Panorama Tower (Espoo)

The building is owned by the insurance company Varma and has been designed by the architect bureau Larkas & Laine. The total area of the building is 23,600 square metres, of which 16,100 square metres is office space and 1600 square metres is business space. The C building has an area of 4000 square metres, the B building has 3900 and the A building has 8200. Business spaces for rent range from 100 to 1850 square metres. The total volume of the building is 90 thousand cubic metres. The office spaces have been designed so that they can be used as cubicles, open offices or a hybrid, depending on the wishes of the client. Also 550 square metres on each office floor can be split between two clients when necessary. The A building has seventeen floors and is 73 metres high. The street level and the three first floors of the tower building A have been reserved for businesses and services. Floors 4 to 16 are office spaces. The top floor has a sauna rentable for corporate events and an engineering space. The 17th floor is only a small stairs compartment with a helicopter hovering space on top of it. The floor is built to look like a fully usable office space. Beneath the building is a 1200 square metre basement with social and storage spaces. The parking spaces for the Panorama Tower are located in a parking hall next to the building, with 480 covered parking spaces. ==Construction==

The main structure designer Pöyry created a 3D virtual building from the basic structures of the building, which was the foundation for the whole structure design. The first sketches of the tower were made in December 2003, but the project was on hold for a year after this. A construction decision was made in spring 2006. The total cost of the building was about 54 million euro. Because of the cost of steel and the fire safety requirements for the building, the main structure material chosen for the 3D model was concrete, which was later changed to steel. The pillar structure of the building is made of steel, the supporting structure is made of concrete and the light facades are mainly made of glass. The steel pillar structure supports its own weight as well as the total weight of the building. The facades are made of Ruukki facade elements, which use either Liberta surface or brick paving on the outer surface, or of glass-aluminium wall elements. Foundation The rock underneath the tower is very fragmented and so the steel anchor bars had to be anchored at a depth of 15 metres instead of the planned six metres. ==References==