MOSCOW | Federation Tower | 373 M - Pinnacle | 360 M - 93 FLOORS | 242 M - 55 FLOORS

[Gamma-Hamster]

Since Federation Tower will not be cut, can somebody update the database?

[Spocket]

What do you mean?!
What are you going to do
to Federation Tower? :(

Finish it as planned. This is good news.

[malec]

Updates

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Federaion_Tower_in_Moscow-City_28-03-2010.jpg

[QuarterMileSidewalk]

Excellent news!

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Since Federation Tower will not be cut, can somebody update the database?

Yes, someone should do this quickly. But the current status is on-hold after CTBUH´s criterias (source see correction thread). The completion date is 2016. :cool:

[Gamma-Hamster]

http://www.interfax.co.uk/russia-cis-business-and-financial-news-bulletins-in-english/sberbank-to-lend-370-mln-to-mirax-group-to-finish-federation-tower/

Sberbank to lend $370 mln to Mirax Group to finish Federation Tower
MOSCOW. Feb 9 (IFAX Russia and CIS Business and Financial News Wire) – Sberbank Russia (RTS: SBER) will lend $370 million to property developer Mirax Group

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=457285&page=241

By mr. MyXiN:

Sberbank logo

http://www.myxin.ru/fotos/moscow_city/02.11.11/federation11-2.jpg

[colemonkee]

That's great news! I've always been a little bummed that this one has been stalled for so long. And great to see that it will rise to it's originally designed height.

[Aleks]

will they also complete the spire? that was one of the biggest focal points of the tower! and it actually looked nice with the design.

[Gamma-Hamster]

http://www.propertyxpress.com/news/Mirax_Group_to_Resume_Construction_of_Federation_Tower-017042

March 03, 2011, 11:46, (Property Xpress) - Construction work on the Federation Tower complex in Moscow-City will be restarted in May 2011

[dis]

nice building!

[betawest]

nice building!

Yes! It is best ever in europe! :)

[Spocket]

Yes! It is best ever in europe! :)
Maybe so but since it's incomplete I'm not sure it's worthy of such praise just yet .
I thought construction was to resume in May . Apparently the developer's statement was premature .

[Juni]

Restart

http://www.myxin.ru/fotos/moscow_city/06.16.11/imbc-7.jpg

http://i23.fastpic.ru/big/2011/0621/12/a49fe2ade39c8910d215a89d62c2be12.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002039498800

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http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5906/mrdtv2010.1a/0_6847b_5fde66b1_XXL.jpg
РВСН

[Juni]

10.11.11
http://i.imgur.com/LQUj8.jpg
mr. MyXiN -_-

4 nov 2011
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4523/28804908.97/0_69ca2_e50a4987_XL.jpg

27/10/2011
http://i.imgur.com/s65JF.jpg
mr. MyXiN -_-

20.10.2011
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5310/77912698.9/0_6d314_75fcf3b3_XL
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4416/77912698.9/0_6d319_1cc7803b_XL
ivan.potapoff

October 10th, 2011
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5411/27376711.4d/0_4cf3c_acb64f7d_XXL
Izus67

26.08.2011
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4518/30056330.b/0_79e3d_4de63648_XXXL.jpg
FLUOR

23.08.11
http://i.imgur.com/R5ohz.jpg
mr. MyXiN -_-

September 18th, 2011
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5014/30056330.14/0_7bd4a_803d301c_XXXL.jpg
FLUOR

http://savepic.org/2326543.jpg

[Hudson11]

well... fuck

http://rt.com/news/moscow-tower-catches-fire-068/

http://rt.com/files/news/moscow-tower-catches-fire-068/ria-novosti-alexey-filippov-232.jpg
http://rt.com/files/news/moscow-tower-catches-fire-068/ria-novosti-iliya-pitalev-365.jpg
http://rt.com/files/news/moscow-tower-catches-fire-068/ria-novosti-alexey-filippov-491.jpg

[James Bond Agent 007]

Oops. Hate it when that happens.

