Capital Fort ( bg, Капитал Форт) Business Center is a Class A office building in

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. The height is 126 m, and was the tallest building in

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before the construction of

Sky Fort Sky Fort Business Center is a skyscraper office building currently under construction in Sofia. Located at the busiest thoroughfare in the Bulgarian capital, Tsarigradsko shose, and nearby Tsarigradsko shose Metro Station. Sky Fort will be the ...

with its 202 m. It has 28 floors and a surface area of . The building has two underground floors which serve as parking lots for around 750 cars.

Location

The building is located on

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, one of the largest and busiest boulevards in Sofia. Together with

, they form Sofia Capital City - a cluster of high-rise buildings. The area is serviced by

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and the Tsarigradsko shose Metro Station of

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Design and construction

The concept design of Capital Fort is done by WKK whilst working at Atkins. The local architect of record is "A&A Architects", Sofia, Bulgaria, who have worked on most of the

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buildings. Atkins is the architecture company behind

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and as a result Capital Fort shares most of the external looks with its distinctive predecessor (itself completed in 1999). Capital Fort is developed by Fort Noks, the company behind 500 000 m² built-up area of

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resort developments in the last decade. Construction began on 29.01.2010 and the edifice was topped out by 2012. Estimated value was between

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60 and

80 million.

Interior

This mixed use building (Office, Retail & Conference Facility) comprises a high-rise office building and a L-shaped

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office building that both sit over a podium, which houses a wide range of retail and conference facilities, accessed through a grand atrium lobby. Offices use 24 of building's floors. Superior equipment and installations include 12 high-speed lifts in the high body, advanced

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technology and a building management system, covering climate control, security, fire protection and safety.

Class A

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(BOMA) defines three categories of office buildings - namely Class A, Class B, and Class C. Since the number of parking spaces is 717, Capital Fort does not cover the standard for a Class A office building. Requirement is a parking space for each 100 m² of

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(GFA) The gross floor area of the building is 80 795 m², which requires 808 parking spaces for Class A - 91 more than the currently available ones. Other source points out just 40 000 m² of (probable) GFA, since "efficient open-space" of 1 150 m² a floor (cited there as well) gives a total of 32 200 m², in which case Capital Fort covers Class A requirements, regarding parking spaces. The building is not purely an office one, having retail and conference functions as well.

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