The highest skyscrapers of Russia
The first skyscraper is considered to be the House Insurance building, built in 1885 in Chicago office with a height of 42 meters. Today, much higher buildings are already attributed to skyscrapers - from 130 meters. In Russia, the story begins in 1913, with the construction of a seven-story building, and now the country ranks 15th in the global ranking with 38 completed skyscrapers.
→ The highest skyscrapers of the world.
In 1913, at the corner of Kalashny lane in Moscow, a merchant A. I. Titov completed a seven-story apartment building. Under the guidance of architect Nikolai Dmitrievich Strukov, the house was built in a hurry, but in March 1913 one of the walls collapsed and filled the alley with bricks, logs and iron fragments in the height of two floors. This was the third collapsed structure of Strukov. The house was reduced to five floors, but by 1923-1925 the sixth and seventh were again built, and the building itself went to Mosselprom.
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In 1925, a flour warehouse and the administration of Moscow grocery stores and beer shops were placed on the first floor of the building, above were the directorate, the accounting department, the communist cell and the local committee. The workers of the Babayevsky factory lived in the residential part of the building.
Here we are talking only about seven floors - this house is not so high. And in the 1950s, the construction of high-rise buildings began with much more zeal.
In 1930, the Stalinist architecture, or Stalans, took the stage, replacing rationalism and constructivism. Seven skyscrapers in Moscow are called "seven sisters" or "seven Stalin skyscrapers". Initially, the USSR Council of Ministers in 1947 decided to build eight tall buildings, of which the highest was supposed to be the Palace of Soviets on the site of the blown-up Temple of Christ the Savior. As a result, this particular skyscraper was not built.
The first Stalin skyscraper, which began to build, was a residential building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment . This house alone was to become a “city within a city.” In order to have enough space for this one building, four lanes were demolished in Moscow.
It all started with the “Old” building, a 9-storey residential building overlooking the Moscow River, completed in 1940 - before the decision of the Council of Ministers to build high-rises. The central part of the building was completed by 1952. The height of the building is 176 meters, and the number of floors, including technical ones, is 32.
Prisoners who, according to data from various sources, left the inscriptions “built by cons” throughout the house, were attracted to the construction of the building.
Photos of these inscriptions I could not find.
In the bend of the Moskva River in 1953, they began to build the “Hotel building in Dorogomilovo”, which was given the name “Ukraine” under Khrushchev. In 1957, when the building was completed, Kutuzov Avenue was opened - the hotel stands at the very beginning. At the time of opening on May 25, 1957, the hotel was recognized as the largest in Europe.
The height of the building is 206 meters, including a 73-meter spire. In the central volume of the building - 34 floors. Now the hotel has 497 rooms ranging from 25 to 370 square meters.
The highest man-made monument to Joseph Stalin was the main building of Lomonosov Moscow State University . The construction was attended by prisoners, for whom on the 22nd floor they organized a camp for 700 people.
The height of the central building of this high-rise is 183.2 meters, not counting the spire. With a spire - 240 meters. The building was built from 1949 to 1953. Number of floors - 36, and elevators - 68 pieces (correct who studied there). The university itself in this building on the Sparrow Hills opened on May 7, 1955.
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina worked on the design of the facades, for which we owe the monument “Worker and Collective Farm Girl” and the monument to Pyotr Tchaikovsky on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street.
Foundations and framework developed N.V. Nikitin, the creator of the Ostankino television tower. One of the problems with the construction was weak ground. The designer used a box-like foundation, as well as flexible columns on the ground floor, metal cross-section columns, and many other solutions that made it possible to build the tallest building for the next 37 years in Europe.
On Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in Moscow, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is located in a building with a height of 172 meters. In addition to the style of the building, the USSR resembles a coat of arms of 144 square meters at an altitude of 114 meters. The number of floors in the building is 27. At the time of construction in 1953 there were 28 elevators in the building, of which 18 are high-speed.
The building was designed by architects V. G. Gelfreikh , who created the design of the building of the Russian State Library, and M. A. Minkus .
