A nice place to park

Bucking the domestic trend of equipping office buildings with underground garages, Adgar Postępu has recently completed work on a seven-storey stand-alone parking garage. To give it a touch of greenery, the car park has a garden on its roof.

This atypical garage is part of the Adgar Plaza office complex, currently under construction in Warsaw's Mokotów district. When completed, Adgar Plaza's two 10-storey class-A buildings will comprise 27,000 sqm of office space.

"Everyone wants to build garages as simply and cheaply as possible, so in most [stand-alone] cases, unattractive blocs are created. We wanted to propose something interesting - an unconventional solution that would fit with the whole Adgar Plaza complex," explained Piotr Lasek, an architect on the project.

The building has a total of 237 parking places, with 74 on its two underground levels and 163 on five aboveground levels, and comprises a total of 8,360 sqm. The garage is one of only a few projects in Poland where the entire security system, including cameras and other devices, is based on IP protocol. The building is outfitted with CCTV monitoring, all entrances are controlled and it is adjusted to the needs of the disabled.

Adgar Postępu is a part of Adgar Investment & Development Ltd (AI&D Ltd), a public company listed on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. AI&D Ltd, in turn, is the real-estate division of the Zur Shamir group, a leading Israeli holding company operating in the fields of finance, insurance and real estate.