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Floreasca City Center

Floreasca City Center
Floreasca SkyTower Bucharest.jpg
Floreasca SkyTower, November 2012
General information
Status Complete
Type office, conference, restaurant, retail
Location Barbu Văcărescu Street, Bucharest, Romania
Coordinates 44°28′42″N 26°6′14″E / 44.47833°N 26.10389°E / 44.47833; 26.10389Coordinates: 44°28′42″N 26°6′14″E / 44.47833°N 26.10389°E / 44.47833; 26.10389
Construction started 2008
Completed 2013
Opening April 2011 (FCC Office)
October 10, 2012 (SkyTower, Office Wing)
October 2013 (Promenada mall)
Cost US$ 250,000,000
Owner Raiffeisen Property Holding International
Height
Roof 137 m (449 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 37 (5 basement floors)
Floor area 214,000 m2 (2,300,000 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators 10
Design and construction
Main contractor Octagon Contracting & Engineering S.A.

Floreasca City Center is a multi-functional center with a shopping and entertainment complex as well as two office buildings in Bucharest. Floreasca City Center consists of a center for shopping, entertainment and business. The gross area amounts to approx. 214,000 m² with rentable area of approx. 120,000 m² and more than 2,000 parking places. It is the tallest building in Romania, with shopping-mall, entertainment, retail and offices. Located in Floreasca, an urban district and residential area in the northeast of Bucharest, SkyTower is close to another Raiffeisen evolution project, the Oracle Tower.

Funding obtained from Raiffeisen Bank International was about €95.5-million. The project was constructed in stages.

Located between two of Bucharest's arterial roads, Calea Floreasca and Barbu Văcărescu street, SkyTower is the second office building is designed as a high-rise building with a height of 137 m. With 37 upper floors and 5 basement floors (gross floor area approx. 78,000 m²), this Tower is the highest building in Bucharest. A restaurant and conference rooms are situated in the two uppermost floors. The facade of the Tower has an oblong structure over 4 floors with transparent, translucent and opaque areas. In the uppermost floors the facade opens up and becomes entirely transparent.

The ground floor features a generous entrance lobby, hosting reception and security desk and provides access to the upper floors via the security filter accessible by electronic card. The vertical access is ensured by ten elevators, out of which five are low-rise (up to the 18th floor) and five are high-rise (up to the 36th floor).

Each regular office floor is designed to host open space offices with afferent toilets and connections ready for installing the kitchenettes, accommodating up to 60 working stations, benefiting from a specially designed meeting area.

On June 6, 2012, SkyTower has reached the 36th floor and became the tallest building in Romania. The topping out ceremony was held on June 28, 2012.


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