The high-rise business center under construction in St. Petersburg is often called the Gazprom tower. This building will be the tallest in the Northern capital and the second largest in Europe after the Ostankino Tower. The skyscraper is being built by Gazprom and will house the headquarters of this concern and its company.
Let us recall that initially the construction of a business center 400 meters high was planned to be carried out on a site of 4.7 hectares in the center of the Northern capital, which caused a sharp protest from city defenders and the public. The object fell into security zone, where the monuments included in the list of UNESCO sites are located.
Soon, the governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, canceled the decree allowing the developer to deviate from the permitted height of 100 meters in this place.
A new site of 14 hectares for the construction of the Lakhta tower is located in the north of St. Petersburg at the exit of the city between the Gulf of Finland and Primorskoye Highway. The distance from the construction site to the city center is about 10 km. According to experts, now the Lakhta Tower, although it will be visible from almost all areas of the city, will not block the sights of St. Petersburg and dominate historical sites.
At the same time, the tower will be clearly visible from the sea; it will become a kind of lighthouse, welcoming those sailing into the city by sea. This will be a landmark object of the sea facade of the Northern capital.
Unlike the old project, in Lakhta Center, in addition to the office part, social infrastructure premises will be located.
The office part will occupy premises in the tower itself, and the buildings at its base will be used for social facilities - shops, sports and medical centers, a children's educational center and a planetarium.
At the top of the tower there will be an observation deck, a revolving restaurant and a conference room.
Lakhta Center Tower - brief description
The customer and investor of the project is Gazprom Neft, the construction project was completed by the British architectural bureau RMJM - Robert Matthew Johnson Marshal.
General contractor - Turkish company Renaissance Construction (created in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, founded by Turkish businessmen). Dozens of institutes and construction organizations are involved in the construction of the building.
The height of the building with the spire will be 462 meters, and the total weight of the tower with all the infrastructure, glazing and even furniture and people will be 670 thousand tons.
The area of one office floor is from 668 to 2060 sq. m. meters.
From the side of the Gulf of Finland, the Lakhta Tower center will appear in all its splendor in the form of a spire soaring upward. It can also be compared to a drop of water flying upward.
Peter the Great conceived Petersburg as the sea capital of Russia. And according to the authors of the project, from afar, from the sea, the Lakhta center will look like a snow-white yacht.
The project includes several architectural highlights, the main ones being a modern planetarium and an outdoor amphitheater.
Planetarium
The planetarium, designed for 140 people, will occupy an unusual place - at the height of the fifth floor of one of the buildings adjacent to the tower. It will look like a huge ball, which seems to have been thrown into the building with all its might, and it stuck to the facade. Of course, such a spectacular form of the building cannot but interest everyone who walks or drives by.
During the sessions, a variety of special effects will be used - a moving floor and illusions of lightning and rain, virtual smoke and smells.
Amphitheater
The idea of creating an open amphitheater facing the sea is associated with the need for a smooth transition from high roof to the water space. Here spectators will be able to admire water fountains and various shows on the water, as well as participate in theatrical performances and competitions.
- When laying the foundation, many principles were taken from nature. Thus, the piles at the base of the building, like the roots of a giant tree, go 82 meters into the ground. Above the piles, a “box-shaped” foundation 17 meters high was built, which guarantees the stability of the building
- The maximum permissible deviation of the structure from the vertical over the entire height is no more than 6 millimeters. Not to be confused with the vibration amplitude of a building during a storm wind
- Double-glazed windows have passed a variety of tests: under high pressure of water, air currents and fire. The glass is made using a special film that will not allow the glass to break into fragments
- All materials used in construction are non-flammable or fire resistant. But despite this, the evacuation of people was thought out as much as possible. In the event of a fire alarm, air is pumped into the central core, made of reinforced concrete, which prevents it from becoming smoke-filled. By moving to the central core, where there are stairs, a person is safe
- Will be used for cleaning windows special system, which moves on rails located on the edges of the tower
- In case of strong wind, the top of the building can deviate by 46 cm from the vertical, and at the level of the observation deck (at an altitude of 357 meters) the maximum deviation will be 27 cm
- To prevent birds from crashing into the windows, the double-glazed windows are edged with opaque material, and the glass itself is non-mirror. In addition, during mass flights of flocks, the lighting will be “scaring.” This way the birds will see the glass.
