[Grumpy]

This city is by far the boomtown in Europe and there isn't even a thread here :(

Please add all you find here please so we can have an idea of what is going on in this huge metropolis

Here you can find a list of never realized projects from 1930 > 1950 (http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index_e.htm)

[Grumpy]

World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island

Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet (~2,5miljoen m²) spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion (4 miljard dollar=2,7miljard euro) and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years.

The Crystal Island will be Lord Foster’s second large scale project in the Russian capital, and his third new building design that resembles a volcano (we’re talking about his two mountainous buildings in Astana, Kazakstan). Although many people are calling this design the ‘Christmas Tree’ of Moscow - we can’t help but be reminded of the utopian and also rather volcanic X-Seed 4000 design for Tokyo. Unlike that pipe-dream project, however, Foster has a track record of getting buildings built, so the likelihood is high that we will see this striking structure towering over the Kremlin within 5 years time.

The statistics for the project are absolutely staggering; floor area alone will be four times the size of Pentagon in Washington DC. The incredible 1500 ft (~450m). tall multi use structure will feature 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, sports complex and much more. There will also be a 16,500 space underground parking lot for all the visitors. The Crystal Island visitors will be able to enjoy panoramic views of Moscow on the viewing platforms located 980 ft.(~300m) above ground.

And as we’d expect from Foster + Partners, this soon-to-be world’s biggest building will also incorporate a number of sustainable design features into the overall scheme. The exterior facade will be solar responsive and will include solar panels which, along with wind turbines, will generate electricity for the huge tower. Natural ventilation will be provided thanks to numerous strategically placed large atriums. The internal environment will also have dynamic enclosure panels slotted into the structural framing that will allow daylight to penetrate deep into the heart of the structure; the panels will also be controlled to modify temperature inside the building – closed in winter for extra warmth and opened in summer to allow natural ventilation. Energy management is at the heart of this structure, several on-site renewable and low-carbon energy generation projects are planned.

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/fostergianttower.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/crystalislanddiagram.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/crystalislandrendering.jpg

[anm]

:previous:
Crystal Island location on Moscow map, IBC shown as "city"

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4233/mapcrystalrq6.jpg

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Now, Mosfilm Tower

The tower is located on Pyrieva str. 2., Moscow South-West.
In Russian it is called 'Dom na Mosfilmovskoj'

Don-Stroi company (http://www.donstroy.com/en/complex/?show=descr&id=1648) is building the tower.

2 residential towers
- 203 m 54 floors
- 131 m 34 floors

This estate, is situated in the western part of the capital, in the Mosfilmovskaya Street area on the Vorobyovy Hills. The estate includes two high-rise buildings connected between themselves by parallel low-level sections.
The Building One is shaped as a rectangular helical tower. The core of the building consists of circular-shaped elevator halls on each level that function as a single upright threaded rod holding the composition of the building. The twisted building has its vertical dynamics, its architectural solution uses an original rhythm of window panes: the higher from the ground level, the larger the area of window panes. The facade is decorated with special plates of light-toned natural stone.
The second – the lower – high-rise building, uses several types of special glass: transparent, matte, and variously shaded.
The parallel sections connecting the two high-rise buildings face each other with their passage galleries of glass.

The spacious multi-lighted atrium lobby of the central entrance is decorated with natural rock of warm color, and paneled with honey-waxed wood. This area houses mini-cafes, a bathing room for pets, and a large 90-seat cafe. The door on the right-hand side of the entrance hall leads to the commercial and recreation complex.

The construction plan provides for a real English-style garden with large-size trees such as maples, limes, willows, firs and rowans. English lawns alternate with Moresque lawns that require no mowing. Rye, wheat, and flax are planted in patches as small islands. Part of the premises will be decorated with red plants, flowers, and shrubs.
The main square of the residential estate will have a Japanese hill with a fountain. The sloping wall of Building Two – the smaller tower – will continue in a waterfalls, with cascading water falling into a pool strewn with rock pieces and glacier boulders. For the residents, this will be a veritable oasis in their own yard, an artful imitation of wild nature, with ducks and swans on the mirror of waters.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/Mosfilm1.jpg

http://arxawards.su/upload/form/1b4/Photo2.jpg

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/8252-1/tex_27.jpg

http://i11.tinypic.com/2ilh21c.jpg

by igor, November 2006

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4497/img1901bp8.jpg

by ulex March 2007

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_ulex_/21/7/1.jpg

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_ulex_/21/8/1.jpg

by igor June 2007

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2034/img4827jw6.jpg

photo by Inspirit Aug 2007

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4895/mosf3qe0.jpg

by jst Dec 2007

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/1/d/c/0a8979c70d0bfd82e2d0beb5673fecd1.jpg

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/4/e/5/5020501ab972d1488699322b74c045e4.jpg

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/4/c/0/ba49a9a64b97f56c0da32a5759cf70c4.jpg

by Brad Dec 2007

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/11/go131.0/0_7cce_5ae68f3e_orig

by jst Jan 2008

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/2/0/d/a9236cc45cbdea8b74a9312db5433d02.jpg

by igor Feb 3rd 2008

http://i026.radikal.ru/0802/6d/3a869ade0629.jpg

http://i046.radikal.ru/0802/1c/36a7db19f4a6.jpg

http://i047.radikal.ru/0802/d2/068d05c0fb0e.jpg

[anm]

from http://www.miraxplaza.ru/plaza.html

http://n.foto.radikal.ru/0702/e797c341c91f.jpg

http://n.foto.radikal.ru/0702/2b322a569de6.jpg

http://n.foto.radikal.ru/0702/db2bd9a49ec4.jpg

from http://www.kp.ru/daily/23870.4/64613//

http://www.kp.ru/upimg/photo/68570.jpg

http://i040.radikal.ru/0711/27/a0474642d7f6.jpg

by jst

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/3/a/4/f792ade04323e194df885dfb91fdf4a3.jpg

by mr. MyXiN

http://funkyimg.com/u/53640PICT0017.jpg

http://funkyimg.com/u/80878PICT0018.jpg

June 21 2007 by Axort

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/6711/panorama2rxc7.jpg

Sept 13 2007

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/236/panorama1mw4.jpg

jst Nov 2007

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/3/1/8/cdb15f39dd214a3ba0778c5094053813.jpg

Axort Dec 19 2007

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1894/panorama1rvl3.jpg

by Bolik Dec 27 2007

http://i037.radikal.ru/0712/f7/b64882271840.jpg

Jan 3rd 2008 by jst

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/3/8/a/661ff22bcbbfe2ea7d74d4b56eff0a83.jpg

Axort Jan 9 2008

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/166/img5316au2.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7007/img5322tc8.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8362/panorama1rvo3.th.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=panorama1rvo3.jpg)

jst Jan 9 2008

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/2/8/5/f75a9c03a6aa8273bb056badc9044582.jpg

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/4/5/0/a8f58f98387f48e9e3b03ce87f0af054.jpg

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/1/6/3/1ac7b59f4bc7b70c3ca6ae3f617da361.jpg

[anm]

an early render with spire (was 181 m)

http://www.tromos.ru/objects/vis/obj07/img_01b.jpg

http://www.tromos.ru/objects/vis/obj07/img_10b.jpg

spire was replaced by the "nest"

http://i3.tinypic.com/300vb0k.jpg

Feb 25 2007 by ulex

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_ulex_/12/11/1.jpg

May 14 2007 by Bolik

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/8869-1/Sokolniki_2_14_05_07.jpg

