Although this is old news for some of our industry savvy readers, we have still decided to reignite our design flare by showcasing all 6 very striking design proposals for the St. Petersburg headquarters of Gazprom, the Russian state owned oil and gas company - back in 2006.
The wining design (pictured above) was submited by London based studio RMJM. This 300 metre (985 feet) building would controversially tower above the historic 18th century Smolny Cathedral on the Neva River which would be on the opposite side of the river.
Continue reading ‘Many Visions of Gazprom City St. Petersburg’
This video is the proposed showcase of ‘Moscow City’ – the Moscow International Business Centre.
Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC) is an ambitious regeneration project in the Presnenskaya Embankment area in the heart of Moscow’s Kremlin.
The master plan of MIBC was conceived by the Russian government as far back in 1992 with an intention to convert Presnenskaya, an old urban area with old factories and industrial complexes toEastern Europe’s central business hub.
The management company of the project, CITY Joint Stock Company (CITTY JSC), a joint venture between the Russian government and private investors claim that it is currently Russia’s and Europe’s largest investment and construction project.
We recently covered the construction completion of one of the towers - Naberezhnaya Tower. We have to say it is a very ambitious engineering project with 15 distinct developments spread across 30 plots on an enormous 100ha site. The estimated project cost is $12 billion with a completion date slated for 2010.
We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this one and cover more of it’s developments in future posts.
Construction of Naberezhnaya Tower (Moscow International Business Centre) in Presnenskaya embankment area of the Kremlin (Central Moscow), Russia has been completed.
Naberezhnaya Tower incorporates three “A” class office buildings of different heights of 17, 27 and 61 floors. The completion of the 17 and 27-Storey buildings in October 2004 & October 2005 respectively, marked Phase I construction and Phase II’s construction of the third 61-storey skyscraper (Europe’s tallest building) which begun in January 2005 was completed in December 2007.
Continue reading ‘The Naberezhnaya Tower, Moscow - Europe’s Tallest Building’
Not content with building the largest building in the World, Russia has unveiled plans for an even more ambitious project in the black Sea.
Clearly, the Russians have decided that Dubai cannot have all the glory and are determined to show they can go one better than the World project.
Federation Island will be built in the shape of the Russian Federation and will attempt to re-create the country’s geographical features, including rivers and mountains.
The plan is to complete construction before the 2014 winter Olympics. Eventually, the accommodation available will include a wide variety of structures including luxury villas, beach houses, apartments, shops and offices. Plus, we assume, a few hotels. There are plans for dunes, grassland, small forests and of course, Oceanside properties.
Federation island has been designed by Dutch architect, Erick van Egeraat and will be overseen by M-Industries of St. Petersburg. The construction will be undertaken by Witteveen & Bos and the initial dredging by Van Oord Dredging and Marine. The Abu Dhabi company, Allied Business Consultants is investing somewhere in the region of $6.2 billion, although they might find working with Russian labor a little different to their previous experiences.
Sochi itself is a well established resort city with a humid subtropical climate - almost unheard of for Russia. It’s fair to say the infra structure is not quite up to Olympic requirements and the Russian government is scrambling to bring them up to date with an investment of over $1 billion on the electrical system alone
