February, 2018 Gliwice

Twisted Skyscrapers Around

The World
One of the latest design trends
The first constructed-Turning
Torso in Malmö, Sweden.

• INFINITY TOWER, DUBAI

•
ABSOLUTE WORLD TOWERS, MISSISSAUGA, CANADA
• KUWAIT TRADE CENTER
•
REVOLUTION TOWER, PANAMA CITY
•
HADID TOWER, MILAN
•
EVOLUTION TOWER, MOSCOW
•
GEHRY TOWER, HANOVER
•
OPUS HONG KONG
•
MODE GAKUEN SPIRAL TOWERS, NAGOYA
Where is Avaz
Twist Tower?

Sarajevo, Bosnia and

Herzegovina

located in the Marijin

Dvor city neighborhood,
Sarajevo’s central
municipality
 Companies
Involved
Building Function
DesignADS
Studio office

Floors Above
Height: Architectural Ground
142 m / 466 ft 39
Height: To Tip Floors Below
172 m / 564 ft Ground
1

Structural Structure Type

Material Building
concrete

http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/sara
jevo/avaz-twist-tower/4248/
 About tower
Architectural masterpiece of Faruk
Kapidzic

On building worked few thousands

workers
Construction work of 200
construction companies from BiH
 In realization of project included

Analyst of seismic
Main analyst:
influence:
Osman Morankic
Branislav Verbic

Revident and Foundation

consultant: analyst: Zlatko
Muhamed Zlatar Langof
The tower can be seen from a distance
around the city, which makes it quite a
landmark

It is 170 meters (574 feet) tall, with 36

floors, of which 5 are basement floors.

Antenna 20 meters

32,000 square meters (344,445 square

foot) of floor space, with its twisted facade
and field-scopes on the 36th floor
Timelapse
TWIST TOWER IN NUMBERS

Height {m} 175

Time of building {years} 3

Number of floors 40

Cubic meters 32000

Monthly number of visitors 10000
 The German company
Schüco chose it among the
10 most beautiful buildings
in the world.

 It is currently the tallest

skyscraper in the former
Yugoslavia
Inside ATT
Building process
 Contract worth 8.727,024 BAM

100 workers for concrete works

13 000 cubics of concrete
1.800 tons of reinforcement

Just for reinforced concrete-

needed amount of money: 9
millions BAM ( circa 19 millions
PLN)
Static analysis-
domestic and
European standards

Used softwers:
Tower
SAP
 Architectural
Seismic Wind and
influence influence constructive
solution

Seismic and wind influence on this

height are huge so they were dictated
architectural and constructive solution.
Foundations on depth of 30m under
surface

Carrying 23.000 cubic meters of concrete

and 3 millions of iron

Inside of tower are more than 10 000

places

Facade is mounted with more than

200.000 different pieces of transparent
glass
Maketa

One floor
underground

40
floors
38 Ground
floors floor
Headquarters for Dnevni avaz,
a Bosnian newspaper company
LED displays - the way of digital advertisement
Better effect on people than other types of advertisement
On the height of 150m which is the easiest point to see in centre of
Perimeter of display 37m , height 6m
  Produced
in Finland

 Velocity :
5 meters per
second

5 super fast elevators

They are also used for advertisement: inside 3D
and in front of the elevator
3 panoramic and 2 smaller elevators
Very interesting is the race that is being organized every
year, called“Avaz Tower Running”.
The contestants have to run up the 780 steps to the
observation deck, which is a big challenge and for the real
adrenaline addicts.

4 categories
Vertical marathon
VIEWPOINT
View from tower