[drumz0rz]

found on Reddit:
http://i.imgur.com/0ldLt.jpg

[Arawooho]

^^
Well that's just awkward. :omg::dead:

[sparky212]

Lighthouse effect wow

[Dense_Electric]

Don't you hate it when your city's under construction-tallest building spontaneously combusts? That's just my pet peeve.

Though I suppose it's better than a crowed, complete office building.

[Roadcruiser1]

It has happened before. The North Tower of the old World Trade Center caught fire during construction and the Shanghai World Financial Center caught fire during construction. Everything will be put out and repaired.

[animatedmartian]

Very pretty complex at night despite the fire and whatever damage it caused.

Via Yahoo news. http://news.yahoo.com/under-construction-moscow-tower-ablaze-193240175.html

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/yAQfyrgvhn9.6mQjTyUWqA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0zOTY7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/02/AP120402112995-jpg_230359.jpg

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8kRLxeqiP1GZS9i79SrCww--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD05NDY7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/02/AP12040218019-jpg_195503.jpg

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[Ghost]

The news here in Finland said the fire only damaged two top floors so I don't think this will be a major problem.

[njcco]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-03/owner-of-fire-stricken-moscow-tower-investigates-damage-caused.html

By Henry Meyer and Stepan Kravchenko - Apr 3, 2012 10:58 AM ET

The owner of the unfinished Federation Tower skyscraper in Moscow said it’s investigating damage caused by a fire to see if it will delay construction.

“We’ve taken a time out to see if this affects our construction schedule,” Yulia Brazhentseva, a spokeswoman for Potok8, said by phone today.

Two fire-fighting helicopters were deployed to help extinguish yesterday’s fire on the tower’s 66th and 67th floors. The blaze broke out about 8 p.m. in Moscow after wind blew a protective banner onto a light projector, the developer said.

The tower, which was originally planned to be Europe’s tallest, was built with concrete that can withstand a fire for as long as four hours, Potok8 said in an e-mailed statement. “The building frame itself wasn’t damaged by the fire,” it said. The blaze was put out four hours after it started, at about midnight, the Interfax news agency reported.

There were no injuries from the fire, which affected about 300 square meters (3,200 square feet), according to a statement on the Emergency Ministry’s website.

[drumz0rz]

This is only a mild hiccup in the construction. Nothing was really damaged, so no harm done. Might set construction back by a few weeks though.

[queetz@home]

This is only a mild hiccup in the construction. Nothing was really damaged, so no harm done. Might set construction back by a few weeks though.

Few weeks seem like an eternity for this particular project.

Be nice if its at least topped off. It really annoys me when two (or multi) tower projects like these when the smaller building(s) gets built first. They should have built the taller one first so there are less chances of things like fires, financial crisis, etc. The longer a construction project, the more things simply can go wrong.

Look at WTC2? The best looking amongst the WTC towers and yet its the one that ain't gonna get built (due to lack of tenants) cuz they did it last instead of doing it first (after Freedom). If they did it first, whatever tenants the WTC has now would have gone there instead of the other smaller, lesser towers.

Look at EAP (Calgary). The taller building gets built first, economic uncertainty, but they won the gamble so it gets filled. Whatever spillover goes to the baby brother, which is now getting built as well. But even if they "lost" the gamble, the taller (hence prettier one) gets built.

So for the Federation Tower, if the taller one got built first, even if the smaller one gets delayed due to fires, financial crisis, and so on, it wouldn't hurt so much....

[Ed007Toronto]

Thanks for the photos.

[FTP]

This may not be the most popular thing to say: but those orange flames on top of that building are beautiful!

[Juni]

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6303/28804908.df/0_7b53d_a72ec5ed_XL.jpg
Art-Pushka

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6302/28804908.df/0_7b53b_d6f61f14_XL.jpg
Art-Pushka

[Juni]

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6307/80684117.9/0_830d1_ccbe4bf9_XXL.jpg
theAlone

A series of videos on my technicals filling the West Tower Complex Federation.

