101 Tower (Kyiv)

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101 Tower
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101 Tower in 2021
101 Tower (Kyiv)
General information
StatusOn hold
TypeMixed-use
Address57 Hetmana Pavla Skoropadskoho Street
Town or city Kyiv
Country Ukraine
Coordinates 50°26′21″N30°29′47″E / 50.43919035016632°N 30.496359645324347°E / 50.43919035016632; 30.496359645324347
Construction startedApril 2009
CompletedMay 2012
Closed10 October 2022
OwnerValprym
Height116 metres (381 ft)
Technical details
Floor count27
Lifts/elevators10
Design and construction
Architect(s)Oleksandr Koval
Ivan Ryabokon
Architecture firmArkhitekturne Byuro A. Koval
Archimatika
DeveloperKAN Development
EngineerBIP-PM
Main contractorKAN Stroi

101 Tower is a 27-story high skyscraper in Kyiv, Ukraine, completed in 2012. [1] The building was among the most prestigious office centers in Kyiv and included among its tenets the headquarters of Samsung in Ukraine and the visa department of the German Embassy.

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In October 2022 the building was seriously damaged during Russian airstrikes against Kyiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is currently closed waiting for reconstruction. [2] [3]

History

The business center's construction April 2009. The original project was 34 floors tall but in 2010 KAN Development asked Ministry of Regional Development and Construction to approve an updated 27 floor project. The construction was finished in May 2012

In January 2016 the GreenFuel W32A charge station was opened in the 101 Tower parking, therefore making it the first office building in Ukraine with its own EV charger. [4]

The land under the property was being rented by the Eurozhitlogrup Company which is owned by Сур Rose Holding Limited based in Cyprus. In March 2020, it was announced that Сур Rose Holding Limited was being bought by Dragon Capital Investments Limited, also bought in Cyprus. It was reported that one of the beneficiaries of Eurozhytlogrup is Stepan Chernovetskyi, a son of the former mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetskyi. [5]

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 the building was badly damaged in an October missile attack. Owner of the KAN Development Igor Nikonov said that nobody got hurt because the strike took place early in the morning and if it was to happen a couple hours later the result would've been different The renovation will cost at least ten million dollars, but owners are still calculating the final cost so the repair work hasn't been started yet. [6]

Accidents

Aftermath of the October 2022 Russian bombing Kyiv after Russian shelling, 2022-10-10 (499).jpg
Aftermath of the October 2022 Russian bombing

On 25 June 2012, the balcony at the seventh floor of the building had caught fire due to short circuit in the fitness center. Firefighters arrived in 8 minutes and extinguished the fire in 15 minutes. Nobody got hurt, but fire destroyed the insulation. [7]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine the building suffered severe damage in Russian air strikes in October. On 10 October, a Russian rocket fell behind the business center and the impact of its explosion seriously damaged building's facade, but nobody got hurt inside the building. [8]

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