Sculptor GI worked on the stucco work on the building portal . Motovilov , whose service record includes the design of Moscow Metro stations Electrozavodskaya, Novokuznetskaya, Smolenskaya, Prospekt Mira, Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya and Komsomolskaya.
1952 Alexander Ivanovich Baransky (1890-1965) “Moscow. View of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the embankment ”.
A.N. Dushkin , the architect of the Central Children's World, and B.S. Mezentsev , who designed the railway stations in Smolensk, Kharkov, Vitebsk, Borodino and Yartsev, worked after the Great Patriotic War, above the high-rise building on the Red Gate Square.
The building is located at the highest point of the Garden Ring. The height of the skyscraper is 138 meters, this is 24 floors in the central building. The side hulls have floors from 11 to 15.
Under one of the buildings is located the lobby of the metro station Krasnye Vorota. But the most interesting thing is that the station and the building were built simultaneously. For a while the house had to stand on the edge of the pit, and after the precipitation of the soil, it would tilt. The problem was solved by building the building initially with a slope, and the ground froze. When the ground melted, the building sagged and fell vertically. This task was so difficult to calculate that they never used the method anywhere else.
In 1955, aviation industry workers and test pilots received apartments in a residential building with 450 apartments built on Kudrinskaya Square. This building, with a central volume of 24 residential floors and side buildings with 18 residential floors, has a height of 156 meters with a spire.
This is how the House of Aviators looks from the star on the steeple.
In 1949-1954, the Leningradskaya Hotel was built on Kalanchevskaya Street, a 17-storey building with a height of just 136 meters — not much compared to the other high-rises.
The building was developed by A. B. Boretsky , who later designed the Hotel Moscow, and L. M. Polyakov , architect of the USSR Embassies in Ethiopia and Albania.
Architect Polyakov was criticized for the interior of the hotel. Too chic seemed interior. The newspaper Pravda wrote in 1955: “Major excesses were allowed in the design and construction of high-rise buildings. For example, the construction of the Leningradskaya Hotel for three hundred and fifty-four rooms on Kalanchevskaya Square in Moscow (architects Polyakov and Boretsky) spent as much money as would have been needed to build an economically designed hotel for a thousand rooms ”( source ).
The newspaper took these theses from a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, where he compares Stalin's skyscrapers and many other buildings, distinguished by the beauty of architecture and decoration, the presence of stucco molding and chandeliers, with churches: So? Silhouette such, comrades. Take with Kuntsevo look it. Do you like the silhouette of the church? I somehow, you know, do not want to argue with your taste. But for housing it is not necessary. After all, God does not live in church, he uses this church for certain purposes. ” And after that Polyakov was deprived of the Stalin Prize. Although the architect of this award was not. Other architects in a hurry simplified the houses that were already built, the massive construction of the "abrasive" houses began - buildings without exterior decoration, ugly five-story boxes.
And below in the photo - Woolworth Building. It strongly resembles the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Architect Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, who was commissioned in 1947 to develop a project for the construction of high-rise buildings, received additional education at New York University and for 11 years of his life in the United States implemented several projects, including skyscrapers. Having accumulated experience and ideas, Oltarzhevsky tried to follow in order to develop them to maximalism, or better - “Bolshevism”. He took neo-gothic and with imperial scale turned it into a Stalinist empire.
In the rating of skyscrapers of Russia, the first 12 positions, except the seventh, are occupied by the Moscow-City towers. For the first time, the construction project of the Moscow International Business Center was mentioned back in 1992. The initiator was a Soviet and Russian architect, Boris Ivanovich Thor , who proposed the project to Yury Luzhkov. The project was being hatched for a long time, active construction began in general only by 2005. Boris Thor, unfortunately, did not have time to see the results of the entire project - he died in 2009.
The height of the main building of the Moscow State University at 240 meters does not seem to be such an impressive result compared to the highest skyscrapers in Russia at the moment. The tower "East" in Moscow City has risen above the city by 373.7 meters, it is 97 floors. "West" is somewhat lower - only 62 floors and the same 240 meters, as in Moscow State University. The foundation for the construction of the Federation Tower complex left 14 thousand cubic meters of concrete, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Towers from the foundation to the upper floor permeate 25 perimeter columns. Stability is added to the building by outrigger floors of high-strength steel structures, located every 25-30 floors.
