BALTYK -

POZNAN

This 25,000 m² building is divided into 12,000 m² office space, 750 m² panorama restaurant with a one room hotel, 1350 m² retail in the plinth of the building and three levels of underground parking. 

The flexible office space is limited to a depth of seven metres allowing daylight to generously penetrate the workspaces. Bałtyk is also a multifunctional building with innovative interior solutions, and scenic terraces offering panoramic views all across the city. In addition to business-oriented functions, the building will house catering establishments, a fitness club, and an intimate jazz club on the 16th floor. 

This results in a form which appears completely different depending on the angle it is approached from. Towards the south, a slope of cascading patios offers outdoor spaces to the users of the building. 

The façade is floor-to-ceiling glass with vertical louvres of glass fibre concrete softening the impact of the sun without losing the vistas over the city and zoo. 

Diagonal shapes are turned into terraces for users, and this thins out as it ascends allowing for less square meters of offices in return for more public space below. 

A building that is very different from all four sides and responds to the historicity of the site located on what used to be the old Baltyk cinema, from which the project takes its name. 

Photo credits: Ossip van Duivenbode