Capital Fort

{{Short description|Office building in Sofia, Bulgaria}} {{Infobox building | name = Capital Fort | image = Tsarigradsko_Shose_and_Capital_Fort.png | image_caption = | location = Sofia, Bulgaria | coordinates = {{coord|42.6464|23.3958|region:BG|display=inline,title}} | construction_start_date = 2010 | completion_date = | architect = | owner = Variant Sofia Group | cost = €60 million | floor_area = {{convert|80,000|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} | top_floor = | floor_count = 28 | building_type = | antenna_spire = | roof = {{convert|126|m|ft|abbr=on}} | elevator_count = | structural_engineer = | main_contractor = Fort Noks | image_alt = Capital Fort Business Center in Sofia is an office building Class A. It is the first skyscraper in Sofia and the second tallest building in Bulgaria. It has 28 floors and a surface area of 80,000 square metres | est_completion = | opening_date = November 2015 | developer = | website = {{URL|1= https://www.capitalfort.com/?lang=en}} }} '''Capital Fort''' ({{langx|bg|Капитал Форт}}) Business Center is a Class A office building in Sofia. The building is 126 m tall, and was the tallest building in Bulgaria before the construction of Sky Fort which was topped out at 202 m. It has 28 floors and a surface area of {{convert|80000|sqm}}. The building has two underground floors which serve as parking lots for around 750 cars.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=112548 | title=Construction of 1st Bulgarian Skyscraper Kicks off in Sofia | work=Novinite | date=January 29, 2010}}</ref>

== Location == The building is located on Tsarigradsko shose, one of the largest and busiest boulevards in Sofia. Together with Sky Fort, they form Sofia Capital City - a cluster of high-rise buildings. The area is serviced by bus lines and the Tsarigradsko shose Metro Station of Sofia Metro.

==Design and construction== The concept design of Capital Fort is done by WKK{{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=December 2015}} whilst working at Atkins. The local architect of record is "A&A Architects", Sofia, Bulgaria, who have worked on most of the Business Park Sofia buildings. Atkins is the architecture company behind Burj Al Arab in Dubai 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 Black Sea resort developments in the last decade.<ref name="studioxcreative">{{cite web | url=http://forton.bg/en/post/126/capital-fort | title=CAPITAL FORT | publisher=Forton | access-date=2015-12-03 | archive-date=2015-12-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208041119/http://forton.bg/en/post/126/capital-fort | url-status=dead }}</ref> Construction began on 29.01.2010 and the edifice was topped out by 2012. Estimated value was between €60 and €80 million.

==Interior== This mixed use building (Office, Retail & Conference Facility) comprises a high-rise office building and a L-shaped low-rise office building that both sit over a podium, which houses a wide range of retail and conference facilities, accessed through a grand atrium lobby.<ref name="wkkarchitects.com">{{cite web | url=http://wkkarchitects.com/#/capital-fort/ | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131030100310/http://wkkarchitects.com/#/capital-fort/ | url-status=usurped | archive-date=October 30, 2013 | title=CAPITAL FORT, BULGARIA | work=WKK}}</ref> Offices use 24 of building's floors. Superior equipment and installations include 12 high-speed lifts in the high body, advanced HVAC technology and a building management system, covering climate control, security, fire protection and safety.<ref name="studioxcreative"/>

==Class A== Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) defines three categories of office buildings - namely Class A, Class B, and Class C. Since the number of parking spaces is 717,<ref name="studioxcreative"/> Capital Fort does not cover the standard for a Class A office building.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.boma.org/research/pages/building-class-definitions.aspx | title=Building Class Definitions | publisher=BOMA | access-date=2015-12-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827220305/http://www.boma.org/research/Pages/building-class-definitions.aspx | archive-date=2013-08-27 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Requirement is a parking space for each 100 m² of gross floor area (GFA) <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bulgarianproperties.bg/statii-ot-bulgaria/biznes-sgrada-klas-a-2382.html | title=Какво означава бизнес сграда с офиси клас А | author=Bulgarian Properties Ltd. | language=bg}}</ref> The gross floor area of the building is 80 795 m²,<ref name="wkkarchitects.com"/> which requires 808 parking spaces for Class A - 91 more than the currently available ones. Other source<ref name="studioxcreative"/> 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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==External links== *[http://www.capitalfort.com/en/ Official site] *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20151208164826/http://www.emporis.com/statistics/tallest-buildings/city/100537/sofia-bulgaria List of tallest buildings in Sofia]}} *[http://citybuild.bg/news/napredva-stroitelstvoto-bylgarskiia/22546 Photos from construction (comments in Bulgarian)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112957/http://citybuild.bg/news/napredva-stroitelstvoto-bylgarskiia/22546 |date=2016-03-04 }}

Category:Skyscrapers in Sofia Category:Skyscraper office buildings Category:Office buildings in Bulgaria Category:Retail buildings in Bulgaria Category:Office buildings completed in 2015