By the way, there are 67 elevators in the “Tower of the Federation” - almost as many as at MSU.
The second tallest building in the country - MFC "Oko". South and North towers have a height of 354.1 and 341.4 meters, up to 85 floors. Plus 15 levels of underground parking under the building. You can buy two-room apartments here for only 40 with a small million rubles .
The third tallest building in Europe is the Mercury City Tower skyscraper with a height of 338.8 meters. Frank Williams , architect of more than 20 buildings in Manhattan, as well as buildings in Dubai, Seoul, Taipei and Bangkok, and Mikhail Posokhin , who recreated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, reconstructed the Old Gostiny Dvor, worked on the project.
Above the ground level, 75 floors were erected, the underground part was deepened on 5 floors, where a parking lot, commercial premises and technical equipment are located.
Next on the list is the Eurasia skyscraper with a height of 308.9 meters, a 70-storey building with offices, shops and a fitness center.
The " Capital City " complex in the same architectural ensemble "Moscow-City" consists of the 76-storey tower "Moscow" and the 69-storey "Saint Petersburg", and the 18-storey section connects them. The Capital City is the fifth tallest skyscraper in Europe. It combines office complexes and residential apartments. The height of the building is 302 meters.
Until the end of construction of the “City of Capitals”, the highest in Europe was the “Embankment Tower”. The complex consists of three buildings: 17, 27 and 59 floors, 85, 127 and 264 meters high, respectively. The Towers houses the offices of IBM, GE, Symantec, Citibank, Toshiba and many other companies.
Especially in the ensemble of the Moscow City, the Evolution tower is noticeable. Outwardly, it resembles a DNA helix. The height of the 54-storey skyscraper is 255 meters.
Next to the "Federation", "Evolution" and "Capital City" erected a 60-storey tower "Empire" with a height of 239 meters. Skyscraper was put into operation on November 23, 2011. In total, the tower has 30 elevators, there are offices, apartments and retail space.
But Moscow City looks especially beautiful at night ... The photo is unable to convey beauty, it needs to be seen with our own eyes.
A series of Moscow City skyscrapers in the ranking of the tallest buildings in Russia is interrupted in seventh place. Here we have a residential skyscraper in Chapaevsky Lane . Its height is 264.1 meters, the maximum number of floors - 57.
The architecture of the building is easily guessed by the very Stalin Empire, or Stalin, in which the "Seven Stalin's skyscrapers" were built.
The jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2012 for the 13th time chose the best skyscrapers of the world. Fifth place was taken by the “House on Mosfilmovskaya” work by architect Sergey Skuratov .
The residential building consists of two buildings - a 213-meter 53-story tower and a 132-meter 34-story tower, which are connected by a low-rise section. In total the house is served by 17 high-speed elevators.
As soon as the building was completely erected, the city authorities counted 22 extra floors in it . Later - only 14. Yury Luzhkov already almost made the building shorten, but the mayor himself was dismissed, and the house was left alone.
If you thought that all Russian skyscrapers are in Moscow - you were mistaken. In Yekaterinburg, the “Iset” tower with a height of 212.8 meters, including the “crown”, proudly flaunts. This is a 52-storey residential building with 4 underground floors.
The house was put into operation only on January 8, 2017, seven years later than planned. In parallel with the construction of the building, the developer had to sue and prove the legality of construction.
Interestingly, the initial design was very different from the current building. Pay attention to the balconies and spire on the roof. The height with the spire should have been up to 215 meters.
And here we no longer see the balconies, the winter garden above and the high spire. French architects seemed to pay tribute to constructivism, making the Iset Tower look like the Iset Hotel .
The Iset Hotel, originally built as a hostel for NKVD employees, is one of the most prominent monuments to this architectural style in Yekaterinburg. It has a sleek exterior and the shape of a semi-cylinder. In contrast, the tower has the shape of a cylinder. But the similarities can be caught.
