Zlote Tarasy

59, Złota, Śródmieście, Warszawa, Poland

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Zlote Tarasy

59, Złota, Śródmieście, Warszawa, Poland

Type

Commercial › Office Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Transport + Infrastructure › Parking

YEAR

2007

Overview

Zlote Tarasy is a landmark destination for Warsaw’s newest high-rise
district, offering year-round shopping, leisure and social opportunities for
the residents and visitors to the city. The multi-level, mixed-use project is a
modern, state-of-the-art complex. It is designed by The Jerde Partnership to
reconnect the project area to the city, thereby realizing the site’s potential
as the center of a large urban system. In addition to renewing Warsaw's urban
identity, Zlote Tarasy creates a model for further urban redevelopment in the
city.

Design

Zlote Tarasy is inspired by Warsaw’s historic urban parks, which were
spared from the otherwise total destruction of the city during World War II.
The preserved historic parks form a centuries old “necklace” of green “pearls”
through the city. Envisioning Zlote Tarasy as metaphorically adding another
“pearl” to the series, Jerde reinterpreted the historic parks by creating the
project as a lively indoor and outdoor urban environment with generous open
spaces that are reminiscent of the city’s great parks.

Zlote Tarasy takes the form of a below-grade pocket park that opens to
a lively, retail and entertainment plaza. Designed as an extension of the park,
the plaza is enclosed by an innovative glass roof with an undulating surface
inspired by the tree canopies crowning the city’s historic parks. Spanning 120
meters with individual spans of more than 30 meters, the thin glass roof
creates the feeling of being outdoors while providing weather protection during
the winter cold.

Surrounding the interior plaza, a three-level retail and entertainment
center is organized in terraces, as suggested by the name Zlote Tarasy, which
means “golden terraces.” The terraces, which contain local and international
retailers, restaurants and a multiplex cinema, overlook the interior courtyard
and open-air park. Mid- and high-rise towers rising above the three-level
retail and entertainment center will house office space, including ING Real
Estate’s Eastern European headquarters.

Designed as a connector to weave central Warsaw’s urban fabric back
together, Zlote Tarasy includes an interior circulation path that connects to
the city’s existing pedestrian patterns, linking to the Warszawa Centralna
train station on the south with pocket parks and the historic city center on
the north. Additional entrances around the perimeter of the project connect
help recreate the historic urban grid lost during World War II and revitalize
public spaces nearby. Situated within the master plan area for the Palace of
Culture, Zlote Tarasy is expected to play an integral role in connecting the
Palace with a new high-rise district planned for the city.