Copyright: Photograph © Andrey Belimov-Gushchin, 2025 / provided by SPEECH

Administrative, public and business complex “Nevskaya ratusha”

information:

status
building
date

2006 —2010 / 2010 — 2025
place
Russia, St. Petersburg
city-block 1034 B, bordering with Novgorodskaya and Moiseenko streets, and Degtyarny side street
function
Office & Civic / Administrative and Business Centre
Total Area
370 347,7 м²

Evgeniy Gerasimov & partners /

Russia

Tchoban Voss Architekten /

Russia

SPEECH /

Russia

Design Team

Gerasimov E.L., Tchoban S.E., Petrova Z.V., Reznikova E.A., Kuznetsova T.V., Manov O.V., Orlova-Sheiner M.E., Gvozdik A.G., Kashirina V., Frederik S. Scholz, Ramona Schwarzweller, Ingo Schwarzweller

Partners and Clients

ZAO “M”

Copyright: Photograph © Andrey Belimov-Gushchin, 2025 / provided by SPEECH

Archi.ru about this project:

12.09.2025

Julia Tarabarina. St. Petersburg vs Rome

The center of St. Petersburg is, as we know, sacred – but few people can say with certainty where this “sacred place” actually begins and ends. It’s not about the formal boundaries, “from the Obvodny Canal to the Bolshaya Nevka”, but about the vibe that feels true to the city center. With the Nevskaya Ratusha complex – built to a design that won an international competition – Evgeny Gerasimov and Sergei Tchoban created an “image of the center” within its territory. And not so much the image of St. Petersburg itself, as that of a global metropolis. This is something new, something that hasn’t appeared in the city for a long time. In this article, we study the atmosphere, recall precedents, and even reflect on who and when first called St. Petersburg the “new Rome”. Clearly, the idea is alive for a reason.

Moscow has yet to succeed in bringing all of its government agencies together in one building, but St. Petersburg already has. This alone makes Nevskaya Ratusha an exceptional phenomenon though, of course, there are other reasons for that. The proj... more