ST. PETERSBURG | Lakhta Center | 463 M / 1,517 FT | 86 FLOORS - Page 3

MolsonExport · #41 Posted **Jun 23, 2011, 2:09 AM**

the mother of all sore thumbs.

Gamma-Hamster · #42 Posted **Jun 24, 2011, 6:04 PM**

http://www.sptimes.ru/story/34162

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Last month, the Okhta Public Business Center, Gazprom’s subsidiary that is in charge of the project, announced the planned skyscraper would be even higher than the 403-meter one designed for Okhta, reaching 500 meters. The plans are to have the British architectural bureau RMJM’s original project of a spiraling glass tower reworked and extended.

Obey · #43 Posted **Jun 24, 2011, 6:11 PM**

Cool proposal.

Gamma-Hamster · #44 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 7:08 PM**

http://proektvlahte.ru/

Gamma-Hamster · #45 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 7:10 PM**

Please change title to:

ST. PETERSBURG | Lakhta Center | 462 M | 86 FLOORS | SITE PREP

Gamma-Hamster · #46 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 7:21 PM**

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120831/175548210.html

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Gazprom to Begin St. Petersburg Skyscraper in October

23:04 31/08/2012

Construction of Gazprom’s 463-meter tall Lakhta Center complex in St. Petersburg will begin in October, the head of the Gazprom subsidiary in charge of the project said.

Gazprom received permission from the city to build the skyscraper complex on the shore of the Gulf of Finland earlier in August.

The site is nine kilometers from the city center. An earlier proposal to build in downtown St. Petersburg, at Okhta Cape, had to be scrapped in the face of stiff public opposition.

“Construction will proceed in phases,” said Alexander Bobkov, the head of ZAO Okhta Public and Business Center, which is overseeing construction of the complex.

“The tower itself will take the longest to build. I think we will break ground in October, since there are no legal or technical issues,” Bobkov said.

The 334,000-square meter complex will serve as the headquarters for Gazprom’s oil arm, Gazprom Neft, and other Gazprom subsidiaries.

Construction is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2018.

Duck From NY · #47 Posted **Sep 23, 2012, 12:38 PM**

Does anyone else think that these cities without skyscrapers (or without many) should start by building up some density before going ahead with these supertalls?

Thefigman · #48 Posted **Sep 28, 2012, 7:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Duck From NY

Does anyone else think that these cities without skyscrapers (or without many) should start by building up some density before going ahead with these supertalls?

Based on the renderings above I'd say that there is no expectation for density at this site because there is no room for it.

In general, I would think that these type of buildings are put in place to help gather other developers to put density in around the site.

Hypothalamus · #49 Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 3:19 AM**

Under Construction:

ST. PETERSBURG | Lakhta Center | 462.5 M / 1517 FT | 86 FLOORS
(per Skyscraper Center)

As of April 16th, 2014...

By Лахта центр

P2000 · #50 Posted **Aug 29, 2014, 7:25 PM**

Main Tower possible ON HOLD!!!

June:

August:

toxteth o'grady · #51 Posted **Aug 30, 2014, 11:59 PM**

I like it better as a hole. Kind of a reverse Pentagon.

Urbannizer · #52 Posted **Sep 12, 2015, 2:21 AM**

The tower is still u/c

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=1233

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Originally Posted by Sergio_Bel

September 2015

https://instagram.com/p/7dE0SdwSo4/?...y=lakhtacenter

Installation of the self-climbing formwork PERI ACS (Automatic Climbing System) for the construction of monolithic structures of the core of the “Lakhta center” tower.
Using external and internal platform ACS-R with a width of up to 8 meters.
Once the concrete has hardened sufficiently the formwork itself will rise up (in steps of one floor of the building) without involving cranes.

tateyb · #53 Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 3:14 PM**

Video Shows Foundation Work for Europe's Next Tallest Tower

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A video recapping the construction progress of the landmark tower was recently posted to the Lakhta Center YouTube channel. Barely off the ground, the project has already broken records. In March 2015, 19,624 cubic metres of concrete were poured for the bottom slab of the box-shaped foundation. That procedure took the record for the largest continuous concrete pour in history from the Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles.

O-tacular · #54 Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 5:27 PM**

I like the tower but always hate it when supertalls are built in the middle of nowhere.

NoirYorkCity · #55 Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 6:36 PM**

Im really surprised this is still under construction despite their economic situation since crimea annexation... lot of foreign companies got withdrawn their activities from Russia which is created a large difference