Floreasca City Center is a multi-functional center with a shopping and entertainment complex as well as two office buildings in

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. Floreasca City Center consists of a center for

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and business. The gross area amounts to approx. with rentable area of approximately and more than 2,000 parking places. It is the tallest building in

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, with shopping-mall, entertainment, retail and offices. Located in

Floreasca Floreasca () is a district in Bucharest, Romania, in Sector 2. Its name comes from Lake Floreasca, which is situated in the north of the neighborhood. The Floreasca Hospital is also situated in the neighborhood, in its southern part. Floreasc ...

, an urban district and residential area in the northeast of Bucharest, SkyTower is close to another Raiffeisen evolution project, the Oracle Tower.

Construction works

Funding obtained from Raiffeisen Bank International was about €95.5-million. The project was constructed in stages.

Stage I : SkyTower

Located between two of Bucharest's arterial roads, Calea Floreasca and Barbu Văcărescu street, SkyTower is the second office building is designed as a high-rise building with a height of . With 37 upper floors and 5 basement floors (gross floor area approximately ), this tower is the highest building in

. A restaurant and conference rooms are situated in the two uppermost floors. The facade of the Tower has an oblong structure over 4 floors with

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and

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areas. In the uppermost floors the facade opens up and becomes entirely transparent. The ground floor features a generous entrance lobby, hosting reception and security desk and provides access to the upper floors via the security filter accessible by electronic card. The vertical access is ensured by ten elevators, out of which five are low-rise (up to the 18th floor) and five are high-rise (up to the 36th floor). Each regular office floor is designed to host open space offices with afferent toilets and connections ready for installing the kitchenettes, accommodating up to 60 working stations, benefiting from a specially designed meeting area. On June 6, 2012, SkyTower has reached the 36th floor and became the tallest building in Romania. The topping out ceremony was held on June 28, 2012.

Stage II : Office Wing

The ''Office Wing'', an office building with 7 floors and a

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al ground plan (gross floor area approximately ) floats above the shopping mall. This structure features a transparent light glass

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. In the floor connecting the structure with the mall, there is a fitness centre which has a direct exit to the generous open space on the roof of the shopping mall.

Stage III : Promenada mall

The

and

center has a gross floor area of approximately and is divided into 3 basement floors with some 1,300 parking spaces and 3 upper floors with sales areas (ground floor and 1st upper floor) as well as a food court and a cinema center in the 2nd upper floor. The mall received from the Austrian Society for Sustainable Buildings the "Gold" certificate issued according to OGNI/DGNB standards."The first developments of Floreasca City Center will be fully operational this year"
''Bursa construcțiilor'' Completion of Promenada shopping center, which will house about 120 shops, was finished in the late 2013. More than 50% of the space has been leased to internationally renowned retailers.

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