Chałubińskiego 8
Chałubińskiego 8 ), formerly known as Intraco II, and Oxford Tower, is a skyscraper office building in Warsaw, Poland, within the South Downtown neighbourhood, at 8 Chałubińskiego Street. It was opened in 1978. The building has measures 140 m to the roof, and 150 m in its total height.
History
Chałubińskiego 8 was designed in the International Style by Wojciech Grzybowski, Jerzy Janczak, Jerzy Skrzypczak, Halina Świergocka-Kaim, and Jan Zdanowicz. It was constructed between 1975 and 1978, by a Sweden-based BPA Byggproduktion AB, in the location of the former Warsaw Pomological Garden, which was destroyed in the World War II. The building was envisioned as the headquarters of the Bank Handlowy, and the international trade hub, as well as a part of the Western Wall, an architectural complex, that also includes the LIM Center. Upon its opening, it was the most technologically advanced, and second tallest building in the city.In 2022, the building owner petitioned in the city hall for the permission to build additional seven storeys, that would extend its total height to 180 m, as well as an additional tower, located 20 m to the south.