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Russia Tower
Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya, plots 17-18 Presnensky Centre
Moscow MSK Russia
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| Status: | cancelled | | Construction Dates | | Floor Count | 118 | | Basement Floors | 8 | | Floor Area | 520,800 m² |
|  | | Building Uses | | - mixed use | | - hotel | | - observation | | - office | | - parking garage | | - residential | | - retail | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | - concrete core | | Architectural Style | | - futurism | | Materials | | - glass | | - steel | | - aluminium | | - marble | | - carbon-fibre | | - granite | | - concrete, reinforced |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 2009 ft | | | | | | | | | | Top floor | | 1641 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Architect: Foster + Partners.
• Owner and Developer: Russian Land.
• Others: Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc., Speirs and Major Associates, STT Group, Waterman Group PLC.
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• Area: 5605891 ft².
• Construction was put on hold in October 2008 due to financial problems, and the project was cancelled in June 2009. The site will be developed as a car park.
• The triangular 3-starpoint cross section shape allows the residential, hotel and office elements to all have their own entrance.
• Would have been the tallest building in Europe if completed, and also the tallest naturally ventilated tower in the world.
• Green certificate means to building, a triple glazed low E façade, solar cells which feed electricity back into the Moscow grid, precipitation harvesting which reduces the need for the toilets' water by 30% and the potential for thermopiles and cooling by river water.
• Groundbreaking was attended by Moscow's mayor, Yuir Luzhkov, as well as members of the Moscow Government.
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