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/8872-1/Sokolniki_3_14_05_07.jpg

June 26 2007 by Bolik

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/9978-1/Sokolniki_1_26_06_07.jpg

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/9984-1/Sokolniki_3_26_06_07.jpg

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/9987-1/Sokolniki_4_26_06_07.jpg

Aug 7 2007 by MaZitRon

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6540/dsc01047ma3.jpg

Sept 25 by jst

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/d/c/3/e3e32ee5ca43dc92cd2e820f3f51d3cd.jpg

Nov 11 2007 by Aleksey



from Dixonk (http://dixonk.photosight.ru/)

[IMG]http://img-2007-11.photosight.ru/20/2420505.jpg

Dec 29 2007 by Aleksey

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/P1010009.jpg

[anm]

Several renders of pproposals

http://dva3.ru//pictures/vis/ext/complex/01.jpg

http://www.archfwa.com/files/project_images/Donstroy04.jpg

from http://donstroy.com/oruzh/

http://funkyimg.com/u/39257Untitled3.jpg

http://funkyimg.com/u/57800Untitled31.jpg

http://donstroy.com/images/main/b7e34152f0e01f8b6818ad6b4117a46c.jpg

apparently this is what is actually being built, photo by igor

http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/78/5bbe690e9627.jpg

Located on Sadovoe Koltso (Garden Ring) not far from Mayakovskaja and Novoslobodsjaka metro stations.

Business center; shopping; finess club; parking.

June 2007 by igor

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/5912/img4878fz9.jpg

Nov 2007 by igor

http://i045.radikal.ru/0711/ab/176a7dc8481c.jpg

[anm]

address: Volgogradskij prospekt, 45

http://www.realty2006.ru/images/members/27/photo_1/AVILON.jpg

by windstride
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2514/dsc06746vt1.jpg

photo antifox2005

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6268/96202664hp7.jpg

photo by igor Dec 2007

http://i016.radikal.ru/0712/98/926e4a5719ec.jpg

[Spocket]

Geez you guys are getting some impressive buildings in Moscow. I would venture to say that Moscow will have one of the most dynamic and impressive skylines in the world once there's enough of them built to symbolize Moscow (as opposed to now where people think of old Stalinist era buildings)

[Grumpy]

There is alot going on over there , thanks for the updates :tup:
That Solniki building is huge :eek:

[anm]

Announced by GC Metropol', one more cluster with a supertall will be built in Moscow. It will be located in south-east of the center on old territory of Moskvich car plant not far from Volgogradksij Prospekt metro station.

The land was purchased on public auction for >$ 200mln in December 2006. The estimated cost of construction $3-4bln.
The tallest tower is 364 meters 70 floors.

Investor: Group of Companies Metropol'
Masterplanning/Design: Nikken Sekkei

The plot on Google Maps (http://maps.google.ru/maps?hl=ru&ie=UTF8&ll=55.721273,37.691023&spn=0.007952,0.019076&t=h&z=16&om=0) and Yandex.Maps (http://maps.yandex.ru/map.xml?mapID=2000&mapX=4195550&mapY=7467861&scale=10&slices=2.3)

Good pics later. Only small pics from news agencies.

http://www.pro-n.ru/img/pics/large/2765.jpg

http://static.bn.ru/uploads/2008_01/12016878442108633218b.jpg http://moscow.newsru.com/images/big/93_17_931715_1201618219.jpg http://moscow.newsru.com/images/big/93_17_931716_1201618234.jpg http://gzt.ru/img/20080129202900.jpg

[Bergenser]

Moscow impress me again,
Europes only skyscrapercity to mach Global standards
aka: NYC, HK, CHICAGO, Shanghai and Dubai.

[R@ptor]

Is Moscow's infrastructure even able to handle all of these projects. From what I've heard it is already really strained.

Are there any plans for new subway lines as well?

[anm]

Yes R@ptor, they are building metro now at the rate of about 10-15 km of new lines per year and are promising to acclerate to about 30 km/per year in a few years

Transit insfrastructure is strained for several reasons that are being addressed after years of inactivity.

1. After Soviet Union collaps, during hyperinflation of late 80s early 90s - there was no way to finance big projects such as metro construction. Metro construction has been frozen and cost milliions of $$ to just keep the unfinished lines in frozen state.

This situation is reversed now; there are plans to double the length of Moscow metro lines from about 300 km now to 600-650 km by 2025.

2. Moscow has never had a business district, so offices are currently dispersed all over the center of the city (mostly within Garden Ring). Obviously, a lot of rush hour traffic is heading into the center of the city causing jams.

This situation is being addressed by construction of IBC and other business districts as the one shown above. These scraper clusters are located on or outside third transport ring (several km outside the Garden Ring). As the new office buildings are completed, businesses will be forced out of the historic center. The density of traffic in the city center should be reduced.

3. When few people had cars and most used public transit, the surface modes of transit such as busses and trolley busses performed much better than now. Today, you can sit in a trafiic jam on a trolley-bus just as frustrated as in cars sorrounding it.

This will addressed by construction of high-speed light rail which does not share the road with cars and is grade-separated at most critical intersections. Monorail line will be exteneded.

4. The road infrastructure is being improved as well.

So, it is not all pink and rosy, and there are big problems, but they are working on it.

[anm]

from official site

http://www.opin.ru/projects_7.html

total floor area 132 000 sq. м
Expected completion - 2008.

http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg18.jpg http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg19.jpg http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg20.jpg

http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg21.jpg http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg22.jpg http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg23.jpg

http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg24.jpg http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg25.jpg http://www.opin.ru/store/ru/pg/simg26.jpg

from http://www.aburov.ru/projects/view/?id=30

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/projects/pic_30_1

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/projects/pic_30_2

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/projects/pic_30_3

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/projects/pic_30_4

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/projects/pic_30_5

from http://www.aburov.ru/news/view/?7, Aug 2007

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/editor/700-1.jpg

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/editor/700-2.jpg

http://www.aburov.ru/pics/editor/700-3.jpg


Feb 2008 by Worg

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/11/gorinaki.8/0_b0c2_74318f81_XL

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2681/saharov1finalsh3.jpg

[Grumpy]

I like the Metropolia project, a cluster on its own.
Often the new buildings are really huge, something not to be seen out of Moscow, is there a reason to built such buildings ?

[anm]

^^

1. not sure what you mean when you say "not to be seen out of Moscow", plenty of supertalls are being built all over the world
Oh, I guess you mean not Europe.

