Article source: Architekti Šebo Lichý

Galvaniho Business Center 5 is the last completed block of the Bratislava business and administrative complex located between Galvani Street and the D1 motorway, which consists of retail parks and shopping centres, shopping arcades, showrooms, hotels and rentable administrative complexes. GBC 5 is an office building which, thanks to its dynamic façade and changing window tectonics, parametrically responds to lighting conditions and location with respect to the cardinal directions. Wide panoramic views of the slopes of the Carpathians and the north of Bratislava, dense vertical solar shading on the south side and longitudinal eastern and western façades of changing perforated geometry with irregular façade atriums with greenery bring refreshing change and authentic design to suburban generic urbanism.  With its architectural, construction and technology solutions, GBC 5 strives to respond to all critical issues and new challenges of current design. Today, our latest experience with the global pandemic crisis and imminent climate change forces us to rethink architectural design and solve problems of cities and country development.

Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

• Architects: Architekti Šebo Lichý
• Project: GBC 5
• Location: Galvaniho ulica, Bratislava
• Photography: Tomáš Manina
• Authors: Tomáš Šebo, Igor Lichý, Imrich Vaško, Aleš Hradecký, Juraj Murín, Martina Bognerová Hrašková, Michal Romanec, Patrik Kuva
• Chief engineer: Jozef Draškovič
• Main contractor: ING Steel
• Study and project: 2018 – 2020
• Implementation: 2019 – 2021

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