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Altus Skyscraper

Katowice, Poland

The 973rd tallest building in the world

125 m · 410 ft

Altus (also known as Uni Centrum or Business Center 2000) is a highrise in Katowice, Silesia, Poland. The construction started in 2001 and finished in 2003. The building is 125 m high and rises 30 floors above ground. Total floor area is 68,815 m2, and volume is 270,430 m3. The building surrounds a four-story atrium. One wing of the building has 18 stories and the other has 29. Altus is an intelligent building, controlled centrally through a Building Management System. There are 18 elevators in the building. The main tenants are a four-star hotel, a casino, a health club, and banks: PKO Bank Polski, Citibank, and Kredyt Bank. There is also a three-level underground parking that can fit 560 cars. Over 1,500 people work in the building.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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