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Zlín Skyscraper

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The Zlín Skyscraper (Building 21) was built for the Baťa shoe company between 1936 and 1938, commissioned by Jan Antonín Baťa. Standing 77.5 metres tall with 16 floors, it was once the second tallest building in Europe, costing 8.8 million Czech crowns. It remains Zlín's defining landmark, located 20 km from Luhačovice.



Zlín is a city about 20 km from the spa town Luhačovice. It is the centre of the Zlín Region. Exchange the spa colonnade for a bit of city bustle. Here too you’ll find several interesting places and even one of the most visited zoos, Zlín Lešná. Right from the start, the tall administrative building will certainly catch your eye.

Zlín Skyscraper

Baťa’s skyscraper was commissioned by Jan Antonín Baťa between 1936 and 1938. The building served as the headquarters of the Baťa shoe company. The building has the number 21, which is why it’s called “twenty-one”. The numbering of buildings followed the American style. The first number indicates the exact location of the building in the complex, as the first digit designates the building’s row (counting from east to west) and the second number represents the building’s row (numbered from south to north). It is situated in the traditional row of factory buildings, directly influencing the work square. The building thus became the city’s landmark.

The skyscraper has 16 floors and is 77.5 metres high. Due to the building’s height, it was the second tallest building in Europe. The total cost at the time was 8,810,410 Czech crowns. Lifts were used to transport employees in the building. Movement between two adjacent floors was provided by a paternoster with 31 cabins. The technical rarity, however, is Jan Antonín Baťa’s own lift office. It measures 6 x 6 metres and is electrically air-conditioned. To enable the cleaning of large windows that couldn’t be opened, a suspended basket was attached to the building. In November 1944, Zlín was bombed, but Baťa’s skyscraper miraculously escaped destruction. In 1959, the ground floor interior of the building was renovated for the Shoe Museum.

Currently, the skyscraper houses the Regional Office of the Zlín Region and the local tax office. On the lower floors there is a restaurant and spaces with permanent exhibitions or areas for current temporary exhibitions. On the building’s terrace on the top floor, there is a café and observation deck. The building has become a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. Many cultural monuments can also be found in nearby Luhačovice.

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