on its place.
The building will have a very untypical shape. It will be a solid of elliptical section, which will narrow to the half of its height and then widen again. The skyscraper will have a double elevation, it will be surrounded with an extra, uniform glass surface. It will be 180 metres high, and together with the spires - 220 metres. Inside, office spaces will be located, and also a few shops. The total area of the building will be approximately 60 thousand square metres. On the two sides of the tower two lower buildings will be situated. Also offices will be located in them (together extra 40 thousand square metres). And in the other corner of the plot, next to the intersection of Wronia and Grzybowska streets, in the future the company plans to build another, 160-metre-high skyscraper with luxurious apartments in it.
The construction of the elliptic tower is planned to be started in 2009 and it should be finished by the end of 2011.
(C) 2001-2010 Maciej Blazejewski