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This is the first part of the reports on the vertical transport of the Federation complex. Today, we are going to tell you about the unique system of two cabins in the same elevator shaft. ThyssenKrupp Elevator is the first and only manufacturer of elevator equipment, which has implemented the idea of the simultaneous motion of two cabins, moving independently of each other in the same elevator shaft. In one shaft, the two cabins are located one above the other and use the same rails and doors. The cabs can independently move up to the floors, located one above another. Each elevator has its own drive with a drive pulley, and its own counterweight.

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In the Federation Tower West, there are two unique ThyssenKrupp lifts with transparent floors. This feature allows passengers to observe the elevator shaft of the tallest-to-be skyscraper in Europe as well as the movement of the second elevator cabin in the shaft.

P.S. Sorry for my english

[Juni]

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6305/28804908.e1/0_7bb16_f99ce70_XL.jpg
Art-Pushka

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6306/28804908.e1/0_7bb19_7571c3f8_XL.jpg
Art-Pushka

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6311/28804908.e1/0_7bb18_a4bf96d3_XL.jpg
Art-Pushka

[colemonkee]

So it appears work is resuming after the fire?

[Juni]

some places, but the core is not destroyed, because it is not burned

[Juni]

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[JayCortese]

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[TowerVerre:)]

Nice very nice...... I think moscow city is the best building project in the world right now . I hope they will build more of this nice towers

[bigreach]

Been 3 months since anyone posted here, is it on hold? Or just nobody covering it much?

[ThatOneGuy]

^^ It's on hold

[animatedmartian]

Dated December 7th.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8065/8262744531_1c4984dc18_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvbr11/8262744531/)
Panorama (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvbr11/8262744531/) by Ilya Khuroshvili (http://www.flickr.com/people/nvbr11/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8084/8259967521_2b93daa978_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvbr11/8259967521/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvbr11/8259967521/) by Ilya Khuroshvili (http://www.flickr.com/people/nvbr11/), on Flickr

[Design-mind]

I could not find anything about the tie-up or why this building is on hold. Is it financial? Does anyone know?

[LMich]

The only way to ensure a gold-glass building has a chance of looking good is to not outline it. If you are going to outline the building, I think the only color that saves it is black. One of the only gold-glass buildings I like is the 3000 Town Center in Southfield in suburban Detroit.

Not only am I not a fan of the white outline of this building, but the particular color used and the massing is just silly. It already looks dated.

[ThatOneGuy]

If you're gonna rant on a building, at least do it on the right thread...

[ThatOneGuy]

By: theAlone
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4117/80684117.2a/0_9a203_37ec4ce5_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/631299/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6425/80684117.2a/0_9a204_734956a2_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/631300/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4125/80684117.2a/0_9a205_23348d9f_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/631301/)
By: theAlone
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5641/80684117.2a/0_9a206_e22981e3_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/631302/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5644/80684117.2a/0_9a207_9da99c8b_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/631303/)

[Surrealplaces]

I'm not a big fan either. Hello Moscow....Las Vegas called and they want their tower back....

The only way to ensure a gold-glass building has a chance of looking good is to not outline it. If you are going to outline the building, I think the only color that saves it is black. One of the only gold-glass buildings I like is the 3000 Town Center in Southfield in suburban Detroit.

Not only am I not a fan of the white outline of this building, but the particular color used and the massing is just silly. It already looks dated.

[The North One]

http://i.imgur.com/s65JF.jpg

I want to know what Steve is saying here.

[ThatOneGuy]

I'm not a big fan either. Hello Moscow....Las Vegas called and they want their tower back....

The 80s called, they want their joke back.

[LMich]

The 80s called, they want their joke back.

Who's my favorite, little contrarian? You'ree my favorite, little contrarian. Yes you are! Oh, yes you are!

Honestly, don't you have some other vanity project in some third world banana republic you should be championing, or some nice tower in the United States you should be disparaging? Because, really, that's your own trick.

[ThatOneGuy]

^^ Okay, so I'm not allowed to counter cheezy jokes. Cool. Even if its a joke about a building in the wrong thread.
Ironically, I was replying to a negative comment on a building that pretty much everyone likes, so I was replying to a contrarian, but apparently if it goes against your opinion, I'm the contrarian. Great mod skills there.
No wonder everybody goes to SkyscraperCity instead of here.

