| Location: | Pribinova street 25, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Client: | J&T REAL ESTATE, a. s. |
| Total area of the site: | 6.222,5 m2 |
| Total useful area: | 45.142,0 m2 |
| Project accomplishment stage: | built between 2006 - 2008 |
| General designer: | P-T, spol. s r. o. - Juraj Hermann, Patrik Pavlásek, Lenka Halinárová, Anton Havlíček, Daniel Mikunda, Daniel Růžička, Peter Srpoň, Jana Valachovičová, Michal Smolec, Janka Kramáriková |
The goal of reconstruction of former Presscentrum building was to transform the morally and technologically outdated office building from mid-eighties to a modern, so-called "A" office building supplemented by services according to present-day needs, as well as by theatre and concert stage. The client required thorough change of the building's inside and outside architectural view to break away from its past as much as possible. From outside this change was realised by new envelope, and from inside by new layout of individual floors, and by adding grand social rooms on the roof which have created a new architectural accent of the whole construction. To make the new frontage, so-called element frontage system was used for the first time in Slovakia; this system combines technically perfect workshop fabrication of individual elements with quick assembly on site, with no scaffolding needed. The authors of the project have emphasized architectural structuring of the new envelope, visible both in distance views and in the panorama of wider centre of Bratislava. The frontage elements create a smooth and compact surface together, which changes in different phases of day, according to the angle of sun beams and to the viewer's position. This is why sometimes integral surface can be seen, and sometimes rather coloured horizontal bands in window sills. When designing the frontage, the architectural solution had to be matched with engineering requirements related to single-layer frontage, and simultaneously the client's severe budget limits had to be observed. When designing the layout, new two floors high entrance lobby was created in the object's axis, as well as autonomous shopping passage on the ground floor, accessible to public. Reduction of engineering hinterland allowed to provide a fitness centre on the first basement floor, accessible via new staircase. Part of the second above-ground floor is accessible for public; in the remaining parts there are conference rooms and self-service restaurant for office staff. 24 office floors with both open-plan and individual offices offer approx. 31 500 m2 of rental area. During the reconstruction, only the reinforced concrete and steel skeleton and six transformers have been left from the original Presscentrum building; the other materials and engineering devices are all new.
P - T, spol. s r. o., Martinengova 30, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovensko
