Ušće Tower

Ušće Tower
Пословни центар Ушће
Ušće Tower in 2005
General information
Status	Complete
Location	New Belgrade, Serbia
Address	Bulevar Mihajlo Pupin 6
Coordinates	44°48′58″N 20°26′13″E / 44.81611°N 20.43694°E / 44.81611; 20.43694Coordinates: 44°48′58″N 20°26′13″E / 44.81611°N 20.43694°E / 44.81611; 20.43694
Completed	1964
Renovated	2005
Owner	MPC Holding
Height	roof 115 m (377.3 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	25
Floor area	25,000 m2 (269,100 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	7 (+ 1 freight)
Design and construction
Architect	Mihailo Janković
Main contractor	European Construction
Website
www.uscetower.rs

Ušće Tower (Serbian Cyrillic: Ушће, meaning "confluence") is a 25-story mixed use skyscraper located at 6 Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard in the New Belgrade municipality of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is currently the tallest building in Serbia, and the second-tallest freestanding structure, after the Avala Tower.

Built in 1964, the glass building overlooks the confluence Danube and Sava rivers from the New Belgrade side. It was originally 105 meters tall and used as the headquarters of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in the former Yugoslavia, which broke apart in 1990.

Ušće was frequently leased out to commercial interests until April 21, 1999, when it was badly damaged by successive NATO air-strikes as part of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Beginning in 2003, the tower was reconstructed, including a 2-floor increase (141 m / 462 ft in total) in height, with the addition of a 26m antenna, which in strict architectural terms does not count as structural height, however, in structural height would actually be 115 m or 377 ft. The reconstructed tower is now being rented out to tenants.

Ušće Tower was built in 1964 as the headquarters of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. The original building was 105 meters tall. Even today many people still call it "CK", which is the acronym for Centralni Komitet (Central Committee). During the "golden years" of Yugoslavia the lights were left partially turned on during the night to spell out "TITO", after president Josip Broz Tito.

In 1979, the Tower became a target of Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked American Airlines Flight 293 with the intention of crashing the plane into the building.