Poltegor Centre

Poltegor Centre

Poltegor Centre (formerly Poltegor) is currently the highest building in Wroclaw. It was built in 1982 and the name originates from a company called Poltegor (an acronym for Polska Technika Górnicza) dealing in mining. During 1980’s, the building was the company’s headquarters, and even after that period they still occupied a fair part of the building.

The technology behind the building is a central ferroconcrete core around which each floor has been build. Because the floors have been built using a mould, all of them are of exactly the same size and form. The core itself houses elevator shafts, staircases, emergency and maintenance shafts.

Although the building is standing tall at 125 meters, the actual height to the roof is 92 meters. It consists of 25 floors and 1 underground floor. The underground floor is accessed via three cargo elevators (out of the total number of 9 installed), as the floor is used only by the building’s staff. The next level is the main hall of the building from where you take an elevator. The next 22 floors are rented as office space and the last floor is a conference hall and a sightseeing platform. On the roof there is an antenna mounted which is used by various radio and TV broadcasters. From here, for example, the first post-Soviet, independent TV (Prywatna Telewizja "Echo") broadcast. Nowadays, it is used by regional broadcasters e.g. Radio Aplauz, Tok FM, Radiostacja, RMF Classic, and Telewizja Dolnośląska TeDe.

On the 18th of January, Poltegor (along with the neighboring land) was bought by a local businessman, Ryszard Czarnecki. Czarnecki has decided to demolish the building in June and build the Sky Tower, a more than 200 meters tall apartment building, which will be completed by around 2010.