Tallest Building in Serbia: Avala Tower ad Usce Tower
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Last year, I received two postcards and two banknotes in an envelope from Jelena of Serbia---thank you so much. Yesterday, I posted about their Cathedral of Saint Sava and now I will be sharing Serbia's tallest building AVALA TOWER but also in the postcard is the second tallest building USCE TOWER.
The Avala Tower is a 204.5 m (671 ft) tall telecommunication tower located on Avala mountain near Belgrade, Serbia. Originally constructed in 1961 and was completed in 1965. It was destroyed in NATO bombardment of Serbia on 29 April 1999. On 21 December 2006, the reconstruction of Avala Tower commenced and the tower was officially opened at a ceremony attended by the highest state officials on 21 April 2010. It is currently the tallest structure in Serbia and the Balkan region. Antenna spire was 204.5 m (671ft), floor count was 38 and has 2 elevators. Architect of the Avala Towe wereUglješa Bogutović and Slobodan Janjić.
While the second tallest was a Ušće Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, and the second-tallest building overall, after the Avala tower. It was the tallest skyscraper in the Balkans until the construction of the Avaz Twist Tower in Sarajevo. Built in 1964, the glass building overlooks the confluence Danube and Sava rivers from the New Belgrade side. It was originally 105 meters tall and used as the headquarters of the Central Committee of the League of Communists in the former Yugoslavia. Ušće was frequently leased out to commercial interests until April 21, 1999, when it was badly damaged by successive NATO air-strikes as part of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Beginning in 2003, the tower was reconstructed, including a 2-floor increase(141 m / 462 ft in total) in height, with the addition of a 26m antenna, which in strict architectural terms does not count as structural height, however, in structural height would actually be 115 m or 377 ft. The new tower, Ušće Office Tower 1, is now being rented out to tenants. The Ušće Complex, a modern business center, is also due to be completed within the next three years.Architect was Mihailo Jankovic, European Construction as the contractor and MPC Holding was the developer!
Source: Wikipedia
While the second tallest was a Ušće Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, and the second-tallest building overall, after the Avala tower. It was the tallest skyscraper in the Balkans until the construction of the Avaz Twist Tower in Sarajevo. Built in 1964, the glass building overlooks the confluence Danube and Sava rivers from the New Belgrade side. It was originally 105 meters tall and used as the headquarters of the Central Committee of the League of Communists in the former Yugoslavia. Ušće was frequently leased out to commercial interests until April 21, 1999, when it was badly damaged by successive NATO air-strikes as part of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Beginning in 2003, the tower was reconstructed, including a 2-floor increase(141 m / 462 ft in total) in height, with the addition of a 26m antenna, which in strict architectural terms does not count as structural height, however, in structural height would actually be 115 m or 377 ft. The new tower, Ušće Office Tower 1, is now being rented out to tenants. The Ušće Complex, a modern business center, is also due to be completed within the next three years.Architect was Mihailo Jankovic, European Construction as the contractor and MPC Holding was the developer!
Source: Wikipedia
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