[rascacielos]

[QUOTE=The North One;6063190

I want to know what Steve is saying here.[/QUOTE]

The only way to do great work is love what you do.

[Guiltyspark]

This thread is hilarious.

[Surrealplaces]

I bet nobody would have imagined this 30 years ago......A huge picture of Steve Jobs on the side of a gleaming Moscow Skyscraper. Oh how the times have changed.

http://i.imgur.com/s65JF.jpg

I want to know what Steve is saying here.

[Surrealplaces]

You're allowed to counter cheesy jokes, but at least come up with something better than copying the same joke. ;)

^^ Okay, so I'm not allowed to counter cheezy jokes. Cool. Even if its a joke about a building in the wrong thread.
Ironically, I was replying to a negative comment on a building that pretty much everyone likes, so I was replying to a contrarian, but apparently if it goes against your opinion, I'm the contrarian. Great mod skills there.
No wonder everybody goes to SkyscraperCity instead of here.

[WonderlandPark]

Insert "in Soviet Russia...." joke here

ive seen this cluster IRL, its pretty badass and beats the pants off Vegas.

[Surrealplaces]

Insert "in Soviet Russia...." joke here

ive seen this cluster IRL, its pretty badass and beats the pants off Vegas.

Agreed. The cluster does indeed beat the pants off Vegas. Earlier in this thread the discussion had turned to the gold and white tower (below) which does not exactly beat the pants off Vegas, but rather looks like it arrived straight from Vegas.

Dated December 7th.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8065/8262744531_1c4984dc18_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvbr11/8262744531/)
Panorama (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvbr11/8262744531/) by Ilya Khuroshvili (http://www.flickr.com/people/nvbr11/), on Flickr

[fimiak]

Does Federation tower have a tenant or two? I would like to visit Moscow to see this growth...but only in the summer time.

[P2000]

23.7.2014

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6828/50484535.159/0_8737c_4eebe603_orig

[P2000]

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6805/82260854.31a/0_c3c7b_4f0c6517_XXXL.jpg

[P2000]

I have made a +350m U/C diagram (Excluding T/O and >50m).

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1500x768q50/540/7VajVH.png

[Austin55]

^Awesome man! Really good way to keep track of construction.

[Spocket]

Actually, I can't believe how quickly 432 Park Avenue is going up. Seems like just last year I heard about it (obviously I'm misremembering)

[P2000]

Please change the height in this thread to 373m! The spire will be removed...

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6839/80684117.50/0_c82c0_6d4e45b6_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/819904/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6745/80684117.50/0_c82c1_646265c8_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/819905/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6811/80684117.50/0_c82c2_66461b09_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/819906/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6812/80684117.50/0_c82c3_dc0612c4_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/819907/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/10/80684117.50/0_c82c4_d97fb3a6_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/819908/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6811/80684117.50/0_c82c5_75363349_XXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/alone-projects/view/819909/)

[P2000]

Rising!!!
09.09.2014

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4809/56950011.b5/0_bdd66_eb54aa1d_XXXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/d1ego49/view/777574/)

Please change the height in this thread to 373m! The spire will be removed...

[Yackemflaber69]

is anyone else glad the spire is going to be removed

[Pete8680]

is anyone else glad the spire is going to be removed

Is this official? The spire will not be finished or removed?

