1 Ilica Street
| 1 Ilica Street | |
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| Neboder u Ilici | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Office building |
| Location | 1 Ilica Street, Zagreb, Croatia |
| Coordinates | 45°48′46″N 15°58′34″E / 45.81278°N 15.97611°ECoordinates: 45°48′46″N 15°58′34″E / 45.81278°N 15.97611°E |
| Construction started | 1957 |
| Completed | 1958 |
| Opening | 22 August 1959 |
| Owner | Frankopan Nekretnine |
| Height | |
| Roof | 70 m (230 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 16 |
| Floor area | 5,600 m2 (60,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Slobodan Jovičić Josip Hitil Ivan Žuljević |
1 Ilica Street (Croatian: Neboder u Ilici, Ilički neboder, meaning "Skyscraper in Ilica") is a building located in Ilica Street overlooking Ban Jelačić Square in the Lower Town area of Zagreb, Croatia. In Croatian, the building is colloquially known under the generic title Neboder (lit. "Skyscraper") as it was the first business skyscraper in the country.
The building, designed by the trio of Slobodan Jovičić, Josip Hitil and Ivan Žuljević, was built between 1957 and 1958 and was officially inaugurated on 22 August 1959, when Većeslav Holjevac was mayor of Zagreb. It was the tallest building in Yugoslavia at the time of its completion, and it was the first building in the country which featured an aluminium façade (aluminium sheets for the building were manufactured at the Utva aircraft factory in Pančevo). Other notable high-rises built earlier in Zagreb include the nine-story modernist Löwy Building built in 1933 and the so-called Wooden Skyscraper designed by Drago Ibler - but since they were both residential buildings which resembled skyscrapers in design but not in function or size, the sixteen-story 1 Ilica Street is regarded as the first "bona fide skyscraper" built in Zagreb and Yugoslavia.
The principal investors were Končar and Ferimport, two large state-owned companies. The building later housed Ferimport offices, but it also featured an observation deck and a restaurant on its top floor (later converted into a short-lived disco club in the early 1990s) and a small shopping arcade which was built around the base of the building, connecting Ilica, Gajeva, Bogovićeva and Petrićeva streets. The observation deck was open to the public for decades, but it was fenced by security railings in 1967 after a man committed suicide by jumping off it and landing on a woman passing by, who was also killed.
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