Prague as from a plane. Take a look at the tallest skyscraper in the metropolis
From here you can see perhaps all the cracks of the district, in good weather and the outlines of the distant mountains. The City Tower is 109 meters high, has twenty-seven floors above ground and three underground. The Aureole restaurant will be taken to the Aureole restaurant on the last floor in fifteen seconds.
At the time, the tallest building in the country began in 1983, and when completed, it was to serve Czechoslovak radio, which would thus report to Czechoslovak television. The construction took an incredible two decades, during which time the regime fell and the radio found that it did not need such generosity. Buyers of the concrete skeleton found and in a few years.
It took years, the torso was not built and completed. All that remained was the load-bearing skeleton and reinforced concrete platforms of the individual floors. The famous architect Richard Meier took part in the new design. It was done in 2007.
Glass reference to cubism
Meier’s change was to fit the skyscraper between its existing old buildings – the Panorama Hotel and the City Empiria.
The individual spaces and vistas follow each other so that they can surprise and sweat both users and visitors. The buildings are neighbors, not on a whim, but because they look at each other, and all together form an understandable whole, Richard Meier talks about his design in the book The Way Up – City Tower.
The crack of viewsHe usually looked at the city and its surroundings |
The building was inaugurated in 2008, twenty-five years after construction began.
According to Meier, the western side of the City Tower, which folds to form an imaginary arc, symbolically refers to Czech Cubism. 30,530 m2 of glass fell on the complete glass façade.
The list of the tallest buildings in the Czech Republic was maintained by the City Tower skyscraper until 2013, when it was moved to the AZ Tower in Brno with its 111 meters. According to some definitions, all buildings over 100 meters are considered to be skyscrapers.
It will be the next highest residential building V Tower, which grows to a height of 104 meters first in the neighborhood City Tower (more about these buildings here).