“City of Capitals” is a complex of two high-rise towers: “Moscow” (73 floors) and “St. Petersburg” (65 floors) with an 18-story connecting part on the 9th section of the Moscow-City district. Construction began in 2003, but was soon frozen after changes to the design of the complex. In 2005, resumed. Construction was completed at the end of 2009. The Moscow Tower was the tallest building in the Commonwealth of Independent States until December 1, 2011, when monolithic work on the skyscraper Mercury City Tower was completed .
| Section 9 of the Moscow International Business Center "Moscow City" Complex "City of Capitals" | |
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| Includes | Tower "Moscow", the tower "St. Petersburg" and stylobate part |
| Status | Built |
| Construction | 2005-2009 |
| Using | Apartments, shops (Moscow and St. Petersburg) Offices (stylobate part) |
| Height | |
|---|---|
| Roof | 301.6 m (Moscow) 256.9 m (St. Petersburg) 76 m (stylobate part) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Number of floors | 73 (Moscow) 65 (St. Petersburg) 18 (stylobate part) |
| Area | 288 680 m² |
| Project | |
| Architect | NBBJ |
| Owner | Capital group |
| Developer | Capital group |
| Information and photos on Emporis | |
| SkyscraperCity Theme | |
The “City of Capitals” with a total area of 288.7 thousand m² includes residential apartments (101 thousand m²) in two towers “Moscow” and “St. Petersburg”, and a business center, which is located in two blocks at the base of the towers ( "North Tower") and in the block of the office complex ("South Tower") from 4 to 17 floors.
Content
- 1 Owners
- 2 Buyers and tenants
- 3 Design Features
- 4 Ratings
- 5 Gallery
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Owners
The global financial crisis has led to a lack of financial and credit resources both for the main owner and developer of the project ( Capital Group ) and potential buyers and tenants of new premises.
On March 27, 2009 Sberbank of Russia OJSC , Sberbank Capital LLC and Capital Group announced the signing of restructuring agreements for a Capital Group loan totaling more than $ 400 million. In addition, an agreement was signed on additional investment by the Sberbank of the construction of the IFC City of Capitals. The volume of investments amounted to about 180 million dollars, co-investment - 90 million dollars, an additional credit line - 90 million dollars. As a result, Sberbank received the rights to a part of residential apartments within the IFC “City of Capitals”, and the Capital Group remained the managing company of the complex [1] .
Buyers and Tenants
The Russian subsidiary of the Turkish Garanti Bank - “Guarantee Bank - Moscow” - has acquired more than 2 thousand m² of office space in the City of Capitals multifunctional complex (IFC). The bank was considering moving to Moscow City in 2010 [2] .
Design Features
The office area of the "City of Capitals" has several entrances, including from the promenade, from the underground parking and from shopping galleries.
The design of the apartments and offices of the complex involves panoramic glazing, which allows the best use of natural sunlight.
The underground parking of the “City of Capital” was designed with the calculation of 1 parking space per 60 m² of office space [3] .
Energy supply of the building is carried out by Mosenergo according to the 1st category. The building has transformer substations of 20 / 0.4 kV.
Ratings
At the end of 2010, the Moscow Tower was among the ten best skyscrapers in the world in the ranking compiled by Emporis Standards as part of the Emporis Skyscraper Award and based on expert ratings awarded for aesthetic appearance and compatibility with the urban environment [4] .
In 2012, the complex took first place among European skyscrapers in the popularity tournament at the SkyscraperCity forum [5] , leaving the Mary-Ex Skyscraper in London in second place [6] . In the world tournament, the “Cities of Capitals” complex did not reach the final round, losing 8% of the votes in the preliminary round to the Empire State Building in New York [7] .
Gallery
Notes
- ↑ Capital Group will remain the managing company of the project “City of Capitals” (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Banks sat down in the “City of Capitals”
- ↑ Complex City of Capitals Moscow City (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment October 5, 2012. Archived March 29, 2013.
- ↑ One tower from Moscow City was included in the top ten “most aesthetic” skyscrapers in the world . NEWSru.com (July 29, 2011). Date of treatment August 9, 2017.
- ↑ Eurocup . SkyscraperCity Date of treatment August 9, 2017.
- ↑ eurocup • finale . SkyscraperCity Date of treatment August 9, 2017.
- ↑ Supertalls World Cup . SkyscraperCity Date of treatment August 9, 2017.
Links
- The page "City of Capitals" on the site of Moscow International Business Center "Moscow City"
- city-capitals.ru - official site City of capitals
- Photos from the construction site of the complex (September 25, 2006)
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