[P2000]

CTBUH...

http://skyscrapercenter.com/moscow/federation-towers--vostok-tower/118

[P2000]

The tower is rising very fast! :notacrook:

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6847/82260854.347/0_c72f0_6bb60c7f_XXXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/night-city-dream/view/815856/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5106/82260854.347/0_c72f6_8cf863a6_XXXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/night-city-dream/view/815862/)

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3306/82260854.347/0_c7308_64359513_XXXL.jpg (http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/night-city-dream/view/815880/)

[chris08876]

Tower is in the back.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8586/16173137913_857d5f6920_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/qDayrp)
Московский Нижний Манхэттен "Москва Сити" - Башня на Набережной, Город Столиц, Империя, Федерация, Эволюция. Moscow Lower Manhattan called "Moscow City" - Naberezhnaya tower, City of Capitals, Imperial tower, Federation tower, Evolution tower #moscow #mos (https://flic.kr/p/qDayrp) by irudnenko (https://www.flickr.com/people/106505546@N05/), on Flickr

[BrandonJXN]

How long has this been under construction? It's seems like it's taking ages. I know this building caught on fire and was delayed because of monetary isues but what exactly happened?

[Guiltyspark]

This horrible cluster of towers shows what happens when every tower is designed as a "look at me!" building.

[mousquet]

^ You're being excessively harsh, Guilty. The 3 towers on the left of the picture above are cool, especially the twins.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7600/17110757792_484a5510f9_b.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dopekine/17110757792/

Ok? It does look better than fair on that shot at dusk. I only wonder about the feet of the buildings. Are they open enough to strollers? Any 'Apple Store' or random easy pop shit there? That's my only concern about it.

[Guiltyspark]

^ You're being excessively harsh, Guilty. The 3 towers on the left of the picture above are cool, especially the twins.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7600/17110757792_484a5510f9_b.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dopekine/17110757792/

Ok? It does look better than fair on that shot at dusk. I only wonder about the feet of the buildings. Are they open enough to strollers? Any 'Apple Store' or random easy pop shit there? That's my only concern about it.

It does look better in that picture you posted and I like the twins. Actually, a lot of buildings on their own are not bad, it is just that the whole area together in a garbled mess.

[Dac150]

The cluster is actually neat, although there seems to be little to no street life . . . granted the district still seems heavily u/c.

[chris08876]

This is almost finished. Was checking the CTBUH. This being the Vostok Tower.

May 14th:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8839/17633010621_7ca83425b6_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/sSaMJv)
..third Rome ... he is) (https://flic.kr/p/sSaMJv) by Vladimir Voronov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/vladimirvoronov/), on Flickr

[Highrise_Mike]

These towers are awesome, it is much better than a bunch of boring boxes in my opinion. You can never have too many good looking towers.

[Pete8680]

Looks like some of the lower floors are occupied during construction.

[whiteford]

The cluster is actually neat, although there seems to be little to no street life . . . granted the district still seems heavily u/c.

do you really, honestly expect there to be streetlife where there is only a office park? comom you guys who always say this, just think about it. its not NY or Chicago with a established population to go along with it already in place. who designs a office park to have a streetlife anyhow? it doesn't even make sense to try.:shrug:

[chris08876]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5661/20832510883_c20e5dcfdb_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xJU4G8)
_RJS5532 (https://flic.kr/p/xJU4G8) by Richard Silver (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/), on Flickr

[colemonkee]

Such a long time coming for this one. Glad to see it finally take shape. Though it would have been cool with the spire...

[spc fan]

Federation tower updates are: no spire, vostok tower no hole on the top and roof height from 411m to 374 m,and lastly: zapad tower NO change.

[spc fan]

I hope evrybody gets it, just a reminder

[photoLith]

Pretty sexy tower. Looks like Moscow is building its own La Defense.

[mousquet]

Pretty sexy tower. Looks like Moscow is building its own La Defense.
Lol, I'll take this as a great compliment. I like Russia... And I like you and your camera too.

For real, Russian friends do like la Déf', cause it's large enough already. It's been developed for 50 or so years. That's quite some significant time already to me. Their towers in their Moscow International district are fewer than ours, but they're much taller than we are yet.

It looks kinda odd in their skyline for now, but then they'll get more and more. And more. And even more...

[Kamuix]

Wow this thing is almost finished and here we have a skyline shot from tEg50 on flickr:

Nice close up skyline shot

http://i1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah123/Andrew_Milligan/23102149635_0052a0839f_k_zpsjdzeym8c.jpg

[toxteth o'grady]

Pretty sexy tower. Looks like Moscow is building its own La Defense.