2. the reasons for building supertalls in Moscow are the same as anywhere else in the world - they are a statement of might and power, they attract attention, become focal point of a skyline , bring visibility to the city and occupants of the building; become iconic images of the place, i.e. they satisfy ego

[anm]

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4123/cam01vj1.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/7218/cam02verhupdza1.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/5125/cam02oldnightgt3.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/9177/cam0302ds9.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/7984/cam1111hd5.jpg

http://www.arxawards.su/experts/project.php?id=901

by ulex Sept 29 2007

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_ulex_/19/44/1.jpg

by sergeipiano Jan 15 2008

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/Khorosh3corp150108panorama/Khorosh3corp150108panorama.jpg

Feb 02 2008

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/Khorosh3corp0030208panorama1/Khorosh3corp0030208panorama.jpg

Feb 07 2008

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/73/1.jpg

[anm]

http://i025.radikal.ru/0802/df/5ac16c9983f4.jpg

by Sontucio Sept 2007

Источник (source

http://tushinec.ru/tushinka/gallery/album/archive/7848/16.jpg

http://tushinec.ru/tushinka/gallery/album/archive/7840/08.jpg

by Yarik Feb 2008

http://smages.com/i/dc/78/dc78bc93be50aa76b047502e3082ee60.jpg

http://smages.com/i/69/eb/69eb29c801663e383ec907c90c64b0c7.jpg

[Grumpy]

found this : from today to 2106 (http://www.federationtower.ru/)

[anm]

Yeah, by 2106 Earth will have two Moons and we will travel there by a taxi cab fom Moscow. And by 2062 Eurasia Tower will be cut in half and converted to a golf course... or so Mirax wishes.

My honest projection is that Eurasia Tower will top out before Federation Tower is completed (including the spire).

[anm]

Just finished.

by bolik Sept 2007

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/11361-1/mos_10.jpg

by igor Oct 2007

http://i045.radikal.ru/0710/53/c0d1f21d26ce.jpg

by Aleksey Dec 2007

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/P1010006-1.jpg

and another one from LiveJournal (http://community.livejournal.com/moy...va/760926.html)

http://gallery.razon.ru/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3246&g2_serialNumber=1

[anm]

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/1.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/2.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/3.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/4.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/5.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/6.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/7.jpg

http://www.arhmc.ru/images/projects/9/8.jpg

sergeypiano June 2006

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/s/e/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/14/1.jpg

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/s/e/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/15/1.jpg

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/s/e/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/16/1.jpg

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/s/e/sergeypiano/Khoroshevka220/17/1.jpg

Kventz May 2007

http://www.kventz.ru/moscow/city/images/gradex_070510_01_big.jpg

Brad Aug 2007

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6489/09dm5.jpg

ulex Sept 2007

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_ulex_/19/48/1.jpg

igor Oct 2007

http://i008.radikal.ru/0710/a8/ed71cee8df96.jpg

Abwer Nov 2007

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/8/d/f/8ffd00d57a12de0b3b5c3f473c359fd8.jpg

ulex Jan 2008

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_ulex_/19/52/1.jpg

Abwer Feb 2007

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/4/3/a/1a67b58aed822d0d04a3d21e3c263a34.jpg

Brad Feb 2007

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/20/go131.0/0_b598_227472f5_orig

[bvpcvm]

World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island

Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet (~2,5miljoen m²) spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion (4 miljard dollar=2,7miljard euro) and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years.

[...]

The statistics for the project are absolutely staggering; floor area alone will be four times the size of Pentagon in Washington DC. The incredible 1500 ft (~450m). tall multi use structure will feature 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, sports complex and much more. There will also be a 16,500 space underground parking lot for all the visitors. The Crystal Island visitors will be able to enjoy panoramic views of Moscow on the viewing platforms located 980 ft.(~300m) above ground.


doesn't this seem just a bit ridiculous? just think of the traffic jams this thing is going to create. to say nothing of the size. it looks like ego run wild.

[anm]

doesn't this seem just a bit ridiculous? just think of the traffic jams this thing is going to create.

I am not so sure about traffic jams. Somehow I suspect people who plan it are not total idiots and will figure out logistics before it is built. For instance, I heard that there will be a metro station on the island (existing line goes under it).

[bvpcvm]

warning - rant:

the metro? are you kidding me? NO ONE who has any self-respect (i'm told) takes the metro these days (i'm rolling my eyes, but friends in moscow insist that they absolutely have to drive to work - that the mere thought of anyone seeing them coming out of the metro gives them shudders. in fact, one i know drives an hour and a half each way from chertanovskaya to dobryninskaya - the height of madness, in my book, given that's about 18 minutes on the metro).

ok, sarcasm aside, i was actually quite appalled at the degree of pomposity and the obsession with prestige when i visited this past fall. ok, given i'm writing from portland, oregon, where anything big is automatically viewed with a high degree of suspicion, but i know moscow pretty well and will even admit (sheepishly) to being impressed by wide avenues and massive ministries - but this project is just ridiculous. i'm sure the builders aren't idiots, but i have to suspect that the first thing on their minds is that those arabs (!) down in dubai (!!) are building all this wild architecture, how can we let them outdo us??? oh yeah, traffic and so on, sure, no eto melochi, ne interesno, glavnoye: PO-BOL'SHE!!!!! (i PO-DOROZHE!!!!!!!!!!)

as my wife and i were discussing this today (gleefully "vorchatting"), she pointed out the beginning scenes of Sluzhebniy Roman, where Myakgov is going on and on about "gorod slyshkom zabyt lyudmi, slyshkom bol'shoi", but, while on the surface he may be complaining, in fact there's this inner gordost' at the thought that, yes, moscow is indeed a big deal, a player on the world stage, exciting, dynamic, full of crowds and traffic - just like NYC or London or Tokyo. and of course, that film was made back in the 70's; these days i hear that attitude loud and clear bez kontsa. it used to be "we've got the biggest dams in the world" (or, the joke goes, "the biggest pocket calculators in the world!!", now it's "the biggest traffic jams in the world", which are presented as proof that moscow is not an overgrown village, but an Actual City.

also, given the buildings in the background (on the opposite riverbank) this looks like it's on Prospekt Andropova (link (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=55.694713,37.677784&spn=0.034926,0.124283&z=14)) - unless they build totally new roads *through ZIL* (which, ok, that might be possible, they're removing a bunch of ZIL, anyway, right?), the only access will be across one bridge each from the north and south. an excellent recipe for a traffic disaster. sure it's a spectacular setting, but geez...

[and, my wife adds, what happens when the turkish construction firm, in order to meet deadlines, builds too quickly, the cement doesn't cure long enough and then one winter evening the snow collects just a little too deeply on that spectacular glass roof...]

[bvpcvm]

^ actually, some further googling revealed a few other renderings in which it appears at least one other multilane road (with tunnel under the river, it looks like) will be built.

also, yes, anm, you're right about the metro station, it's called TeknoPark. it's actually being built for another development, which is currently under construction on the south half or so of what used to be ZIL.

[bvpcvm]

one other complaint about all this new development, if i may. i think some muscovites are so carried away with this whole obsession with prestige and security ("you see? i'm so important, you can't even approach my building!"), that they're forgetting some of the positive things of soviet planning. for one thing (i admit this is theoretical and wasn't always carried out this way - but at least there was a theory!), buildings were built with a certain amount of space between them, which allowed for sunlight to reach even the first floors. there was quite often retail space on the ground floor, and cars definitely took second place to pedestrians. you could actually go for a walk around your neighborhood.

now, however, all these elitniye buildings are being built surrounded by large parking lots, security gates with their "unter prishibeyev"-esque security guards. the pedestrian environment around these places - at least the ones i've seen - definitely suffers, because they try so hard to wall themselves off from the public. oh, i know it goes down well with that segment of society whose dearest wish is to impress everyone else with their inaccessibility, but given the way major retail and offices are moving out to the MKAD, moscow is on track to go from an occasionally pleasant world city to a parody of the worst of american exurbia (in other words, Phoenix, but colder).

