- Zagrepčanka
Zagrepčanka is a business tower located in
Zagreb ,Croatia . The address is Savska 41, on the Savska and Vukovarska intersection.Technical info
Zagrepčanka is ranked 1st by height (1st when you include the antenna) in Croatia. It is 94.6 meters (310 feet) tall, and it has 26 levels.There is a
radio mast on the roof, which increases the height of the tower to 109 meters (363 feet). There are two underground levels, used for parking spaces.It's served by six elevators.Theskyscraper is a part of the complex, which includes a lowrise 3 level business objects, an art installation, and afountain .The tower is comprised of three parts. The center part has 26 floors, the west wing has 21 floor, and the east wing has 19 floors. The
facade is derived in whitemarble , and a reflective greenglass . There are 23 three-apses protrusions, which run from the 25th to 26th floor. The center wing has 24 support beams, and the side wings have 23 beams. The side wings are hyperbolically curved over the vertical axis.History
The tower was built in 1976 by architects Slavko Jelinek and Berislav Vinković.
About ten years after the completion, heavy marble tiles started to fall off from the facade. This was due to the low-quality material that was ordered for the construction. Because of the danger, the employees had to enter the tower through an improvised
tunnel , made out of the wooden planks andsteel bars. This unfortunate feature produced a nickname for it, "The hells tower". The renovation started only recently. By now the west facade is completely fixed, and the works on the rest of the tower are starting soon.Zagrepčanka was surpassed in (structural) height by the
Eurotower (97.8 meters) in 2006. But it still holds the No.1 place in the real height (109 meters), and it has the Croatia's highestoffice .See also
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List of tallest buildings in Croatia
*Cibona Tower
*Eurotower
*HOTO Tower
*Mamutica
*Zagrebtower
*Zagreb TV Tower
*Tower 123
*Sky Office Tower
*Chromos Tower
*Vjesnik Tower Views of Zagrepčanka
External links
* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=149412 Zagrepčanka on Emporis]
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