Adjacent territory
An entrance for office employees will be located on the east side of the building. This part of the complex will appear in the form of an arch with a span of 100 meters.
A pedestrian zone with a length of 8 km will begin on the south-eastern side. It will include a bridge and a huge space for holding mass celebrations and festive events.
The northern part of the territory will be used for various exhibitions, and in addition, in the future a railway platform and a metro station will be built here.
In addition, next to the tower there will be a parking lot for tourist buses and a museum of the Poltava ship.
Transport infrastructure
In the future, it is planned to establish a transfer between the Lakhta center and the Chernaya Rechka and Staraya Derevnya metro stations. A metro station is expected to be built in 2025.
The development of transport infrastructure is primarily promoted by the World Cup. In 2018, the Begovaya metro station will be opened, one of the exits of which is located at a distance of just over a kilometer from the Lakhta center, that is, within walking distance.
The Lakhta Center Tower will become the center of the new business district of St. Petersburg, one might say Petersburg City, and the development of transport infrastructure will turn this undeveloped area of the Northern capital into an example of a modern and high-quality urban environment. We would like to remind you that the facility is scheduled to be commissioned in 2018.
In mid-October 2018, the Lakhta Center multifunctional complex, the construction of which began back in 2012, received permission to put into operation. The opening of the first phase of the complex, which is dominated by the tallest skyscraper in Europe, is scheduled for the end of next year, and for many more months work will be carried out at the new Gazprom headquarters on interior decoration, equipment and landscaping of the vast area. However, last summer, during the broadcasts of the 2018 World Cup matches, the world was able to see a new vertical dominant forming the panorama of modern St. Petersburg.
The silhouette of the 462-meter tower, the compositional center and main accent of the complex, is the embodied energy of flame, the symbol and logo of Gazprom. The five wings of the tower rotate by floor by 0.82 degrees relative to their centers, or about 90 degrees over the entire height. As they ascend, they decrease in size, thereby creating the silhouette of a spire, the proportions and shape of which allow it to be perceived as another city spire, stylistically not competing with the existing dominants of the historical center.
Philip Nikandrov. Photo by the Gorproekt press service
The shape of the tower is based on architectural principles laid down by the builders of ancient pyramids: the entire mass of the building is visually directed upward, concentrating at the apex point. Almost all historical vertical dominants of St. Petersburg - spiers and domes - were built according to this principle. The silhouette of the skyscraper is precisely a transitional form from a dome to a spire, with a gradual increase in the radius of curvature from an arc at the bottom to a straight line at the top. The rich plasticity of the tower facades through the organic composition of volumes gives the object dynamism, symbolizing energy and development.
The architectural and technical solutions of the Lakhta Center, on which the team of architects, designers and engineers of the Gorproekt company (general designer of the complex) have been working since 2011, are innovative in many aspects not only for Russia, but also for the whole world. The project, which does not have a single repeating (standard) floor, is technically considered one of the most complex and unique even in comparison with other mega-skyscrapers on the planet; Leaders of the global construction industry, leading contracting companies and manufacturers from Europe and Asia took part in its implementation. Solving the most complex design problems became possible only through the use of the latest BIM technologies and parametric design.
The facade solutions of the complex are especially unique. Firstly, a record amount of glass was used: the area of glazed shells is about 130 thousand square meters. m, of which 72.5 thousand sq. m on the tower. m (this is 16.5 thousand double-glazed windows). In total, more than half a million square meters of glass were used in production, and glass was used not only as a translucent shell of hanging stained-glass windows, but also as a load-bearing structural material: record-high all-glass mullion stands (more than 17 m without a single seam) provide maximum visual lightness and transparency of planar stained glass windows at the level of public spaces of the atrium.
