The European Union’s tallest building is now complete in Warsaw roughly a year-and-a-half after the supertall-qualifying tower designed by Foster + Partners topped out. Rising 1,017 feet over Wola, a modern mixed-used district on the western edge of Poland’s capital city, the 53-story Varso Tower anchors a larger three-building office complex developed by HB Reavis. Upon its topping out, Varso easily bumped Warsaw’s 778-foot-tall Palace of Culture and Science, a perennially controversial 1955 landmark high-rise, from Poland’s tallest-building spot.
As far as tallest towers in the EU goes, Frankfurt’s 850-foot-tall Commerzbank Tower (1997), also designed by Foster + Partners, drops to the number two
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