Remember this post from last year about Bucharest’s tallest buildings?
Well, we decided to develop the idea and write a feature on the tallest buildings in Bucharest for the next edition of Bucharest In Your Pocket. We will post a link to the feature here when it is completed.
Anyway, having researched the city’s tallest buildings a little more thoroughly this time, the final top ten we have come up with is in fact slightly different to the original list.
Bucharest Tower Centre (120 metres)
Elevator Test Tower (114 metres)
Casa Scanteii (104 metres)
Asmita Gardens (90 metres)
BRD Tower (87 metres)
Casa Poporului (86 metres)
Bucharest Financial Plaza (83 metres)
Nusco Tower (80 metres)
InterContinental (77 metres)
Cathedral Plaza (75 metres)
Entries not present before include: Asmita Gardens (a residential development of seven blocks, the tallest of which is 90 metres high. Read about its fate here); the Nusco Tower in Pipera (home of Oracle and Volksbank); the controversial Cathedral Plaza, which, though completed in 2010, is currently empty while a long and complicated legal case (the project’s developer has had to go to the European Court of Human Rights) waits to be resolved.
The completed but empty Cathedral Plaza. You can guess where it gets its name from
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The tallest U/C building at present is Floreasca Sky Tower at 137m (P+37E). It’s advancing really well.
As for the Elevator Test Tower, I heard that Țiriac is looking to demolish and build a 150m tower on its site.
Yes I know about the Sky Tower, that will go in the guide in a ‘Coming Soon’ box.
As for the test tower, I hope it survives. It is unique and something of a gem. It has a certain 1930s Italian railway station chic to it.
Tell us about #2, sounds intriguing.
It is that strange, slim, grey building you see when arriving at Gara de Nord: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnul_de_testat_ascensoare_(Bucure%C8%99ti)
More about it here: http://www.frontpress.ro/?p=1183
as Turnul IFMA
The building is also known (among old timers like me
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