Moscow City is a grandiose futuristic architectural metropolitan complex. He has already become famous far beyond the borders of Russia. Here were recorded some of the highest European and world record numbers. The St. Petersburg Tower is part of the City of Capitals project, which is part of the complex. Today, the "City of Capitals" takes the largest honorable third place among European buildings, consisting of two buildings.
Briefly about the complex "Moscow City"
The St. Petersburg Tower is part of one of the most prominent and memorable projects of the complex, the construction of which was planned in 1991, started in 1992 and continues to this day. Financial difficulties forced to freeze the construction, but work was resumed and Moscow-City will continue to grow until 2020, and possibly longer.
Financing of the construction of a significant part of the project is carried out by Russian companies, although foreign specialists are involved in the work.
Moscow City is a business, shopping, entertainment and residential complex at the same time.
Here you can work, play sports, visit restaurants, shops, a water park, beauty salons, admire the city from observation platforms or through panoramic windows and just live.
You can get to the city of the future by land, air or water.
"City of capitals": towers
The skyscrapers included in the project bear the names of two capitals - Moscow and St. Petersburg. The towers in Moscow City differ in design and dimensions. The "City of Capitals" is immediately remembered and difficult to confuse - houses consist of rectangular segments that are shifted horizontally in relation to each other. Such a non-standard solution gives the building dynamism, deprives the sensation of static, immobility.
The author of Cities of Capitals is the architectural company NBBJ, founded in 1943 in the United States and now leading operations around the world. The main architect of the project is Eric van Egeraat.
Construction was started in 2005 and completed in 2009.
In the towers "Moscow" and "St. Petersburg" ("Moscow City") are apartments, offices and trading floors.
The first building, named after the official capital, is almost 50 meters above the St. Petersburg tower. The height of the skyscrapers is 302 and 257 meters - 73 and 69 floors, respectively. The towers are united by an 18-story base.
The total area is 286 680 m 2 , residential - 101 000 m 2 .
Despite the superiority of the skyscraper "Moscow", the entire project "City of Capitals" became famous under the name "Tower" St. Petersburg ".
What do Moscow and St. Petersburg skyscrapers look like
If the need or desire prompts you to search for specific buildings in the city of the future, then you should not worry, since being on the territory of Moscow City is not difficult to navigate, especially if you plan to visit the highest buildings that make up it, it’s enough to know what the skyscrapers and their names look like.
Once having learned about what the “City of Capitals” looks like, it is hardly possible to forget it or mix it up with other projects of the complex. In the photo "Moscow City", the tower "St. Petersburg", in particular, does not look as impressive as in life, but this acquaintance may be quite enough to recognize buildings later.
Where is it and how to get there
The address of the tower "St. Petersburg" in "Moscow City": Presnenskaya embankment, house 8, building 1.
Those who want to avoid traffic jams and get into the complex quickly can take the metro and get to the International, Vystavochnaya or Business Center stations. A light metro line has also been built linking Moscow City with metropolitan airports.
It is possible to get to the complex by water using passenger or tourist routes.
For lovers of quick and easy movement, who have a substantial supply of funds for transportation costs, a helipad and more than twenty flying cars are provided that can be rented specifically for visiting the complex.
Those who prefer to travel by land should better get to the stop "Derbenevskaya Street". Buses No. 243 and No. 12, as well as several fixed-route taxis run daily.
Arriving at the complex, easy to navigate. Those who wish to visit the “City of Capitals” can easily find out and notice the building you need: skyscrapers are notable buildings, and there are no houses in the complex that even remotely resemble what the St. Petersburg tower looks like.
You can also get to Moscow-City using public transportation by stops located at metro stations such as Marxistskaya, Serpukhovskaya, Krestyanskaya Zastava, Paveletskaya and Taganskaya, passing from four to seven stops on buses No. 106, 632, 13 or minibus No. 13m.
The current flight numbers, the exact travel time and their route should be found on specialized service resources.
In the immediate vicinity of the Moscow-City complex are located such transport hubs as the Paveletsky Station, the Moscow-Tovarnaya and Paveletskaya stations. From them to the city of the future can be easily reached on foot.
Everyone who wants to use a car, it is better to take into account the congestion of parking, despite the thousands of parking spaces, and the fact that they are all paid. In addition, on the territory of the Moscow-City complex, rules apply that differ from those approved in other parts of the capital.
Interesting facts about the "City of Capitals"
The project participated in the Supertalls World Cup competition at the SkyscraperCity forum and made serious competition to the famous New York skyscraper Empire State Building. Despite the fact that at the world level the tower "St. Petersburg" did not win, among the European buildings, according to the results of the same survey, the skyscraper took the leading place, ahead of London rival Mary-Ex.
In 2011, this project entered the top ten most aesthetic skyscrapers in the world.
Until November 2012, the Moscow Tower of the City of Capitals project was the tallest building in the CIS. Then it was replaced by other towers of the complex - first the Mercury, and later the highest Federation at the moment. Now the closest to the sky building of the "Cities of Capitals" in Europe is the third highest.
After the object was commissioned, the developer managed to add two more floors to the tower "St. Petersburg".
It was here that part of the filming of both films "Duhless" took place.
Opinions and advice of guests, residents and employees of Moscow City about the St. Petersburg Tower
The reviews of those who have already visited the complex or are visiting it regularly can help newcomers to better navigate and plan their visit more successfully:
- The business center in the tower "St. Petersburg" is equipped with entrances from all four sides, as well as from the central core of the complex "Moscow City", which is very convenient for visitors and employees.
- The apartments have panoramic windows that open up stunning landscapes, and the penthouses are particularly comfortable and have exclusive views of the two cardinal points - Kremlin View and River View.
- People who have visited skyscrapers for the first time may experience some difficulties in finding the necessary elevators.
- In order to get into the apartment there is a separate entrance (from the yard).
- The view is good even at the level of the twentieth floor, but still it is better to try to climb as high as possible.
- Restaurants of the tower "St. Petersburg" in the "Moscow City" - the place of lunch pilgrimage for the majority of employees of the complex. Therefore, if you want to avoid noise and crowding during meals, then from 13 to 16 hours it is better to refuse to visit them.
The decision to visit any attraction depends on who accepts it, and, perhaps, what seems to be an advantage for some will become an occasion for criticism from others. A reliable opinion on the sensational project can only be made by visiting the complex.