Briefs

Metropolitan nominated Hines' Metropolitan office building in Warsaw has been nominated for the MIPIM award in the category of the best office center. Other nominees for the award are Tower Place in London and Central City in Vancouver. 37,000 sqm Metropolitan was designed by Foster and Partners. Hochtief Polska was the general contractor of the project. Philips settles for Łódź Following previous information regarding Royal Philips Electronic's plans to move its financial and administrative centre to Poland, it has been anounced that the company has acquired a plot of land in Łódź (Central Poland) for PLN 2.3 mln. Philips plans to build the centre which will outsource works for 20 European countries in finance, accounting and auditing. The company will employ 500 people. Poznań oversupplied The supply of modern office space in Poznań (West Poland) in 2003 was signifficantly larger than that in other regional c