City Tower, Commercial skyscraper in Nusle district, Prague, Czech Republic.
City Tower is a 109-metre skyscraper on the Pankrác Plain in Prague 4, with 27 above-ground floors and three basement levels. Its facade is made of 30,500 m² of glass panels set in a grid of vertical and horizontal mullions, with a narrower structural section along the left side and a light-coloured pillar at the left edge. Offices occupy most of the interior.
Construction began in 1983 under architect František Šmolík as the intended headquarters of Czechoslovak Radio. By 1993 the nearly finished building was too large and outdated for Czech Radio and contained asbestos, so it was sold in 2000 to ECM for 285 million CZK. A radical reconstruction by Richard Meier with Václav Aulický ran from 2005 to 2008.
The building was intended as the headquarters of Czechoslovak Radio, whose successor Czech Radio found it oversized and full of asbestos after 1993. American architect Richard Meier, of the New York Five, gave it its present glass facade in the 2005–2008 reconstruction, working with Václav Aulický.
The tower is easily accessible in the Nusle district and features office spaces along with a restaurant on the top floor. Visitors can admire the building from outside or visit the dining establishment without accessing the office areas.
The 27th-floor restaurant closed at the end of 2023, so the tower no longer has a dining room at the top. The building has 18 lifts reaching 6 m/s, which the operator's website calls the fastest in the Czech Republic.
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