[anm]

Your observation of petty car owners refusing metro only to spend hours in traffic jams is correct, I have myself met a guy who bragged that he had not been in metro in 10 years. I have no sympathy for them. Let them suffer and lose time, if they can afford it. Metro system itself is no danger to becoming empty. The good news is that improvements are coming on all fronts - road infrustructure, metro construction, off-street parking structures, new office space outside Garden ring, high speed light rail and expansion of monorail, etc.

As for Moscow becoming pedestrian unfriendly, I do not think it will get much worse than it is now. Due to high population density majority of the people will never drive and will have to use public transit. Thus the city will always have heavy pedestrian traffic. Hopefully they will forbid the practice of parking and driving on sidewalks and what used to be green areas in backyards. Drivers will learn to respect pedestrians. I understand it will not happen overnight.

Regarding Dubai, I honestly do not think that Moscow cares too much about what happens there. They can build in that desert whatever they want, to a Muscovite it is more a curiousity rather than a challenge.

[bvpcvm]

yeah, you're right about the metro - it's certainly not losing passengers. the few people i know who admit to taking the metro insist that it's more crowded than ever, but it didn't seem any worse than in the 90's; in fact, maybe even a bit better.

and i certainly hope that the pedestrian environment improves (haha: it's so bad currently that it can only get better, right?), i just don't see much reason for it to get better. in fact, there was an article recently in the exile (go ahead and roll your eyes; i don't read it regularly) in which, apparently, some minister of road safety ran a red light - going the wrong way! - on ulitsa solyanka a couple weeks back and of course hit some woman who was crossing legally. supposedly, at a press conference the next day, the minister's press secretary pooh-poohed the whole incident and blamed the pedestrian (who was seriously injured) for the accident. with attitudes like that, i'm not optimistic.

[anm]

yeah, you're right about the metro - it's certainly not losing passengers. the few people i know who admit to taking the metro insist that it's more crowded than ever, but it didn't seem any worse than in the 90's; in fact, maybe even a bit better.

As far as I can tell, rush hour is not as intense as it was in late 80s, but during the middle of the day the human traffic does not decrease as much as it used to, so on average - maybe about the same, but more evenly spread during the day.

and i certainly hope that the pedestrian environment improves (haha: it's so bad currently that it can only get better, right?), i just don't see much reason for it to get better. in fact, there was an article recently in the exile (go ahead and roll your eyes; i don't read it regularly) in which, apparently, some minister of road safety ran a red light - going the wrong way! - on ulitsa solyanka a couple weeks back and of course hit some woman who was crossing legally. supposedly, at a press conference the next day, the minister's press secretary pooh-poohed the whole incident and blamed the pedestrian (who was seriously injured) for the accident. with attitudes like that, i'm not optimistic.

I do not know if this story is true but can easily beleive it. Still, I hope there will be gradual improvement. Moscow had very few cars in Soviet times, then was rapidly saturated with cars but infrastructure lagged behind. Of course it would help if people respected each other more, it does not cost any money...

[anm]

Status of some projects by Evrasia 99911 from SCC
Feb 22 2008

http://i038.radikal.ru/0802/51/12460ec34833.jpg

[anm]

http://dva3.ru//pictures/vis/ext/krylatskoe/01.jpg

Bolik April 4 2006

http://highriserussia.com/gallery/d/3476-1/prof_1_04_04_06.jpg

LYNX June 25 2006

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/6/5/2/17708c7a571edee8a09df50239760256.jpg

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/2/b/0/d6b6ae778e90df80726f2d90bdd220b2.jpg

March 28 2007©http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gifgershgorin (http://gershgorin.livejournal.com/)


http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/g/e/gershgorin2/28-03-vid-3.jpg

coth May 7 2007

http://highriserussia.com/gallery/d/8678-1/IMG_2071.jpg

LYNX May 26 2007

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/9/7/8/cff7a0f9622ca5c5ab66a6f3d07e5879.jpg

PANALEKS Sept 18 2007

http://ro.foto.radikal.ru/0709/81/432584af02bb.jpg

GrandFarmer Feb 21 2008

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/15/grandfarmer.0/0_8a77_435c8889_orig

[anm]

Gradex, Feb 23 2008 by Abwer

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/3/3/6/305e9e9a2b179706c4a79669385b4633.jpg

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/2/7/6/421ff68c2c5b75eebfdddbd0db562672.jpg

[anm]

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4347/cimg8461dd2.jpg

http://i004.radikal.ru/0710/2f/991f22eb11f4.jpg

http://i011.radikal.ru/0711/21/c2ba55131ba0.jpg

http://i025.radikal.ru/0711/d8/03e10ffe0da7.jpg

Feb 23 2008 by manualrus

http://i030.radikal.ru/0802/d3/6fb9727a80b0.jpg

Feb 25 2008 by meouth

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8047/06cska250208dy8.jpg

[anm]

March 6 2008 by sergeipiano

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/sergeypiano/2/Khorosh3corp060308panorama/Khorosh3corp060308panorama.jpg

[anm]

Metropolia tallest tower 364 m, see above

better renders as promised

http://photofile.name/photo/gronoff/3231096/116496541.jpg

http://www.metropolcity.com/gfx/01.jpg

http://www.metropolcity.com/gfx/04.jpg

http://www.metropolcity.com/gfx/05.jpg

http://www.metropolcity.com/gfx/02.jpg

http://www.metropolcity.com/gfx/03.jpg

[anm]

2 page pdf file

http://www.michaniki.com/newsite/pdfs/ALEXANDERTHEGREAT.pdf

http://www.michaniki.com

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/7299/michanikichimki3yk3.jpg

the location is near Leningradskoe Shosse (continuation of Tverskaja leading to Sheremet'evo) and the ring freeway encircling Moscow

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3999/michanikichimki1cl2.jpg


http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5446/michanikichimki2vm4.jpg


http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5720/michanikichimki4op5.jpg


“Alexander the Great” is a Class – A modern Office – Hotel and Apartment complex that will be developed right next to the intersection of Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), Leningradskoe Highway and Molodezhnaya Street.
Further to the core uses, “Alexander the Great” has been designed in order to fulfill the majority of all the supplementary needs of the inhabitants and the working population. It will include service premises such as commercial shops, restaurants, fitness clubs and conference halls among others. Parking space, one of the most emerging problems of all the business centers in the city of Moscow nowadays will be available both for the end users and for the visitors of the complex. For the working people that are not going to make use of private transportation, a shuttle service will be developed in order to connect “Alexander the Great” with the closest metro and public transportation station that will operate during the peak hours.
The area of the site is approximately 2 hectares. The site has more than convenient transportation access from the Moscow Ring Road, Kurkinskoe Highway, Leningradskoe Highway, Panfilova Street and Molodezhnaya Street, which make it one of the most convenient locations both from the inner Moscow City side and the from outer outskirts of Moscow side. The last but not least access characteristic of “Alexander the Great” is that the distance from Moscow’s main international airport, Sheremetyevo is not greater than fifteen minutes.
According to the architectural concept, there is the provision of the development of three separate high-rise buildings: a 4-star hotel with rooms and apartments, and two office buildings. Each of the buildings has a 4-level underground parking and a developed 2-floor stylobate part including office entrance halls, lunch halls, conference halls, fitness clubs and shops. Furthermore, every building in the complex is served by a ring road and has access to an open parking space. The office buildings have flexible planning and are delivered for the accommodation of companies on a rent or sale basis.
Each of the buildings will be equipped with high-speed lifts, evacuation fire-prevention ladders, and helicopter platforms on the exploitable flat roof.
For the surrounding areas, there is the provision of constructing roads, passages, asphalted parking lots and tiled sidewalks are provided. Lawns, trees and shrubs are to be planted in the Complex, including the exploitable flat roof.
High-quality modern materials will be used for the construction of the facades and for the internal furnishing of the buildings of the Complex.
Night and holiday illumination of the project will provide a decorative highlight for the whole Complex and will be done by means of modern light-emitting diode systems that provide static and dynamic light image and color sensing of the Complex.

