For post-war Europe, the new type of high-rise office building became a symbol of economic renewal and liberation from the shackles of the past. High-rise buildings to a large extent determined the appearance of cities, which is explained by a number of factors: social (expensive land), urban planning (lack of favorable territories),constructive (new opportunities for the frame) and psychological (business success is reflected in high-rise architecture). It should be necessarily noted that at present, the problem of the viability of high-rise buildings is solved mainly due to their multifunctionality and openness: in addition to business, high-rise office buildings accommodate premises for other functional purposes — observatories, viewing platforms, rooms for tourists. Thus, the office building was able to survive, turning from a special to a universal one.
Having evolved over 100 years, the office building has evolved from a monofunctional, special, narrowly utilitarian building into a multifunctional, multi-purpose building that has absorbed. It includes the features of all the most viable types of business centers that dominated in different historical eras. The monofuntional office was replaced by a business center that combines the efficiency of a multi-storey business building with the advantages of a consumer-focused shopping complex.
Thus, during the XXth century, the business function developed both as a function of management, as a function of entrepreneurship, and as a function of constant coordination of the business process. Therefore, business centers by the end of the twentieth century appear in the form of number of options: Ministry, Embassy, Consulate; city (city in the city) and the building of a conglomerate (vertical city); Bureau, Atelier, Studio; the Congress hotel, conference hotel; the trade mission; business school; business club; the machine (display) hall; terminal, a multi-purpose junction at the intersection of transport routes. This list can be continued, but it is more appropriate to state that at present the business center has developed as a new universal type of public building, in which current and potential business functions in all their attributes are revealed at once, depending on socio-economic factors.
BUSINESS CENTERS OF THE XXIst CENTURY
