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photoLith · #**681** Posted **Nov 6, 2015, 2:39 PM**

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

mousquet · #**682** Posted **Nov 6, 2015, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

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 · #**683** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 6:01 PM**

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

Nice close up skyline shot

toxteth o'grady · #**684** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 1:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

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.

Crawford · #**685** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 4:13 PM**

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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 · #**686** Posted **Nov 28, 2015, 9:12 AM**

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 · #**687** Posted **Nov 28, 2015, 9:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by spc fan

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 · #**688** Posted **Nov 29, 2015, 2:12 AM**

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

spc fan · #**689** Posted **Nov 29, 2015, 2:15 AM**

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

spc fan · #**690** Posted **Nov 29, 2015, 4:23 AM**

Hey, would the spire resume construction ten years later?

Spocket · #**691** Posted **Dec 1, 2015, 8:39 PM**

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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 · #**692** Posted **Dec 3, 2015, 12:04 PM**

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

spc fan · #**693** Posted **Dec 3, 2015, 12:05 PM**

still many people.mr FT contains most of them.

spc fan · #**694** Posted **Dec 3, 2015, 12:07 PM**

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

spc fan · #**695** Posted **Dec 12, 2015, 4:38 AM**

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

spc fan · #**696** Posted **Jan 10, 2016, 6:42 AM**

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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 · #**697** Posted **Jan 10, 2016, 12:53 PM**

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

spc fan · #**698** Posted **Jan 20, 2016, 10:13 AM**

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- 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 · #**699** Posted **Jan 20, 2016, 1:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kamuix

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

Nice close up skyline shot

Buck-Rogerseque skyline. I kinda like it.

tateyb · #**700** Posted **Feb 12, 2016, 7:57 PM**

Skyline Photos Show Europe's Tallest Building Nearly Finished

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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.

Moscow-City, image by Bajtai Tamás via Flickr