[anm]

http://i033.radikal.ru/0803/31/5c39d8d130fd.jpg

http://i024.radikal.ru/0803/81/1ed8f0eec25b.jpg

http://i004.radikal.ru/0803/f4/3072f150d20f.jpg

http://i029.radikal.ru/0803/c5/1fca22024139.jpg

http://i038.radikal.ru/0803/86/ff1b983220c9.jpg

http://www.imperskydom.ru/

photo by igor

http://i036.radikal.ru/0803/23/f068a856de11.jpg

http://i030.radikal.ru/0803/c0/65feeeb80dd7.jpg

[bvpcvm]

is that TsDKh lurking in the background of the first photo?

a couple days ago the moscow times had an article about apparent plans to replace it (TsDKh). from what i remember, a company we've heard of but whose name escapes me at the moment (owned by yelena baturina - mayor luzhkov's wife) came up with "conceptual" renderings for a project on the current site of TsDKh (16-story luxury apts or something - actually, that looks like what you've posted here), and of course the union of artists or whoever owns it had no idea there were any such plans under foot. given that baturina's involved i expect it's a project that will eventually happen.

[anm]

The company, owned by Elena Baturina (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/GXNS.html)(Luzhkov's wife) is Inteko.

The proposal is by Norman Foster & Co is called "Orange"

http://www.rb.ru/img/content/PO5866iprojectiorangeiDAYi02.jpg

http://www.rb.ru/img/content/PO5866iprojectiorangei04.jpg

some Russian links expressing diffrent views

http://realty.rbc.ru/regions/news.shtml?url=2008/03/11/12302942&region=msk
http://www.rbcdaily.ru/2008/03/13/market/329067
http://beauty-n-beast.livejournal.com/150658.html?style=mine
http://www.arendator.ru/articles/1/art/20425/
http://agency.archi.ru/news_current.html?nid=5521
http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/20080320215744.shtml
http://www.arendator.ru/articles/1/art/20570/

At this point it is not much more than a proposal. The idea of demolition and complete reconstruction of the TsDKh has been up in the air for 15 years or so. The building is structurally sound and does not require major repairs. However, the superb art content calls for more inspiring houusing than this 60-s gray box. The problem is how to do it that everybody is happy - the Tret'jakov Gallery, Moscow Artist's Union, all schedueled exhibitions, etc.

My opinion about this project - I like the render but think that it does not fit in this particular location - too close to Kremlin. I'd prefer that they build it somewhere else outside Garden Ring.

[anm]

http://i034.radikal.ru/0711/80/440244ae17e1.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_02.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_03.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_04.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_05.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_07.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_08.jpg

http://www.m-mm.ru/m/tricolor2/tricolor2_10.jpg



igor Feb 05 2008

http://i012.radikal.ru/0802/f5/cb42abe7c3d3.jpg

http://i005.radikal.ru/0802/bb/e9109eaa293d.jpg

http://i011.radikal.ru/0802/a7/6d74c965b4e7.jpg

http://i021.radikal.ru/0802/5b/0e7dc666ff2c.jpg

[anm]

http://b0.imgsrc.ru/a/agkv7679/6995145Kjo.jpg

by ulex

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_/u/_ulex_/2/1/1.jpg

Sept 1st 2004

http://www.7211000.ru/images/3546f9ce2c2a781aea5e8e7ed91fb6c1.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/d73d1df292720d00ca5bc867c710e3b3.jpeg

ulex June 11 2005

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_/u/_ulex_/2/2/2.jpg

Oct 29 2005

http://foto.rambler.ru/public/_/u/_ulex_/2/18/1.jpg

April 29 2006

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_/u/_ulex_/2/22/1.jpg

Worg

Jan 15 2007

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1253/dsc00031gi0.jpg

Jan 29 2007

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3690/miraxtc9.jpg

April 15 2007

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3013/img1754mfi5.jpg

from Mirax official site (http://www.7211000.ru/content/38/dynamics.html)

June 2007

http://www.7211000.ru/images/53fcaa421e25ab2acc76198935227848.jpeg

Aug 2007

http://www.7211000.ru/images/24940d72d36896c30cc6f7e486795ecb.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/606d0ea65c4d796fe8d969636f2791ea.jpeg

Nov 9 2007

http://www.7211000.ru/images/f41ff6928b53e1d27568699fb69edfed.jpg

Nov 27

http://www.7211000.ru/images/8ddcb5e08f135586b8bb938ea1eced73.jpg

views from Mirax-Park 2007
by 84

http://pics.livejournal.com/leshka76/pic/000020sw

http://pics.livejournal.com/leshka76/pic/00001g1q

http://pics.livejournal.com/leshka76/pic/00003xr0

http://pics.livejournal.com/leshka76/pic/00004056

http://pics.livejournal.com/leshka76/pic/00005cbx

http://pics.livejournal.com/leshka76/pic/00006gyb

http://b0.imgsrc.ru/a/agkv7679/7002993LKK.jpg

http://b0.imgsrc.ru/a/agkv7679/7372718XrR.jpg

http://b0.imgsrc.ru/a/agkv7679/7372722UjD.jpg

http://b0.imgsrc.ru/a/agkv7679/7372728HxU.jpg


Oct 2007 by LetchikLekha http://letchikleha.livejournal.com/45104.html#cutid1

http://www.letchikleha.info/Kenig/11.jpg


Worg Jan 7 2008

http://b0.imgsrc.ru/w/worg/6896875VMA.jpg


igor March 26 2008

http://i007.radikal.ru/0803/6e/330c2c8000d5.jpg

http://i005.radikal.ru/0803/65/eee1275f9482.jpg

http://i025.radikal.ru/0803/6d/d47eaa45cb44.jpg

[Bergenser]

Nice update, there's such a huge number of projects in Moscow.

