Centrum LIM

Centrum LIM

The Centrum LIM skyscraper was built in 1989 in the center of Warsaw, Poland, by LIM Joint Venture Sp. Ltd., a consortium of three partners: LOT, the Polish Airlines, ILBAU GmbH, the Austrian construction company, and Marriott International, the operator of the hotel chain. In 1998, ILBAU sold its share to SGS GmbH.

The locals simply call the facility "the Marriott". The building quickly gained prestige and popularity, in part by being among the first five-star hotels in Poland.

The designers were Jerzy Skrzypczak, Andrzej Bielobradek, and Krzysztof Stefanski. The building in the forms of an international style. The facade is a dark green color, and is adjacent to the Oxford Tower. The building has white edges (illuminated at night with bright, white light) as well as two floors that form dark horizontal stripes, one half-way up the structure and the other at the top, that serve as utility areas.

At the two lower floors, there is a shopping center known as Gallery LIM. It includes about 40 shops, cafes and restaurants, and the LOT ticket office. Office space for rent are located in the lower part of the tower (between floors 5 and 19), and then from the middle floors of the building to the top are the hotel rooms. The building also houses a casino. The Marriott is located on floors 20 and above, where there are 523 rooms and 95 suites. On the top floor is a presidential suite. Each room has air conditioning and satellite links. Marriott Hotel guests have at their disposal a sauna, swimming pool, conference facilities, restaurants, and nine bars. Without its 30-meter antenna on the roof, the building is a 140 meters tall.

The building is connected by subway to Warsaw Centralna station.

There is a proposal for a 71-story tower to be built on the site currently occupied by the lower western wing of the building.

Trivia

• The top two floors of the center there is a cafe LIM Panorama Club with one of the highest publicly accessible views of the entire Warsaw.
• In 1999, the famous French climber Alain Robert climbed the Marriott Hotel without protection or permission. In the same year the same feat was completed by Polish photographer and climber Dawid Kaszlikowski, while 10 years later, on 22 April 2009, the building was scaled by Bartholomew Opiela.
• In the years in 1994 - 1996 on the second floor of the basement was Maloka BBS.

References

• Skyscraper Page

Coordinates: 52°13′39″N 21°00′17″E / 52.2275°N 21.00472°E / 52.2275; 21.00472