ZÅ‚ote Tarasy
The Złote Tarasy (Polish for " Golden Terraces " ) are a multifunctional complex in the center of Warsaw, next to the shopping center also includes two office buildings and an entertainment and fitness area. The award-winning plant was opened after five years of construction in February 2007 and was the most expensive real estate project in the Polish capital in the 21st century. The official address is Złotą 59
Location
The plant covers an area which is surrounded on three sides by roads: the John Paul II Avenue, the small - Złotą and Emilia Plater Street. Adjacent are located in the northern part of the Daniel Libeskind building Złotą 44 and south of Warsaw's central train station. The train station is at ground level connected by bus and underground through a tunnel connection between the respective initial basements with the complex. The Palace of Culture is located approximately 300 meters north-east.
Building
The concept of the Złote Tarasy was created by the architectural firm The Jerde Partnership. The total investment includes 225,000 square feet of floor space. The shopping center includes around 200 shops and restaurants on an area of 63,500 square meters. Among the restaurant there is a two-story Hard Rock Cafe with an area of 850 square meters and can accommodate 300 guests and the first Burger King of Poland. The chain operated by the multi-cinema cinema complex consists of 8 Kinosäalen with around 2,500 seats. The two integrated office building lumen and Skylight offer 45,000 square feet of office space and up to 105 meters and 30 stories high. The four-storey underground car park offers parking for up to 1600 vehicles.
Landmark and static demanding is the glass roof of the shopping area. It consists of 4700 individual glass elements, extending into waveform over about half of the overall system and thus spans the central courtyard of a terraced -scale, multi-storey shopping center. The system is designed to nature using sandstone, granite, plants and water elements.
The total cost of the building amounted to around 500 million euros. The plant or its architects were awarded the MAPIC Plaza Retail Future Project Award and the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Award. The building was presented at the Discovery Channel before completion.
Architectural History
The emergence of Złote Tarasy goes back to a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Warsaw and the developer in 1995. The construction was accompanied by many problems and the completion of the plant has been delayed several times. The building was erected by the Złote Tarasy Sp z oo, a joint venture company between the majority shareholder, ING Real Estate and the municipality Warszawa Śródmieście. A Polish subsidiary of the Swedish construction company Skanska has been engaged as general contractor.
Construction took place in late 2002. In 2004, the construction work had to be interrupted for several months, as a supposedly environmentally supportive Association ( Stowarzyszenie Przyjazne Miasto) as well as members of the Żółkowski family, who owned the plot before the Second World War, had complained against the building. After this procedure in favor of the development company had been decided the construction in 2005 could be continued. The originally planned completion date in the fall of 2005 could not be met. As a result of litigation and the construction was halted in the city wanted to sell in the fall of 2004, their share in the development company for 57 million zloty to the partner. In 2005 it came under the multi-screen cinema project to a further delay in construction and in 2006 led to construction problems to yet another postponement of the completion date. In February 2007, the shopping center was finally opened. The Mayor of Warsaw, Hanna Gronkiewicz -Waltz, recognized the importance of investing for the redesign of the environment and the creation of around 2,000 jobs in her speech at the opening.
Current owners of the complex are Rodamco Europe BV and ING Real Estate Asset Management.