[anm]

This project is almost finished. If I had money, I would not mind owning an apartment in this complex, perhaps a penthouse.

http://www.7211000.ru/images/222300d4607f4049f601adbf8e9d60b0.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/90bd5d8b96e954fbb3ba01c3fc292648.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/47ce0b3ee8ce9e94c49700e6c3a9e2a7.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/92f405fa70d0e03623f43a7aaa5a52bf.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/d1baca75037a0dfc961d98b155eb2ff1.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/c736cd0343044fd9e286d83f83d7dd00.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/afde0a7797d9e448de91b359e94a63cb.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/06b4dd7416ec084fa6a0c1ed34f6b718.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/4e55da30d7f23adda5767b418a72db7f.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/d81714003208e146d6976130528371e2.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/592d47a1fab3b3950ca8d5ff07ad3df5.jpeg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/3070a84921bff2dba1d53ebd3efc305d.jpeg

from official site http://www.mirax.ru/content/40/dynamics.html

Oct 1st 2004
http://www.7211000.ru/images/fd0606052110a87e81962b2ef10218c7.jpeg

Jan 14 2005
http://www.7211000.ru/images/615e16e501fe650274be3f96e806ba8f.jpeg

March 1st 2005
http://www.7211000.ru/images/d5076af85377b7b13325f5d9465e0586.jpeg

March 14 2005
http://www.7211000.ru/images/6d7912fde1622ce4718d0a244338bced.jpeg

May 11 2005
http://www.7211000.ru/images/a99fafe6a316f6033840f5a7a15f2ada.jpeg

June 14 2005
http://www.7211000.ru/images/663f859d09655f1d6925ceb6f42e40b8.jpeg

Aug 2nd 2005
http://www.7211000.ru/images/b03bad7cb723089339abbaa966643994.jpeg

Jan 17 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/58bdedba651a2471fc6e276092bbe358.jpeg

Feb 21 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/e7f77acf3fec3dfbe29c4b0b39663a72.jpeg

March 23 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/2d350c4f5c7878034f4cc0c5565d5e09.jpeg

May 10 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/698d7482625fafcdb094370fa30442c4.jpeg

June 8 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/f25ec68f0a829bd7eac1065e1a3c70a5.jpeg[omg]

July 4th 2006
[img]http://www.7211000.ru/images/fcf4db4c8b6279252e0592d68ce39cff.jpeg

Aug 1st 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/c9ef1448b53f01aca335efc0abdb2955.jpeg

Sept 5th 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/061b94bfc1d0da939727d31ace5e27c7.jpeg

Dec 4 2006
http://www.7211000.ru/images/8f4f860f0251aa8a976337c14c20b998.jpeg

mr. MyXiN
June 18 2007
http://www.7211000.ru/images/763272266a790646167ad828dc018f34.jpeg

Inspirit
Aug 21st 2007

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/425/kriviera1wy5.jpg

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9954/kriviera2yt4.jpg

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6065/kriviera3zy4.jpg

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/5993/kriviera4oz5.jpg

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/8586/kriviera5so5.jpg

nearby surroundings
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/2766/krivierapanovg1nc1.jpg

from off. site, Sept 2007
http://www.7211000.ru/images/c6af7b457c6a8d99c8b39afad3d9e613.jpeg

Nov 2007
http://www.7211000.ru/images/0f98558db3d98095f134c8b2d04d609b.jpeg

Oceanlab
Jan 10 and 22 2008

http://www.7211000.ru/images/19d4bf87e9182776b5f0ca21d748490c.jpg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/6651be1c80df32d1dc5f93460c29eb30.jpg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/805229c396b2f1cfacc7ed905516c208.jpg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/3dcb137bdbac4d463ecf772878f72d2a.jpg

http://www.7211000.ru/images/74051b9d56679404b999f26cd16903a2.jpg

off site
March 2008

http://www.mirax.ru/images/0078fd3c3079c0bb8570b098bc249515.jpg

http://www.mirax.ru/images/05cac88cad4f346f13b42e869d2b8e92.jpg

http://www.mirax.ru/images/cb9eb58beb8b61b84794476a04df3c27.jpg

Aleksey
March 30 2008

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/P1010202.jpg

[anm]

March 31 2008 by Evrasia99911, Gradex

http://i014.radikal.ru/0803/48/9b37af5e42e8.jpg

http://i029.radikal.ru/0803/7b/0080e54c14c5.jpg

March 22 2008, Nordstar Tower by sergeypiano

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/sergeypiano/2/Khorosh3corp220308panorama/Khorosh3corp220308panorama.jpg

March 28 2008, Nordstar Tower by jst

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/e/8/0/d334ff52d329424c266f90f1c4e5608e.jpg

March 31 2008 by Evrasia99911, Nordstar Tower

http://i048.radikal.ru/0803/2f/686ffcd0b880.jpg

[anm]

http://www.nord-park.ru/

http://www.reserve.ru/image.php?id=253

construction began in 2005

ulex March 4th 2006

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_/u/_ulex_/15/2/1.jpg

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/_/u/_ulex_/15/4/1.jpg

olik April 4th 2006

http://highriserussia.com/gallery/d/3470-1/nord_park_1_04_04_06.jpg

May 25 2006

http://highriserussia.com/gallery/d/3924-1/nord_5.jpg

Ysh June 26 2006

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/18/cimg28461mw.jpg

Aleksey June 2006

http://photofile.ru/photo/iid/1368618/29266046.jpg

igor Sept 22 2006

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8970/img0202sh7.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1166/img0184qv5.jpg

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/2835/img0195qd0.jpg

Aleksey April 26 2007

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/sp.jpg

Bolkik May 17 2007

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/9025-1/mos_35.jpg

igor June 2007

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6185/img4714ri5.jpg

Bolik June 2007

http://skyscrapers.ru/gallery/d/9784-1/01.jpg

Om81 June 2007

http://foto.mail.ru/mail/om81/FF/s-14.jpg

igor July 2007

http://rb.foto.radikal.ru/0707/83/0a743115d40f.jpg

RiverPilgrim Sept 2007
http://riverpilgrim.livejournal.com/62102.html

http://www.riverpilgrim.ru/lj/city/msk/himkinskoe/009.jpg

http://www.riverpilgrim.ru/lj/city/msk/himkinskoe/005.jpg

Yarik Dec 21 2007

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/14/yarikch.7/0_4727_5534e725

makZer March 21 2008

http://photofile.ru/photo/makzer/3508420/76156084.jpg

Evrasia 99911 April 1st 2008

http://i043.radikal.ru/0804/0b/89e5fecfd4ed.jpg

http://i020.radikal.ru/0804/65/86ab21b712b8.jpg

http://i015.radikal.ru/0804/11/0989f002245f.jpg

[anm]

photo by Worg March 29 2008

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/16/gorinaki.b/0_d4b4_2b6720d1_XL.jpg

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/23/gorinaki.b/0_d4b5_ae3f27e3_XL.jpg

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/23/gorinaki.b/0_d4b6_2552764c_orig

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/24/gorinaki.b/0_d4b7_b56a28fd_orig

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/22/gorinaki.b/0_d4b8_c9a43e6e_XL.jpg

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/16/gorinaki.b/0_d4b9_63c5b26f_orig

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[anm]

Metropolia video

2dXKFZiMLEM

[anm]

http://agency.archi.ru/object_current.html?id=234

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http://www.moscowtimes.ru

CANNES, France -- Construction of a $300 million, 325,000-square-meter shopping and retail center that will change the face of northwestern Moscow forever is set to begin next summer.

The ambitious development was among many Russian real estate projects presented Tuesday at the MIPIM property exhibition, held annually in Cannes.

Located on a 12-hectare plot of land next to Voikovskaya metro station on Leningradskoye Shosse, the Metropolis complex will feature 80,000 square meters of office space in three Class-A towers, nine to 12 stories high; parking capacity for 4,000 cars; and 113,000 square meters of retail space, with over 200 shops and restaurants and a multiplex.

