Babka Tower () is a residential and office skyscraper in the city of Warsaw, Poland. It is located at 80 John Paul II Avenue, in the neighbourhood of Muranów within the Downtown district. Designed by the architecture firm JEMS Architekci, it was completed in 2001. The building has 28 storeys, with a total height of , and with a height to the roof measuring . It has a total floor area of . The building predominantly consists of luxury apartments, with 196 suites in total, also featuring office and service spaces, as well as housing some of the facilities of the VIZJA University.
Name The building was named after the nearby Radosław Group of the Home Army Roundabout, which, until 2001, was known as Babka Roundabout (). The Polish word babka translates to "sandcastle", and the name from a large pile of sand which was stored in the place of the current roundabout in the 1950s.
History Babka Tower was designed by the architecture firm of JEMS Architekci, and financed by the company Echo Investment. It was constructed between 1998 and 2001, and upon its completion, with its total architectural height being , it became the tallest residential building in Poland, and the first residential and third overall skyscraper in Poland to surpass , though it height to the roof only measures . It retained the titled of the tallest residential building until 2004, when Łucka City in Warsaw was constructed.Marta Leśniakowska: Architektura w Warszawie 1989–2001. Warsaw: Arkada Pracownia Historii Sztuki, 2002, p. 96. ISBN 83-908950-5-6.
Design and characteristics
Babka Tower is located at 80 John Paul II Avenue. The building is divided into two parts, the lower and wider segment with 12 storyes, and a tower with 28 storyes. It has a total height of , and its height to the roof measures , featuring a courtyard in the middle. Additionally, it has four underground storyes, which feature a car park with 675 parking spaces. The building has a total floor area of . It predominantly consists of consists of luxurious residential apartments, with 185 in the core and 114 in the tower. Its lower segments are include office and service spaces. The building also include an indoor swimming pool accessible for the inhabitants.
The Babka Tower houses some of the facilities of the VIZJA University, as well as the monastery of the Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
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