High-rise complex on Leningradskoye highway

information:

status
project
date

2004 —2005
place
Russia, Moscow
function
Mixed-use / Office-dominated Mixed-use Complex
High-rise complex with a four-star hotel, A-class business centre, retail centre, 2 restaurants and a congress hall located in the “geocupola”
Total Area
350 000 м²

Alexandrov and partners /

Russia

Design Team

Dmitry Aleksandrov, Pavel Kuricyn

Archi.ru about this project:

24.03.2008

Julia Tarabarina. Image of the Kremlin

The mixed-use complex on Leningradskoye highway is the architectural concept designed by the studio of Dmitry Aleksandrov in 2005 but how it often happens it remained uncertain whether the work would be continued or not. This is the reason why there have never been any articles on the project, though if consider it thoroughly, there appears an interesting combination of size and laconism in it, and this refers the audience to the works of Leonid Pavlov, one of the best architects of modernism of Brezhnev period, or to the projects of Ivan Leonidov, the famous avant-gardist, or to Ledoux

Actually – says Dmitry Aleksandrov – the prototype of the project is La Geode – the glass sphere of techno-park Villette in Paris designed by Adrien Fainsilber and G&233;rard Chamayou, it was opened in 1985. The French Geode contains sports palace, ... more