By the way, the hotel became one of the first high-rises in Yekaterinburg. The 11-storey house with a semicircular facade seemed to be a revolution in architecture, resembling the Colosseum.
The second tallest tower in Yekaterinburg is Vysotsky . The family of Vladimir Vysotsky officially allowed to use this surname as a name for a skyscraper in the center of the city. The height of the building is 188.3 meters, it is 54 floors with 6 technical floors.
The opening of the building in 2011 was timed to the premiere of the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive, ”and Nikita Vysotsky took part in the ceremony. On the second floor there is a museum named after the actor.
Let's go back to Moscow. Now the city has a number of residential buildings, which are included in the list of the tallest buildings in Russia. In 2005, the residential complex "Sparrow Hills" was commissioned. It consists of seven buildings on a single styloblate, three of which have a height of 188, 176 and 172 meters.
The residential complex "Continental" lacks only 4 meters to get ahead of the opponent in the form of a residential complex " Sparrow Hills". The height of the building is 184 meters, the number of floors is 50.
43-storey residential building "Edelweiss" in half a kilometer from the metro station "Slavyansky Boulevard" boasts its own water park, bar, restaurant, fitness center, bank and helipad. The height of the building is 176 meters with a spire.
Here in 2004, filmed the game "Shootout" . If anyone watched, write - is it worth it?
The second building of the LCD "Tricolor" has 46 floors and a height of 192 meters. The complex includes residential apartments, office space, non-residential premises, shops and cafes, as well as underground and aboveground parking.
But the most famous residential complex in Moscow is the Scarlet Sails . The highest, fourth building, has 48 floors and a height of 179 meters.
Fame "Scarlet Sails" received due to many rumors. In the 2000s, they said that Khodorkovsky bought the penthouse, and that the building was so high that it prevented takeoffs and landings at the Tushino airfield. Although we all know that this place is more often used for concerts, and takeoffs from it are extremely rare.
→ The highest skyscrapers of the world.
Constructivism: the first skyscraper
In 1913, at the corner of Kalashny lane in Moscow, a merchant A. I. Titov completed a seven-story apartment building. Under the guidance of architect Nikolai Dmitrievich Strukov, the house was built in a hurry, but in March 1913 one of the walls collapsed and filled the alley with bricks, logs and iron fragments in the height of two floors. This was the third collapsed structure of Strukov. The house was reduced to five floors, but by 1923-1925 the sixth and seventh were again built, and the building itself went to Mosselprom.
')
In 1925, a flour warehouse and the administration of Moscow grocery stores and beer shops were placed on the first floor of the building, above were the directorate, the accounting department, the communist cell and the local committee. The workers of the Babayevsky factory lived in the residential part of the building.
Here we are talking only about seven floors - this house is not so high. And in the 1950s, the construction of high-rise buildings began with much more zeal.
Staliens: Seven Stalin's skyscrapers
In 1930, the Stalinist architecture, or Stalans, took the stage, replacing rationalism and constructivism. Seven skyscrapers in Moscow are called "seven sisters" or "seven Stalin skyscrapers". Initially, the USSR Council of Ministers in 1947 decided to build eight tall buildings, of which the highest was supposed to be the Palace of Soviets on the site of the blown-up Temple of Christ the Savior. As a result, this particular skyscraper was not built.
The first Stalin skyscraper, which began to build, was a residential building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment . This house alone was to become a “city within a city.” In order to have enough space for this one building, four lanes were demolished in Moscow.
It all started with the “Old” building, a 9-storey residential building overlooking the Moscow River, completed in 1940 - before the decision of the Council of Ministers to build high-rises. The central part of the building was completed by 1952. The height of the building is 176 meters, and the number of floors, including technical ones, is 32.
Prisoners who, according to data from various sources, left the inscriptions “built by cons” throughout the house, were attracted to the construction of the building.
Photos of these inscriptions I could not find.
