High-rise buildings in Warsaw
©2005-2006 by Michel Zacharz
Warsaw City Centre as seen from the Aleja Jana Pawła II
Warsaw is said to be, alongside with Frankfurt, London and Paris, one of the "tallest" cities in Europe. Its tallest structure, the Palace of Culture and Science, is the 4th tallest building in the European Union and the sixth tallest in Europe as a whole. New skyscrapers emerge every year, that's why Warsaw is called sometimes "the biggest construction site in Europe". Below is the list of the six tallest skyscrapers in Warsaw.
Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki)
- Built in 1955
- Height: 231m
- Hosts the second-highest clock in the world
- Architect: Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev
Warsaw Trade Tower
- Built in 1999
- Height: 208m
- Features one of the fastest elevators in Europe (7 meters per second)
- Architect: RTKL Associates Inc., Mejewski Wyszynski Hermanowicz S.C. Architekci
Rondo 1-B
- Construction end: 2006
- Height: 192m
- Architect: A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc., Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (London) LLP, Azo Sp. z o.o.
InterContinental Warsaw
- Built in 2003
- Height: 164m
- Houses the highest indoor swimming pool in Europe
- It is the highest 5-star hotel in the world
- Architect: Tadeusz Spychała
Warsaw Financial Center
- Built in 1999
- Height: 144m
- Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc., Biuro Projektów Architektury J&J Sp. z o.o.
Centrum LIM
- Built in 1989
- Height: 140m
- The building's facade was scaled by Alain Robert in 1998
- LIM stands for Lot (Polish Arilines), Illbau GmbH (an Austrian construction company) and Marriott International
- Architect: Jerzy Skrzypczak, Andrzej Bielobradek, Krzysztof Stefanski
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