Mercury City Tower
Mercury City Tower | |
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Меркурий Cити Tауэр | |
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General information | |
Status | Complete |
Type |
Commercial offices Residential condominiums |
Architectural style | Structural Expressionism |
Location |
Moscow International Business Center Moscow, Russia |
Coordinates | 55°45′2″N 37°32′22.6″E / 55.75056°N 37.539611°ECoordinates: 55°45′2″N 37°32′22.6″E / 55.75056°N 37.539611°E |
Construction started | 2009 |
Cost | US$ 1 billion |
Owner | Igor Kesaev |
Height | |
Roof | 338.8 m (1,112 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count |
75 5 below ground |
Floor area | 180,160 m2 (1,939,200 sq ft) |
Lifts/elevators | 31 |
Design and construction | |
Architect |
M.M. Posokhin Frank Williams and partners G.L. Sirota |
Developer | LLC Rasen Stroy |
Structural engineer | Mosproject-2 |
Main contractor | Rasen Construction |
References | |
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Mercury City Tower (Russian: Меркурий Сити Тауэр) is a 338.8 meter tall skyscraper in Moscow and one of the tallest buildings in Europe.
Located in the Moscow International Business Center, construction started in 2009. The Mercury City Tower is a multipurpose building with housing, offices and shops.[5] The tower is located on plot 14 of the MIBC. The structure's height is 339 meters [6] above ground, with five underground floors. The building topped out at 338.8 m (1,112 ft) on 1 November 2012 and overtook The Shard in London as Europe's tallest building.[7]
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Wireframe image of the tower
References
- ↑ "Mercury City Tower". CTBUH Skyscraper Database.
- ↑ Mercury City Tower at Emporis
- ↑ "Mercury City Tower". SkyscraperPage.
- ↑ Mercury City Tower at Structurae
- ↑ "Mercury City Tower, Moscow". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ↑ Emporis GmbH. "Mercury City Tower, Moscow, Russia". Emporis.com. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ↑ Ilya Khrennikov, 'Moscow Mercury City Tops Shard as Europe’s Tallest Tower', Bloomberg, 1 November 2012.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mercury City Tower. |
- Official website
- M.M. Posokhin, russian architect website
- Mosproject-2, russian architect agency's website
- Mosproject-2, the project on the russian architect agency's website
- The project on Frank Williams & Partners Architects LLP's website
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