Five years ago, City Tower, the tallest building in the Czech Republic, was approved for use

Prague - Selected data about the tallest buildings and structures in the Czech Republic on the fifth anniversary (December 20) of the completion of the tallest building in the Czech Republic, City Tower in Prague's Pankrác, which stands at 109 meters:
Tallest Buildings in the Czech Republic

City Tower - 109 meters
- location: Prague 4 - Pankrác
- number of floors: 27 above-ground and 3 underground floors
- construction start: 1983, related constructions began in 1978, reconstruction from 2005
- building completion: December 20, 2007
- usage: total rentable area is 49,000 m², of which nearly 44,000 m² are office spaces, the top floor has a restaurant and conference facilities, underground parking
- project author: the final form after reconstruction of the unfinished building was contributed to by the studio of American architect Richard Meier
- the building was originally intended to be the seat of the Czechoslovak Radio, later the unfinished building was purchased by the development company ECM. Since July of this year, it has belonged to Consideratio, which is connected through Fintop to the Proxy-Finance holding.

City Empiria - 104 meters

- location: Prague 4 - Pankrác
- number of floors: 27 above-ground floors
- construction start: 1975
- construction completion: 1977; reconstruction 2000-2005
- usage: total rentable area is 24,500 m², of which 22,700 m² are office spaces
- project authors: architects Zdeněk Kuna, Zdeněk Stupka, Olivier Honke-Houfek, Milan Valenta, and Jaroslav Zdražil
- the building was originally the headquarters of the foreign trade enterprise Motokov, in 2000 it was purchased by the development company ECM, which sold the building in 2010 to one of the companies within the structure of the Generali PPF Holding.

SHD Komes - 96 meters

- location: Most
- number of floors: 23 above-ground floors
- construction start: 1970
- construction completion: 1984
- usage: offices
- project authors: architects Václav Krejčí, Jiří Fojt, and Míťa Hejduk
- the building was constructed for the headquarters of the North Bohemian Brown Coal Mines (SHD), currently it is managed by the company SD - KOMES, which is a subsidiary of the North Bohemian Mines.

Tall Buildings Under Construction:

AZ Tower - 111 meters

- location: Brno
- number of floors: 30 above-ground floors
- construction start: April 20, 2011
- construction completion: April 2013 (expected)
- usage: the building will have 17,000 m² of retail, office, and residential spaces
- project author: architectural office Burian - Křivinka
- cost: the building is expected to cost 800 million crowns

Residence Eliška - approximately 90 meters
- location: Prague-Vysočany
- number of floors: 25 above-ground floors
- construction start: September 26, 2011
- construction completion: autumn 2013 (expected)
- usage: residential building, reportedly to be the tallest in the Czech Republic

Tallest Structure in the Czech Republic
Transmitters near Liblice, close to Český Brod - 355 meters
- a pair of transmitters is the tallest structure in Czech territory; the masts, completed on October 29, 1976, are 120 meters apart and both are equipped with elevators that go up to 350 meters - the highest elevators in the Czech Republic.

Tallest Concrete Structure in the Czech Republic
Transmitter Buková hora - 223 meters
- the structure from 1975 stands near the summit at an altitude of 683 m between Ústí nad Labem and Děčín.

Tallest Church Tower in the Czech Republic:
Tower of St. Bartholomew's Church in Plzeň - 102.26 meters
- the tower, built in 1838, consists of a stone part, followed by a slender spire that reaches nearly 103 meters above ground level.

Transmitters near Liblice - 355 meters (photo: tomboc.rajce.idnes.cz)
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