Baťa’s Skyscraper
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Baťa’s Skyscraper (Zlin's skyscraper, Building No. 21) is a skyscraper in Zlín, the Czech Republic. It is skyscraper, which is 77,5 metres high and has sixteen floors. It was the administration building of the shoemaking factory Bata Shoes. Now it is headquarters of the Zlín Region. This building was one of the first high-rise buildings in Europe - the second tallest after Boerentoren. The building is in constructivist architecture and was designed by Vladimír Karfík.
The building was built between 1937 and 1938 at the order of Jan Antonín Baťa.
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