Esplanada City Center

Infobox Skyscraper
building_name=Esplanada City Center


year_started built=2009
year_finished=2017
antenna_spire= ~m to ft|250|abbr=yes|spell=0|precision=0|wiki=no (the highest of the skyscrapers)
roof= ~m to ft|210|abbr=yes|spell=0|precision=0|wiki=no (the highest of the skyscrapers)
floor_count= 70 [cite news]
groundbreaking= 2009
opening= 2017 (est.)
floor_area= convert|880000|m2|sqft|abbr=on|0
developer=flagicon|Hungary TriGránit
architect=flagicon|United States Murphy & Jahn

Esplanada City Center is the name of a future multifunctional city center in Bucharest situated on the Unirii Boulevard not far from the Palace of the Parliament. Esplanada will provide shopping, living, working and leisure functions integrated into a mixed-use urban community.

The Romanian State has approved the Esplanada City Center Project. Trigranit will start construction works on the Esplanada Project in the second half of 2009. The government has approved this project by allowing a Private-Public Partnership. The entire project will become property of the Romanian State after 49 years of partnership, at the end of the partnership Trigranit will have the option to buy the complex.

Description

The entire project is visioned like a small city with shopping, living, working and leisure functions integrated into one enormous complex developed on an area of 107,140 sq m.

The project includes 8 skyscrapers from 30 to 70 floors, a Guggenheim Museum, a shopping mall and many green areas.

The tallest of the skyscrapers will have a roof height of 210 m (250 with the spire). There will be also a unique building shaped in the form of the romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi's Endless Column

The whole building complex including the mall will have a price tag of around US$ 4.2 billion and it will be paid by the Hungarian developers TriGránit and the Rothschild family.

ee also

*TriGránit

References

External links

* [http://www.trigranit.com/index.php?p=hirek&id=239&page=1 Esplanada hits the final stage]
* [http://www.thediplomat.ro/econ_news_0508.php#Romania Diplomat Bucharest]