In the bend of the Moskva River in 1953, they began to build the “Hotel building in Dorogomilovo”, which was given the name “Ukraine” under Khrushchev. In 1957, when the building was completed, Kutuzov Avenue was opened - the hotel stands at the very beginning. At the time of opening on May 25, 1957, the hotel was recognized as the largest in Europe.
The height of the building is 206 meters, including a 73-meter spire. In the central volume of the building - 34 floors. Now the hotel has 497 rooms ranging from 25 to 370 square meters.
The highest man-made monument to Joseph Stalin was the main building of Lomonosov Moscow State University . The construction was attended by prisoners, for whom on the 22nd floor they organized a camp for 700 people.
The height of the central building of this high-rise is 183.2 meters, not counting the spire. With a spire - 240 meters. The building was built from 1949 to 1953. Number of floors - 36, and elevators - 68 pieces (correct who studied there). The university itself in this building on the Sparrow Hills opened on May 7, 1955.
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina worked on the design of the facades, for which we owe the monument “Worker and Collective Farm Girl” and the monument to Pyotr Tchaikovsky on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street.
Foundations and framework developed N.V. Nikitin, the creator of the Ostankino television tower. One of the problems with the construction was weak ground. The designer used a box-like foundation, as well as flexible columns on the ground floor, metal cross-section columns, and many other solutions that made it possible to build the tallest building for the next 37 years in Europe.
On Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in Moscow, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is located in a building with a height of 172 meters. In addition to the style of the building, the USSR resembles a coat of arms of 144 square meters at an altitude of 114 meters. The number of floors in the building is 27. At the time of construction in 1953 there were 28 elevators in the building, of which 18 are high-speed.
The building was designed by architects V. G. Gelfreikh , who created the design of the building of the Russian State Library, and M. A. Minkus .
Sculptor GI worked on the stucco work on the building portal . Motovilov , whose service record includes the design of Moscow Metro stations Electrozavodskaya, Novokuznetskaya, Smolenskaya, Prospekt Mira, Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya and Komsomolskaya.
1952 Alexander Ivanovich Baransky (1890-1965) “Moscow. View of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the embankment ”.
A.N. Dushkin , the architect of the Central Children's World, and B.S. Mezentsev , who designed the railway stations in Smolensk, Kharkov, Vitebsk, Borodino and Yartsev, worked after the Great Patriotic War, above the high-rise building on the Red Gate Square.
The building is located at the highest point of the Garden Ring. The height of the skyscraper is 138 meters, this is 24 floors in the central building. The side hulls have floors from 11 to 15.
Under one of the buildings is located the lobby of the metro station Krasnye Vorota. But the most interesting thing is that the station and the building were built simultaneously. For a while the house had to stand on the edge of the pit, and after the precipitation of the soil, it would tilt. The problem was solved by building the building initially with a slope, and the ground froze. When the ground melted, the building sagged and fell vertically. This task was so difficult to calculate that they never used the method anywhere else.
In 1955, aviation industry workers and test pilots received apartments in a residential building with 450 apartments built on Kudrinskaya Square. This building, with a central volume of 24 residential floors and side buildings with 18 residential floors, has a height of 156 meters with a spire.
This is how the House of Aviators looks from the star on the steeple.
In 1949-1954, the Leningradskaya Hotel was built on Kalanchevskaya Street, a 17-storey building with a height of just 136 meters — not much compared to the other high-rises.
The building was developed by A. B. Boretsky , who later designed the Hotel Moscow, and L. M. Polyakov , architect of the USSR Embassies in Ethiopia and Albania.
Architect Polyakov was criticized for the interior of the hotel. Too chic seemed interior. The newspaper Pravda wrote in 1955: “Major excesses were allowed in the design and construction of high-rise buildings. For example, the construction of the Leningradskaya Hotel for three hundred and fifty-four rooms on Kalanchevskaya Square in Moscow (architects Polyakov and Boretsky) spent as much money as would have been needed to build an economically designed hotel for a thousand rooms ”( source ).
