After announcing two new projects, Olivia Centre remains the most interesting mixed-use centre. According to the plans, one of Olivia’s next buildings is to be used as an office building, and the other as a residential building for long-term rental (PRS). The investor has just received a building permit for both buildings.
The obtained permit confirms the direction of development that Olivia has taken since its inception: a multifunctional centre, open to residents and tourists. The obtained permit is the next stage of the investment and does not mean that the construction will start automatically. Further market analyses will provide an answer as to when the project will be given the green light for implementation, although its shape is already known.
The new buildings will be built in the northern part of the centre and will reach a height of just over 50 metres, corresponding to the height of the last investment, Olivia Prime. The first residential building in Olivia, whose working name Olivia Nord is related to the fact that it will be the northernmost building of the centre, will provide the function of long-term institutional lease. This increasingly popular lease formula provides residents with the opportunity to occupy the premises for many years, but also to benefit from standardized service and additional services, which are not available in the case of private rent. On the other hand, the direct location next to the office center calms the traffic in the area and revitalizes the urban fabric for the benefit of the entire district.
On the 4th floor of the building with the working name Olivia Nord, a terrace will be arranged, which will serve as a public open space. It will be filled with numerous plants and places to rest. The building will offer 151 apartments of various sizes. The residential part will reach 17 storeys, while the second building will reach 15 storeys, offering 20,000 sqm2 office and service space. The difference in the number of floors is due to the different heights of the apartments, although the height of both buildings is the same. The award-winning Design Anatomy studio will be responsible for the interior design, whose portfolio includes the interior design of 32 and 34 floors of Olivia Centre, over 100,000m2 of offices and apartments in @Home and Olivia Home projects.
The design of the latest buildings is the responsibility of the international architectural studio Epstein, which in the world is implementing such facilities as the O’Hare International airport in Chicago, and in Poland Varso, Chmielna 89 or Mennica Legacy Tower. As Paweł Kochanek , a senior designer from the Epstein studio working on the Olivia Nord and Olivia Nowa project, describes: The building complex consists of two free-standing forms connected to each other by a podium. They are adjacent to a common atrium containing a public space with greenery arranged for public and service functions. The architectural form forms the culmination of the urban layout of the existing form of Olivia Centre on the north side. At the ground floor level, the entrances to the buildings are spatially connected by elements of a roof in the form of a “meander” stretching intermittently along the façade to their southern corner.
The introduction of the residential function to Olivia confirms its long-term policy of development towards a multifunctional facility, open to residents and their needs. In the existing buildings of the centre, there are already 12 restaurants, numerous service outlets, a bakery, a two-storey fitness centre, a pharmacy, two medical centres, and a publicly accessible exotic Olivia Garden, where 3.5 thousand PLN have been prepared for guests. plants reaching up to 11 meters in height, representing over 400 species and coming from 5 continents, as well as event and conference centers that can accommodate up to 1000 people in total. Olivia has won numerous awards and distinctions for the implementation of such directions of development, and the proof of its openness to tourists and residents is the award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship granted on the occasion of the International Tourism Day in 2020, as well as the laurels of the European Property Awards for Olivia Garden, called the “architectural Oscars” in the industry.
Olivia Centre is also a cultural and sports offer available to all interested. The number of events each month reaches several dozen concerts, classes and even theatrical performances staged on the highest stage in Poland.
In both buildings, the ground floors will provide further commercial premises, additionally expanding the range of services available in Olivia Centre. These types of mixed-use centres or facilities integrate many urban functions. In recent years, the concept of 15-minute cities has been particularly popular, and Olivia is becoming a regional determinant of this trend. Its premise is to meet most of your daily needs within a 15-minute walk. The result is the creation of lively and fashionable urban districts, which are the center of life of local communities.
– The development of Olivia with new buildings is based on the continued high level of demand for its space, and at the same time the development of new functions, which have been signalled by the market for a long time – emphasizes Maciej Kotarski, Director of the Commercialization Department at Olivia Centre. – The introduction of the residential function to our centre is also another important step in the development of Olivia as a fully multifunctional facility, living 24 hours a day. We are very much looking forward to introducing the residential function to Olivia. To numerous cafés, catering outlets and highly rated urban functions, we introduce residential premises in a form previously unavailable in the Tri-City – we provide a combination of comfortable living and working within one facility.
In the foreground, the Olivia Nord residential building. Behind it, there is the Olivia Nova office building. Both buildings are connected to each other by a common base.
Olivia Centre in Gdańsk is the largest and most modern mix-use centre in the Tri-City agglomeration and in Poland. Its area currently amounts to 175,000 m.kw, and ultimately it will significantly exceed 200,000 m.kw. The design of the entire centre was created by Konior&Partners and BJK Architects, as well as the designs of individual buildings. Olivia’s largest residents include Amazon, Bayer, Capgemini, Deloitte, Energa, EPAM, Fujifilm, Lyreco, Medicover, Nike, Nordea, PwC, Ricoh, Sii, thyssenkrupp.
In the spring of 2021. Olivia Business Centre has undergone the most restrictive analysis conducted by experts from the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) in New York. The safety of building users was checked, as well as solutions improving the quality of life in the business centre. Olivia received the maximum score of 25 out of 25 points. It achieved this result in 22 basic categories and in 3 new ones related to the innovations implemented in its area. This is the first such result in the world, which confirms that our buildings are among the world’s top business companies. A year later, in a re-verification, Olivia maintained the same level of certification, confirming its membership in the group of the safest, but also user-friendly workspaces.
At the same time, Olivia Centre is much more than buildings. Over 1500 business, educational, cultural and sports events take place here every year. A unique combination of services and amenities for residents, their employees and guests has been created on its premises, which consists of eight restaurants, 4 cafes, a professional two-storey fitness centre, a kindergarten for 100 children, a primary school, a high school, an IT academy, a medical centre, a dental centre, a pharmacy, 5 banks and 5 conference centres, O4 – one of the largest coworking spaces in Poland, but at the same time a vast patio filled with vegetation, fountains and places of relaxation. In the central point of Olivia there is a vast (almost 1000 m2), year-round tropical garden Olivia Garden, which is a regenerative space for residents – it reduces emotional and psychophysiological stress, rebuilds depleted attention resources, has a positive effect on the ability to take on everyday challenges related to professional work and also fosters good social relations, creating a space for meetings.
In July 2019, on the 32nd, 33rd and 34th floor of Olivia Star, the highest building in northern Polish, a project was launched, constituting a unique, additional offer attracting guests from all over the world to Olivia. On On the 32nd floor, a public viewing level has been opened, allowing a 360° view. for the whole Tri-City. It offers not only a stunning panorama of the Bay of Gdańsk, the Tri-City Landscape Park and the Gdynia cliff coast, but also originally designed interiors, catering and recreational facilities. On On the 33rd floor of the building, there are two prestigious restaurants: Arco and Treinta y Tres, run by Paco Pérez, one of the most successful chefs in the world, winner of the 5***** prestigious Michelin culinary guide. On On the 34th floor, at a height of 150 meters above the ground, a multifunctional event and conference centre has been created, located the highest in Poland, allowing for the organisation of events for up to 400 people, where concerts of the greatest Polish stars, theatre performances and business conferences are held. Olivia offers over 1600 parking spaces, a number of electric car charging points, points for storing and charging electric scooters, several hundred bicycle racks and large changing rooms with showers for cyclists in each of the 7 buildings.