Maybe more like Allen Center, as it is probably hiding the Russian Enrons.:notacrook:

[Crawford]

It looks kinda odd in their skyline for now, but then they'll get more and more. And more. And even more...

I doubt it. Russian economy is tanking and this complex is mostly empty space, planned long before the current economic crisis and energy slump.

But it's a very sexy looking complex.

[spc fan]

when this mammoth construction is completed, it will house about 300,000 people and 11 buildings,the federation tower, the OKO tower, the mecury city tower, the eurasia tower, the capital city complex,the embankment tower, the eveloution tower,the imperia tower, the renaissance moscow towers, the grand city moscow, and the IQ quarter. Although in a international business center full of tall skyscrapers the federation towers really stand out. Nothing is taller than it.

[hruski]

when this mammoth construction is completed, it will house about 30 million people and 11 buildings,the federation tower, the OKO tower, the mecury city tower, the eurasia tower, the capital city complex,the embankment tower, the eveloution tower,the imperia tower, the renaissance moscow towers, the grand city moscow, and the IQ quarter. Although in a international business center full of tall skyscrapers the federation towers really stand out. Nothing is taller than it.

30 million people? i think that's overbuilding a bit, considering it's 2x Moscow's population.

[spc fan]

That IS quite overbuilding indeed,hruski. the first IBC in Europe.

[spc fan]

And not just residents. Including people who work there and tourists who stay in the MIBC s hotels.

[spc fan]

Hey, would the spire resume construction ten years later?

[Spocket]

when this mammoth construction is completed, it will house about 30 million people

Not sure if you're joking or if this was simply an innocent error on your part but it's quite impossible that this will house 30 million people. I think you need to downgrade your estimate by several orders of magnitude.

[spc fan]

OK,spocket,i think i got it wrong;should be 300,000 people.

[spc fan]

still many people.mr FT contains most of them.

[spc fan]

Sorry ,hruski. I got craziness in my head. But is FT iregular looking? I think it rather looks like a sailboat.

[spc fan]

The Federation Tower has been topped out by December of this year. Cladding installed, should be opened next New Year.

[spc fan]

Not sure if you're joking or if this was simply an innocent error on your part but it's quite impossible that this will house 30 million people. I was just making an innocent error.

[BrandedCow]

- Just out of curiosity... how many of these buildings are sitting empty with the slow down of the Russain economy?

[spc fan]

- Just out of curiosity... how many of these buildings are sitting empty with the slow down of the Russain economy?

Mabye a few. I don't think anybody is very sure about this question but that's that, more or less, I think. And I do not think that the FT would be sitting along the river without anything in it. Do you want to check it yourself, or should I?

[MolsonExport]

Wow this thing is almost finished and here we have a skyline shot from tEg50 on flickr:

Nice close up skyline shot

http://i1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah123/Andrew_Milligan/23102149635_0052a0839f_k_zpsjdzeym8c.jpg

Buck-Rogerseque skyline. I kinda like it.

[tateyb]

Skyline Photos Show Europe's Tallest Building Nearly Finished (http://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/02/skyline-photos-show-europes-tallest-building-nearly-finished)

A pair of skyscrapers 95 and 63 floors tall rise from a shared nine-storey podium. The 374- and 243-metre towers, developed by Potok, contain residential and office uses. The shorter building, Tower West, finished in 2008. The taller of the two, Tower East, faced numerous delays that plagued construction. All work on the tower was halted in 2008 when the global economic recession hit Russia. The building stalled at a height of 170 metres until 2011, when construction finally resumed.

Workers weren't out of the woods yet though. A blaze in 2012 broke out on the 67th floor, subsequently requiring major repairs. But with the tower now topped out and cladding enveloping the vast majority of the structure, it looks like most of these troubles can be forgotten. Recent photos from Flickr users Bajtai Tamás and René Conny Heinen show the district's immense size, with the Federation Towers peaking in the centre.

http://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/default/files/images/articles/2016/02/19727/19727-66821.jpg
Moscow-City, image by Bajtai Tamás via Flickr