The newspaper took these theses from a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, where he compares Stalin's skyscrapers and many other buildings, distinguished by the beauty of architecture and decoration, the presence of stucco molding and chandeliers, with churches: So? Silhouette such, comrades. Take with Kuntsevo look it. Do you like the silhouette of the church? I somehow, you know, do not want to argue with your taste. But for housing it is not necessary. After all, God does not live in church, he uses this church for certain purposes. ” And after that Polyakov was deprived of the Stalin Prize. Although the architect of this award was not. Other architects in a hurry simplified the houses that were already built, the massive construction of the "abrasive" houses began - buildings without exterior decoration, ugly five-story boxes.
And below in the photo - Woolworth Building. It strongly resembles the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Architect Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, who was commissioned in 1947 to develop a project for the construction of high-rise buildings, received additional education at New York University and for 11 years of his life in the United States implemented several projects, including skyscrapers. Having accumulated experience and ideas, Oltarzhevsky tried to follow in order to develop them to maximalism, or better - “Bolshevism”. He took neo-gothic and with imperial scale turned it into a Stalinist empire.
Modernism: Moscow City
In the rating of skyscrapers of Russia, the first 12 positions, except the seventh, are occupied by the Moscow-City towers. For the first time, the construction project of the Moscow International Business Center was mentioned back in 1992. The initiator was a Soviet and Russian architect, Boris Ivanovich Thor , who proposed the project to Yury Luzhkov. The project was being hatched for a long time, active construction began in general only by 2005. Boris Thor, unfortunately, did not have time to see the results of the entire project - he died in 2009.
The height of the main building of the Moscow State University at 240 meters does not seem to be such an impressive result compared to the highest skyscrapers in Russia at the moment. The tower "East" in Moscow City has risen above the city by 373.7 meters, it is 97 floors. "West" is somewhat lower - only 62 floors and the same 240 meters, as in Moscow State University. The foundation for the construction of the Federation Tower complex left 14 thousand cubic meters of concrete, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Towers from the foundation to the upper floor permeate 25 perimeter columns. Stability is added to the building by outrigger floors of high-strength steel structures, located every 25-30 floors.
By the way, there are 67 elevators in the “Tower of the Federation” - almost as many as at MSU.
The second tallest building in the country - MFC "Oko". South and North towers have a height of 354.1 and 341.4 meters, up to 85 floors. Plus 15 levels of underground parking under the building. You can buy two-room apartments here for only 40 with a small million rubles .
The third tallest building in Europe is the Mercury City Tower skyscraper with a height of 338.8 meters. Frank Williams , architect of more than 20 buildings in Manhattan, as well as buildings in Dubai, Seoul, Taipei and Bangkok, and Mikhail Posokhin , who recreated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, reconstructed the Old Gostiny Dvor, worked on the project.
Above the ground level, 75 floors were erected, the underground part was deepened on 5 floors, where a parking lot, commercial premises and technical equipment are located.
Next on the list is the Eurasia skyscraper with a height of 308.9 meters, a 70-storey building with offices, shops and a fitness center.
The " Capital City " complex in the same architectural ensemble "Moscow-City" consists of the 76-storey tower "Moscow" and the 69-storey "Saint Petersburg", and the 18-storey section connects them. The Capital City is the fifth tallest skyscraper in Europe. It combines office complexes and residential apartments. The height of the building is 302 meters.
Until the end of construction of the “City of Capitals”, the highest in Europe was the “Embankment Tower”. The complex consists of three buildings: 17, 27 and 59 floors, 85, 127 and 264 meters high, respectively. The Towers houses the offices of IBM, GE, Symantec, Citibank, Toshiba and many other companies.
Especially in the ensemble of the Moscow City, the Evolution tower is noticeable. Outwardly, it resembles a DNA helix. The height of the 54-storey skyscraper is 255 meters.
Next to the "Federation", "Evolution" and "Capital City" erected a 60-storey tower "Empire" with a height of 239 meters. Skyscraper was put into operation on November 23, 2011. In total, the tower has 30 elevators, there are offices, apartments and retail space.
