TP S.A. Tower
The TP S. A. Tower (also: Twarda Tower ) is an office skyscraper in Warsaw. It is located in the downtown district to the Ulica Twarda 14/16 and is named after its main users, the Polish telephone company Telekomunikacja Polska named.
History
Originally the building of the commissioned on 1 August 1997 Contractors PIA Piasecki SA should to be completed by 30 June 2002. Due to financial problems of the general contractor experienced delays and hence to a change in the construction company. PORR Polska SA took over the completion after signing a contract at the beginning of 2003. In December 2003, the skyscraper could be handed over to the investor. The building was designed by architects offices Apar project and Arca A & C. It seems to consist of nested cylinders and cubes. For the statics TMJ Tomasz Ziętała was responsible. The tower has 30 top - five and underground levels, thus having a 16.5 meter deep basement and a 128 meter high building construction. In total, approximately 50,000 square feet of space, of which nearly 42,000 are available arisen. Until the construction of the Intercontinental Warsaw TP SA was Tower the building with the deepest basement of Warsaw. The lining of the object consisting mainly of glass, at the bottom of polished stone slabs were assembled. It was an attempt to build on top of the building a viewing platform, as that would have been located on the 31st floor of the Palace of Culture around 10 meters higher. The tower would have - so you can be a tourist attraction - even with the use of the inclined elevator.
In addition to the office floors in the building, there are also some apartments, two restaurants, a bar, a large telephone exchange for 60,000 compounds was the main user installed.
In 2008 sold the TP S. A. the building, however, remained tenants. Buyers of this and two other TP S. A. unused office building in Warsaw was the Danish investment group Baltic Property Trust Optima, which paid EUR 168 million for the three objects. The TP S. A. then began with the planning for 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 over many Warsaw office real estate companies of the Company are to be accommodated together. This facility will be built at the Jerozolimskie Avenue 160 under the Bouygues Immobilier Developer and was acquired in November 2011 by the Qatar Holding LCC. In September 2012, the European Capital LLP TP SA took over Tower.
Special
The TP SA Tower has some structural features. So it was built because of the narrowness of the to tilling the land in the " top-down " technique of in the cellar - like upper floors of a base plate, occur simultaneously. He was the first skyscraper in Warsaw, where this method was applied. What is striking is the on the south facade obliquely upward current, glass elevator. He moves with a speed of 2.5 meters per second on a wedge-shaped, style similar to the building face. In addition to this elevator communicate seven elevators in the building.
On the roof is - even from evacuation reasons in case of fire - a helipad, so no antenna system could be built here. Another oddity: The building has not as such designated 13th floor. At the request of TP SA staff follows the floor 12 directly the 14th floor.
During the excavation a 580 kg heavy artillery shell from World War II was found at a depth of 8 meters. In the Polish TV series " 39 i pół " ( Comedy of the station TVN ), the tower served as the seat of the Fester company.