Beautiful St. Petersburg is difficult to imaginea city of skyscrapers, but high-rise construction is rapidly breaking into the city of Petra. His first "swallow" will soon be the majestic "Lakhta Center." The Leningrad Tower will not be an ordinary skyscraper, but the second tallest among similar Russian and European structures, bypassing the "Federation" in "Moscow City" and second only to the Ostankino TV tower. While the building is under construction, there is time to learn interesting details about it.
"Lakhta Center", "Lakhta Center" (both spellingsare true) is a public-business complex currently under construction. Its scale explains the fact that the key object of the skyscraper will be the headquarters of the largest Russian corporation Gazprom. The location of the complex is the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. The construction of the tower was started in 2012. Its full completion is planned in the III quarter of 2018.
The maximum planned height of the tower "Gazprom"in St. Petersburg with an antenna / spire - 462 m. The upper level of the latest floor will be located 372 m above the ground. The weight of the structure with filling will be 670 thousand tons. The complex will include not only the tower, but also a multifunctional building that will divide into the northern and southern part of the atrium. The total area of the future building will be 400 thousand meters2. How many floors are in the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg? The final amount will be 87. The building will be serviced by 102 elevators.
Let's touch on the key stages of the construction of the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg:
According to the project team, this tower, aimed at the sky like a rocket at the start, located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, will form, by its appearance and filling, new standards of city life:
The main task of the so-called "Gazprom" tower inSt. Petersburg - to relieve the historical center of business and business activity, and at the same time, the dominance of transport, shifting the focus of this activity to the outskirts of the city. Skyscraper will not only help the second capital to move to a polycentric development model, but also attract significant investments, create new highly paid jobs, and create all conditions for business development.
St. Petersburg is a horizontal city, nothigh-rises. All of its historical high-rise buildings - Admiralty Needle, Isaakievsky, Peter and Paul Cathedral - are the central points around which independent and integral architectural ensembles were lined up. Therefore, in order not to spoil the image of the city museum, it was decided to build a skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the state concern Gazprom, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, away from historical buildings.
The tower is designed to begin to form a "marine façade"Petersburg. Its appearance does not conflict with the "face" of the city - the same theme of a lonely spire on the horizon, the aspiration to skyward, the contours of buildings, reminiscent of the shape of the ship's hull.
Form "Lakhta-center" according to the plan of architectsshould visualize the openness, lightness, freedom, flow of space and energy of the sea. The complex is striving to give the effect of weightlessness and organic unity with the surrounding city and nature. A special kind of insulating glass will help in this, which will allow the building to change its color depending on the mood of the sky.
The popular name of the "Lakhta Center" - the tower of Gazprom, is not entirely true. The "stuffing" project of the complex strikes with its multifunctionality:
We will become acquainted with interesting technical and design features of the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg:
Finally, let us look at the entertaining facts connected with the St. Petersburg tower:
Surprisingly, Russia's tallest skyscraperwill be located in St. Petersburg, the city of contours. In addition to the height, the project "Lakhta-Center" strikes with its multifunctionality, well thought-out concept and the organic nature of the architectural solution.
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