The project is being developed by Kazakhstan's Capital Partners, which is financed by a group of Kazakh banking conglomerates. The group includes Kazkommerzbank, which helps the company structure its financing. Capital Partners' other high-profile Moscow project is the construction of the luxury Ritz Carlton hotel on Tverskaya Ulitsa, scheduled to open in early 2006.

Yalin Gur, senior project manager at Capital Partners, said the company -- which has already received approval from City Hall's architectural council -- was expecting to begin construction on the site this summer. The complex should open in 2007, he said.


Market experts are estimating that the project could cost somewhere around $300 million, double the $150 million Capital Partners planned to invest in the construction of the Ritz.

The Metropolis project envisages complete redevelopment of the area, currently occupied by Soviet-era glass-and-concrete buildings. Plans include the construction of a large plaza between the office complex and the shopping center, and relocation of a bus stop in front of the metro station.

The project will also involve serious landscaping work, which should make the development -- surrounded by unappealing Soviet blocks -- more pleasing to the eye.

Leningradskoye Shosse is notoriously congested, and the area around Voikovskaya is known for its traffic jams. Capital Partners is planning to add two lanes to the road, as well as build a circle around the entire complex, Gur said.

Metropolis will be located right on Moscow's planned Fourth Ring Road, potentially one of the best locations for a shopping mall in the city. However, construction of the ring road has recently been postponed, and it is not likely to be completed until after Metropolis opens its doors to shoppers and tenants.

Still, Metropolis will be the largest shopping center in Moscow proper, as the record-setting Mega malls are on the Moscow Ring Road, technically in the Moscow region.

"Metropolis has the potential to become one of the best shopping centers, spelling trouble for some of its competitors located further from the center along Leningradskoye Shosse, such as Ramstore City," said Michael Lange, managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle.

The area around Voikovskaya has not been known as an office location in the past, but Capital Partners has made the right choice in including Class-A offices, said Sergei Riabokobylko, managing director at Cushman & Wakefield Stiles & Riabokobylko.

"This part of Moscow has enormous potential, but they'll have to work hard on traffic issues," he said, adding that proximity to the metro and the location on Leningradskoye Shosse, which connects Sheremetyevo Airport and central Moscow, all work in the project's favor.

photo by Evrasia99911

April 1 2008

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April 24 2008

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[anm]

there are two things (at least) going on - reconstruction of the old terminal and construction of a new one (although it is being argued by some that "reconstruction" is actually a construction of new terminal as well)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Nemerov/a7d9bf1806aa1.jpg

the "reconstruction" part is in brown, the new terminal is yellow, the rest is being planned

according to dates on this board it should have been finished by now, but it is still U/C

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2347/img3397hc2.jpg

www.avia.ru

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photo by coth Aug 1 2006

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photo by Advocate Aug 5 2007

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photo by Iggis Nov 2007

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photo by Grandfarmer Jan 2008

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by Iggis Jan 2008

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http://www.domodedovo.ru/img/news/2008/04/10/1.jpg

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http://www.domodedovo.ru/ru/main/news/press_rel/?ID=2128

http://www.avia.ru/pr/?id=11524

Nick L April 24 2008

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http://i012.radikal.ru/0804/54/27f1925b2cd7.jpg

[anm]

photo by Aleksey May 18, 2008

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[anm]

photo by neodjdeonisden May 14, 2008

http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/neodjdeonisden1/3/1/1.jpg

by MakZer

http://photofile.ru/photo/makzer/3508420/xlarge/77538816.jpg

by periskop_ru

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g233/periskop_ru/Moscow/mosk_e10.jpg

by Brad

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/16/go131.1/0_e205_4a5ac8a3_orig

[anm]

June 10 2008 photo by sturman

Sheremetjevo aiport has been connected by rail to the center of the city today, the last of three major airports; here is the first train

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[anm]

June 2008
from photofile http://photofile.ru/users/sinterson/115121301/

http://photofile.ru/photo/sinterson/115121301/118558019.jpg

by ivan.ru www.ivan.ru

http://www.ivan.ru/uploads/2008/06/moscow-2.jpg

http://www.ivan.ru/uploads/2008/06/mos-novodevichy-01.jpg

June 14 by Evrasia

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[KVentz]

[/I]the metro? are you kidding me? NO ONE who has any self-respect (i'm told) takes the metro these days
So, we have 10 million people not having self-respect every day: they take metro. :)

[galaxtico]

Moscow really is a beautiful city, the only thing really sucks: The climate ;)

[anm]

Moscow really is a beautiful city, the only thing really sucks: The climate ;)

I would not risk calling Moscow an objectively and uniformly beautiful city - it has many faces, including drab commieblocks and industrial areas, but certainly many beautiful parts too.

Regarding climate - it is four seasons. If you hate four seasons - it sucks, otherwise it is no worse than most other places with four seasons.

[Denscity]

Nice!! I didn't know Moscow was gettin' into the supertalls!

[anm]

Domodedovo aiport expansion, photo by alexandr-M

June 20 2008

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[anm]

http://www.midland.su/content/img/pic_left/2007/9/img/olymp_nn1.jpg

http://www.midland-development.ru/content/img/pic_left/2008/4/img/02_DH.jpg

http://www.midland.su/content/img/pic_left/2007/9/img/olymp_nn2.jpg

http://www.midland.su/content/img/pic_left/2007/9/img/olymp_nn3.jpg

http://www.midland-development.ru/content/img/pic_left/2008/4/img/06_DH.jpg

http://www.midland-development.ru/content/img/pic_left/2008/4/img/05_DH.jpg

http://www.midland-development.ru/content/img/pic_left/2008/4/img/08_DH.jpg

includes underground parking and a theatre

total area 61 500 sq m
15 floors

Floor plans (http://www.midland.su/content/img/files/2007/10/img/1192613689.pdf)

http://www.midland-development.ru/wmc/ru/projects/russia/realty_for_office_and_trade/Diamond_Hall/

http://www.midland-development.ru/content/img/photo/2008/5/img/IMG_0806_800.jpg

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Source: http://www.midland-development.ru/wmc/ru/presscenter/ru_photo/photo_objects/DiamondHall/

June 26, 2008

http://www.pluton-pp.ru/new-building/zavershena-zalivka-fyndamentnoj-plity-diamond-hall.html

[anm]

rendres from http://www.vertical2006.ru

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http://www.vertical2006.ru/images/photoalbum/vert/hall2.jpg

construction thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=84557&page=23) on SSC

photo by Worg April 2008

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photo by jst May 2008 (construction on the horizon)

http://photos.streamphoto.ru/7/2/3/4e1a5f5dda316d176cdbbc7ed119b327.jpg
photo by rapurimanka from LiveJournal (http://community.livejournal.com/moya_moskva/991013.html)

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photo by igor

June 25 2008

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[Grumpy]

new proposal by Zaha Hadid:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1614ZahaDesignsAnotherMoscowTower_pic1.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1614ZahaDesignsAnotherMoscowTower_pic3.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1614ZahaDesignsAnotherMoscowTower_pic2.jpg

[anm]

The name of this project is "Yuri Dolgorukij".
The status is - approved proposal.
There are two towers - 200 and 210 m, the taller one is thinner and is closer to the IBC.

