Treimorfa – Municipality grants its approval after 4 years
The Municipal Architectural and Urban Committee has approved the concept idea of Treimorfa (aka Skeleton). Completion of the project is planned for the year 2012.
‘It was supposed to be a very spectacular design but the end result is accommodation of the tower’s attic area’, comments Henryk Gaertner from GD&K Group, which is the co-owner of the building and the plot, after meeting in the municipality. The investors are satisfied that the decision has been finally made. After four years of attempts to have the project approved, completion of the construction has become more real than ever.
On Tuesday, the Committee, the chief architect of the city, the voivodeship conservatory officer, the president of the city Jacek Majchrowski, director of the municipal division of architecture and the representatives of the investor met to discuss the project. The Committee has chosen one out of many concepts.
‘This concept does not include any elements inspired by the history. The building has a contemporary look which has so far aroused many doubts. This is where the engagement of the Committee ends’, sums up professor Waclaw Celadyn.
There were still some comments. ‘We strongly feel that the building’s roof should not be toped in a radical way. We recommend that the roof over the public terrace on the top floor is removed’, says professor Celadyn after the meeting of the Committee.
The decision of the Committee applies not only to the Skeleton. The architects analyzed the concept of the whole complex (including the Skeleton) with impressive usable area of approx. 70 thousand square meters.
Kazimierz Bujakowski – the deputy president – was very optimistic about the meeting. ‘It is a milestone. Now the investors are obliged to prepare the building conditions application to include the suggestions of the Committee. I think than even though the building will not represent an avant-garde style, the citizens of Cracow will like it’, says Bujakowski.
The investors reveal that the city would like to emphasize the building’s entrance of the Mogilskie roundabout. Also the University of Economy will benefit from the project. ‘We will remove the fences and construct a road leading to the main university alley. The students will be finally able to move within the area without any limits’, says Szymon Duda from GD&K.
The 102,5 meter high tower with a restaurant and roof terrace will dominate over the complex. 25 meter high office buildings will be constructed of Beliny-Prażmowskiego street. 30 meter high buildings will be constructed of the University. Offices, hotel, restaurant, residential, retail and commercial area and maybe exhibition area buildings will be constructed in the front of the whole complex. Two-level underground parking area, which will accommodate 300 vehicles, will be constructed under the whole complex.
’It will be a big complex and that is why variety of functions is necessary also from the point of view of the city needs. A public access square will be constructed in front of the tower. The complex is said to look like the Rockefeller Center in New York’, says Duda.
The cost of constructing the whole complex may amount to 100 million Euro. The whole complex will be constructed in stages. The tower will be the first object to be constructed and it will be completed by 2012.