who will build? History of PKiN in a nutshell. Location: Plac Defilad 1, Warszawa, Poland Date of construction start up: 2 May 1952 Date of final construction works:the year of 1955 Construction materials: stone, limestone Altitude:230,68 m � up to the top of the spire 167,68 m � to the base of the spire Area: 123 084 m2 (1 324 876 ft2) Cubic Capacity: 817 000 m3 (28 840 100 ft3) Architect: Lew Rudniew 1. The highest building in , 42 floors. Viewing Platform on the 30th floor at the altitude of 114 m. 2. There are 3288 rooms in the Palace. 3. The Skyscraper is erected as a gift of Soviet Nation for 4. Joseph Stalin is the author of the concept. 5.Architect L. W. Rudniew wants the sky-scraper to incarnate features of the Polish national style. In order to do this he tours well-known Polish cities and towns like Krak�w, Chełm, Zamośćfinding out about Polish architecture. 6. Rudniew and his team are a steam engine of projects. The Polish select a 120 m building design, since their ambition exceeds that level it results in building much bigger edifice. 7. 3,500 Russian workers are employed at the construction site.There is a housing estate built for them together with facilities like: cinema, cafeteria, public club andswimming pool. 8.There are 16 fatal accidents among Russians working at the construction.The year of 1956 starts a series of suicidal jumps from the sightseeing terrace on the 30 storey initiated by a French man. Seven Poles follow him. Those incidents cause installation of metal grid on the sightseeing terrace. 9. On the New Year�s Eve of 2000the biggest tower clock is unveiled on top of the Palace of Culture, its 4 dials are of 6 m long diameter each. This Millenium Clock becomes also the highest tower clock in the world.