Older proposal - the thinner tower is shorter:

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2485/zahid3so1.jpg

Current proposal:

http://www.archiportale.com/immagini/FileProgetto/2566_7.jpg?229,6564

http://www.archiportale.com/progetti/schedaprogetto.asp?origine=&IdProg=2566

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/889_1_Zaha%20Hadid%20Moscow%20Expo%203.jpg

[DS8®]

new proposal by Zaha Hadid:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1614ZahaDesignsAnotherMoscowTower_pic3.jpg


one of the best designs i have ever seen. :tup:
stunning! :worship:

[anm]

Concept of reconstruction of Zarjadje - the city district near Kremlin where hotel Rossija recently has been demolished, by Foster and Partners.

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the site as of June 2008

photo by alex_divinorum from the spire of Kotelnicheskaja Embarkment

http://ljplus.ru/img4/a/l/alex_divinorum/_24.JPG

http://ljplus.ru/img4/a/l/alex_divinorum/8.JPG

The construction is in limbo as investors are arguing in court.

[anm]

update of Continental, ~180 m, a render at the bottom of page 1 of this thread; that render is not exactly what they are biulding...

here is another one, also not correct

http://i037.radikal.ru/0807/d7/7d50246c5b34.jpg

hoppe at least the construction workers know what they are buliding :)

by Aleksey July 12 2008

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/P1010547.jpg

[anm]

http://www.mirax.ru/img/headers/721_lg.gif

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/moscow.html

Moscow will have its Rotating Skyscraper
to become the new icon of the Russian capital.

According to the Chairman of the MIRAX GROUP Sergey Polonsky, “the brightest feature of the building will be rotation of most floors around the central core, irrespective of the movement of other floors. Thus, floors will not be identical, which will allow the building to change the form constantly. Another characteristic feature of the building will be the system of connection of pipelines: all engineering systems of the central core will be connected to the rotating parts of floors, which will allow to use water, electricity, heating and the sewerage in the apartments in a habitual mode. The method of construction will be also unique: the central core will be poured in-place, and the floors will be made section by section at a factory and fastened to the core when assembled, with all MEP systems and, probably, even furniture”. "After initial estimates, this method will allow us to reduce the time of construction minimum to 30 %, and besides, to essentially lower the site pollution during construction", - adds the Russian project manager.

This tower will have 70 stories, 400 Mt high. (1312 ft).
The developer is the international Moscow based, MIRAX GROUP Company headed by Mr. Sergei Polonsky.
The volume of investments into the tower construction is going to exceed $400 million.
The total area of the tower will be almost 110,000SM (1184000SF) with offices and retail premises as well as apartments and penthouses.
The project, to be realized in the new area of Moscow City within the limits of the third transport ring, is now in the stage of advanced design and coordination.
The beginning of construction is planned for the end of the year, and the commissioning of the tower into operation will be for 2010.


http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/moscow.html


Main features of the Rotating skyscraper

The project will offer apartments with:

• Astonishing view: the tenants of the “villas” can rotate their Villas according to the sun from sunrise to sunset, just by a voice-activated system;

• State-of-the-art design details;

• Very high quality finishing;

• The most sophisticated electronic devices;

• Completely custom-made luxury apartments

• Complete guaranteed maintenance service;

• The most advanced safety systems;

• Pools and sauna at the apartments and penthouses

Click here for Rotating Tower Moscow Movie (http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/Moscow-Video/moscow.html)

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2607493619_629aa9633b_b.jpg

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/IMG/Moscow_Project/Moscow.jpg

approximate location:

Photo by Axort

http://foto.rambler.ru/public/hamsterw/8/panorama2ryl0/panorama2ryl0-webbig.jpg

[anm]

Mirax Park, photo by Worg, Sept 18 2008

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3002/gorinaki.17/0_19683_7acd9ce1_orig

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3103/gorinaki.17/0_19681_ec65e62_orig

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3001/gorinaki.17/0_1966e_da4da34f_orig

Московская медицинская академия им. Сечинова, фармакологический факультет.
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[anm]

photo by Ysh Oct 2 2008

http://s45.radikal.ru/i110/0810/f0/416eb0079def.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

http://s44.radikal.ru/i103/0810/38/2306dc5edd4e.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

То же самое крупно, увеличение по клику:
http://s41.radikal.ru/i093/0810/41/b83224bf7052t.jpg (http://radikal.ru/F/s41.radikal.ru/i093/0810/41/b83224bf7052.jpg.html)

http://s42.radikal.ru/i097/0810/b5/71dc107f9bff.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

http://s42.radikal.ru/i096/0810/12/6c772e36c063.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

http://s56.radikal.ru/i151/0810/5b/26b0f196baf8.jpg

taken from Hotel Leningradskaja/Hilton

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more here (very gloomy weather :( ):

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=720404

[Australiasian]

simply amazing

[bvpcvm]

that zaha hadid project is fantastic. definitely the best project i've seen proposed for moscow.

on friday, the moscow times had an article that stated that the developer of zarad'ye (see post #65 - redevelopment of the hotel rossiya site) had lost the contract, apparently for political reasons. the article also said that the same developer had also lost the contract to build crystal city/khrystal'niy gorod and - that the crystal city project was dead, though it didn't explain what happened.

[anm]

that zaha hadid project is fantastic. definitely the best project i've seen proposed for moscow.

on friday, the moscow times had an article that stated that the developer of zarad'ye (see post #65 - redevelopment of the hotel rossiya site) had lost the contract, apparently for political reasons. the article also said that the same developer had also lost the contract to build crystal city/khrystal'niy gorod and - that the crystal city project was dead, though it didn't explain what happened.
That Crystal Island has never moved beyond "approved" stage, there was no investor. It is even harder to imagine they will find one now.

[breidablik]

I watched all the amazing projects but I am more interested in the mass of the buildingworks which is done in the suburbs I guess.
I am interrested what the designtoughts are behind the highrise apartmentbuildings which are composed in microrayons in the suburbs. They are so standarised en huge.

And I wonder is the argument that you then can get cheap social housing? Because here in Holland just because of this argument we often tend to build low rise rowhouses as they are cheaper then highrise.

I compared some dutch and russian neighbourhoods and found out that moscow neighbourhoods dont take less space because of the highrise as there is much space in and around the microrayons.
Can some one tell me more about this subject or tell me where its reported?

[Indescribable]

Some pretty unique projects.

[5Gmuscovite]

I watched all the amazing projects but I am more interested in the mass of the buildingworks which is done in the suburbs I guess.
I am interrested what the designtoughts are behind the highrise apartmentbuildings which are composed in microrayons in the suburbs. They are so standarised en huge.

And I wonder is the argument that you then can get cheap social housing? Because here in Holland just because of this argument we often tend to build low rise rowhouses as they are cheaper then highrise.

I compared some dutch and russian neighbourhoods and found out that moscow neighbourhoods dont take less space because of the highrise as there is much space in and around the microrayons.
Can some one tell me more about this subject or tell me where its reported?

You see many green zones in Moscow - but it is impossible to built in them. It is parks and forests. Cheep apartments ( now about 4000$US for 1 sq.m) can be only in 17-30 story new buildings. Now Moscow is about 1000 sq.km and more than 10 millions population. We have some townships and villas in Moscow, but it is much more expensive.

[Ludekk]

There is alot going on over there , thanks for the updates

[Brandon716]

Whats going on in Moscow is truly amazing, would love to visit today if I could. :)

I'd seriously like to plan a vacation in the not-so-distant future... Yet I know nothing about how to get around and know zero Russian or anyone who would go with me.