Ušće Tower, Skyscraper in New Belgrade, Serbia
Ušće Tower is a 25-story skyscraper on Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard in New Belgrade's Block 16, overlooking the confluence of the Sava and Danube. Its facade is now entirely glass after the 2003–2005 reconstruction, which added two floors and a 26-meter antenna. The top floor holds a restaurant and a closed observation deck.
The tower was built in 1964 as the headquarters of Yugoslavia's Communist League Central Committee. It was heavily damaged during NATO airstrikes in 1999 and subsequently reconstructed.
Locals still call the building "CK", short for Centralni Komitet, the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. During Yugoslavia's "golden years", lights were left partly on at night to spell out "TITO", after president Josip Broz Tito. After 1990 the Socialist Party of Serbia occupied the first ten floors, and Tito's cabinet was cleared out.
The tower stands in Block 16 on Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard, on the New Belgrade side of the Sava-Danube confluence. The top-floor observation deck is currently closed to the public, though plans exist to open it. The Ušće shopping mall next door, opened in 2009, has two underground parking levels.
After its destruction, the building was not simply repaired in 2003 but expanded with two additional floors and a large antenna. This reconstruction made it taller and more visible as the city was being rebuilt.
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