New highrise for Vilnius NCC: "Telecom" Tower

[Mantas]

Today was announced than Telecommunication company "Lietuvos telekomas" is going to sell 8 administrative buildings in Vilnius and build a highrise in the right bank of river Neris (New City Center). Some data that is known:

Total floor: 20,000 m2
Number of emplyees: 700 to 1000
Start of construction: Spring 2006
End of construction: Summer 2007
Height: unknown, but definetely a highrise.

Most possible location (in place of the commie building, pic by Geex)

[Mantas]

So for now we know about these towers for NCC:

1. U/C Center of Registers up to 28 fl
2. U/C Vyrokas apartments ~23 fl
3. Hansabank building ~18 fl
4. "Kvartalas" Tower 31 fl
5. "Telecom" Tower >12 fl
6. 2nd Kvartalas Tower 12 fl

Sounds great

[Edd]

@Mantaz: You forgot one more Kvartalas tower ~12 floors.

[Geex]

^

Mantaz replace picture with this one:

http://img201.exs.cx/img201/87/untitled32fa.jpg

[delfin_pl]

Originally Posted by Mantaz

So for now we know about these towers for NCC:

1. U/C Center of Registers up to 28 fl
2. U/C Vyrokas apartments ~23 fl
3. Hansabank building ~18 fl
4. "Kvartalas" Tower 31 fl
5. "Telecom" Tower >12 fl

Sounds great

great news, could you give me a link with renders of those towers, I wonder what they look like

[Mantas]

Edd> Gee, thx, never notice that building

Originally Posted by delfin_pl

great news, could you give me a link with renders of those towers, I wonder what they look like

Sure.

"Kvartalas" project and Vyrokas (the semi-circle one). 1,2 are mentioned highrises, 6 - a commieblcok to be renewed


Hansabank is making a decision on the design. So could be this


or



And the Center of Registers

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by Mantaz

Most possible location (in place of the commie building, pic by Geex)

And right back from me! That commie building sure is not great loss.

[Mantas]

Yeah, I wish we had way more of such losses

[blimey]

Great news

[Edd]

Btw telecom has 40 000 m^2 of office space in Vilnius now. They will build new ~20 000 m^2 office and they will not sell all their old buildings, they will leave 10 000 m^2 of space in old building/buildings. Their current main building in Newtown (Naujamiestis) district:

[delfin_pl]

Thanks Mantaz, cant wait to see a render of this tower

[jimm]

Wonderful news, hope that after a short time we'll see some renderings.

[liutass]

Should we count a 12 fl. building as a skyscraper?

[Edd]

Originally Posted by liutass

Should we count a 12 fl. building as a skyscraper?

No, 12 floor building is a high-rise but definitely not a skyscraper. Btw, it's not clear how many floors it'll have.

[ch1le]

dam you guys are sick! congratz though, lets see if you beat our 14 (70m+) highrises by 2007 plan in Tallinn's CBD

[Mantas]

Originally Posted by ch1le

dam you guys are sick! congratz though, lets see if you beat our 14 (70m+) highrises by 2007 plan in Tallinn's CBD

CBD? You mean CRD? (j/k)

Btw, can you list those highrises, because AFAIK there were less than that

[ch1le]

well, it hopefully by current plans will be 14 imho, with the current highrises (olümpia, viru, city, maakri, sas and union included) if we add tornimäe 1, tornimäe 2, then tartu mnt 15(35F), then the one next to olümpia(max 30), then the 40 storey lennuki corner, then the 40 storey on Tartu mnt 17, then a 30 storey building on tartu mnt 25/25a, then another 30 storey building on maakri 19/21, then a 19 storey one on maakri 34 then a 24 storey building on maakri 24/22

these are not mearly visions they are projects and plans currently in the hands of city planners waiting for approval

i listed 11 new buildings, if we add the existing six we get a total of 17 HIGH highrises in CBD by hopefully 2008/09

[Edd]

Well, I think I said it sometime ago but still: I think that NCC of Vilnius is not going to be a tough competitor in terms of skyline for other capitals - Riga and Tallinn. I doubt if even 28 floor register center will be approved (it'll most probably be lowered to some ~24 floors). I think that NCC will not have tall towers - it'll be massive and short. But it'll be bigger than e.g. new district in Tallinn (not sure about Riga though) - it's obvious, there are more people, more companies in Lithuania than in Estonia (population of Lithuania is ~2.6 times bigger).

[ch1le]

well true, the CBD in tallinn cant contain alot towers! Well run out of space! There is space for max 15-20 towers left in Maakri area!

[Mantas]

^ Won't be a competitor? ATM it is a tough competitor and possibly the best skyline in the region. There there are no signs that the development of NCC would stop. In other words, height doesn't mean everything.