But Moscow City looks especially beautiful at night ... The photo is unable to convey beauty, it needs to be seen with our own eyes.
Staliens: residential skyscraper in Chapaevsky Lane
A series of Moscow City skyscrapers in the ranking of the tallest buildings in Russia is interrupted in seventh place. Here we have a residential skyscraper in Chapaevsky Lane . Its height is 264.1 meters, the maximum number of floors - 57.
The architecture of the building is easily guessed by the very Stalin Empire, or Stalin, in which the "Seven Stalin's skyscrapers" were built.
Residential complex on Mosfilmovskaya
The jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2012 for the 13th time chose the best skyscrapers of the world. Fifth place was taken by the “House on Mosfilmovskaya” work by architect Sergey Skuratov .
The residential building consists of two buildings - a 213-meter 53-story tower and a 132-meter 34-story tower, which are connected by a low-rise section. In total the house is served by 17 high-speed elevators.
As soon as the building was completely erected, the city authorities counted 22 extra floors in it . Later - only 14. Yury Luzhkov already almost made the building shorten, but the mayor himself was dismissed, and the house was left alone.
Towers "Iset" and "Vysotsky" in Yekaterinburg
If you thought that all Russian skyscrapers are in Moscow - you were mistaken. In Yekaterinburg, the “Iset” tower with a height of 212.8 meters, including the “crown”, proudly flaunts. This is a 52-storey residential building with 4 underground floors.
The house was put into operation only on January 8, 2017, seven years later than planned. In parallel with the construction of the building, the developer had to sue and prove the legality of construction.
Interestingly, the initial design was very different from the current building. Pay attention to the balconies and spire on the roof. The height with the spire should have been up to 215 meters.
And here we no longer see the balconies, the winter garden above and the high spire. French architects seemed to pay tribute to constructivism, making the Iset Tower look like the Iset Hotel .
The Iset Hotel, originally built as a hostel for NKVD employees, is one of the most prominent monuments to this architectural style in Yekaterinburg. It has a sleek exterior and the shape of a semi-cylinder. In contrast, the tower has the shape of a cylinder. But the similarities can be caught.
By the way, the hotel became one of the first high-rises in Yekaterinburg. The 11-storey house with a semicircular facade seemed to be a revolution in architecture, resembling the Colosseum.
The second tallest tower in Yekaterinburg is Vysotsky . The family of Vladimir Vysotsky officially allowed to use this surname as a name for a skyscraper in the center of the city. The height of the building is 188.3 meters, it is 54 floors with 6 technical floors.
The opening of the building in 2011 was timed to the premiere of the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive, ”and Nikita Vysotsky took part in the ceremony. On the second floor there is a museum named after the actor.
Residential complexes in Moscow
Let's go back to Moscow. Now the city has a number of residential buildings, which are included in the list of the tallest buildings in Russia. In 2005, the residential complex "Sparrow Hills" was commissioned. It consists of seven buildings on a single styloblate, three of which have a height of 188, 176 and 172 meters.
The residential complex "Continental" lacks only 4 meters to get ahead of the opponent in the form of a residential complex " Sparrow Hills". The height of the building is 184 meters, the number of floors is 50.
43-storey residential building "Edelweiss" in half a kilometer from the metro station "Slavyansky Boulevard" boasts its own water park, bar, restaurant, fitness center, bank and helipad. The height of the building is 176 meters with a spire.
Here in 2004, filmed the game "Shootout" . If anyone watched, write - is it worth it?
The second building of the LCD "Tricolor" has 46 floors and a height of 192 meters. The complex includes residential apartments, office space, non-residential premises, shops and cafes, as well as underground and aboveground parking.
But the most famous residential complex in Moscow is the Scarlet Sails . The highest, fourth building, has 48 floors and a height of 179 meters.
Fame "Scarlet Sails" received due to many rumors. In the 2000s, they said that Khodorkovsky bought the penthouse, and that the building was so high that it prevented takeoffs and landings at the Tushino airfield. Although we all know that this place is more often used for concerts, and takeoffs from it are extremely rare.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/401033/
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