Secondly, the latest synthetic materials were used for translucent shells, for example, ETFE film, from which the pneumatic elements (“cushions”) of the skylight in the central atrium of the stylobate part of the complex are made. This solution made it possible to significantly reduce the weight of the structure of a huge lantern with a length of more than 250 m, while avoiding the risk of icing in the winter. On the facades of stylobate buildings, energy-saving double-thread glazing is used, which provides ventilation of buffer zones in a passive mode. On the tower itself, an intelligent two-thread facade was implemented, which allows (already in active mode) to automatically ventilate the buffer zones between the two threads of the facade - in the summer it will prevent heating of the premises when the ventilation valves are open, and in winter, on the contrary, it will accumulate solar energy due to the “greenhouse effect”, reducing energy consumption for heating with closed ventilation valves.
Curved in three dimensions, the stained glass window of the outer thread is assembled from huge double-glazed windows with an area of 11 square meters. m each. All 15 petal-faces of the facade look like a single shell of glass, curved in a spiral with a 90-degree rotation over the entire height. Each glass unit in plan is bent at an angle of 0.82 degrees when cold (without the use of molds and traditional heating in an oven up to 600 degrees), which allowed saving a huge amount of energy during production. Today, this stained glass window is the largest cold-formed façade in the world by area; it broke the record of our other project - in Moscow City.
The Lakhta Center tower, however, is not only the tallest in Europe, but also the northernmost mega-skyscraper in the world. For several months a year, the 100-meter spire will be hidden in low clouds, that is, in an area of increased risk of condensation on the surfaces of its facades. Anti-icing measures are extremely important here, and the task was complicated by the fact that no one before us had built such tall buildings at such a latitude and in such a humid climate.
"Lakhta Center". Photo by the Gorproekt press service
In winter, condensation will freeze on the surfaces of the spire in the form of ice, which can threaten the fall of fragments or entire icicles, so we have developed unique system capstan anti-icing, which is designed to combat ice accumulation on large metal surfaces. In the tower spire, glass was replaced with cladding made of of stainless steel with a heating system in the cold season, and a steel mesh that allows you to control the formation of dangerous ice and icicles on the shell of the upper part of the skyscraper.
A unique façade maintenance system for cleaning and repairing stained glass or replacing double-glazed windows moves along a spiral path along a rail parallel to the façade shell. Active dynamic architectural lighting and anti-icing systems are also integrated into these rails. Special sensors will monitor when it is necessary to turn on local heating in places where ice may appear. The flashing aircraft obstacle lights at the top of the spire operate 24 hours a day and are visible to pilots of aircraft and ships from many tens of kilometers away.
Based on the totality of innovative energy-efficient solutions used in the project, the facility claims a LEED gold certificate, which makes it a national leader in energy saving and respect for the environment. environment- after all, we are talking about the headquarters of the largest energy company.
Of course, Lakhta Center is not only a tower, it is a huge complex with an area of 400 thousand square meters. m, of which the tower occupies only a third. The area of the first phase is 8 hectares, and large landscaped spaces will appear on them: three public squares, an open amphitheater with a stage against the backdrop of the bay, an entertaining science museum with a planetarium, and a multifunctional concert hall. The tower is completed by a publicly accessible observation deck in the lower space of the spire, an absolute center of attraction for tourists.
“Lakhta Center” is the urban flagship of the agglomeration practically in the center of the lagoon ring of the Gulf of Finland, surrounded by the ring highway (Ring Road) - it is in its orbit that “Greater St. Petersburg” will develop in the 21st century. And the tower on the shore of the bay, in the geometric center of this orbit, like a grandiose lighthouse, forms the sea facade of the metropolis directly opposite the passenger port, which simultaneously receives 5-7 cruise ships during the summer tourist season. And they are all met and escorted by the Lakhta Center, the symbol of modern St. Petersburg.
Lakhta Center is the tallest building not only in Russia, but throughout Europe. The official website of the project is http://lakhta.center.
Lakhta Center (render)
“Lakhta Center” (officially written without a hyphen - “Lakhta Center”) is a public and business complex built in Lakhta, the historical part of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, the key object of which is the headquarters of the state concern Gazprom. The complex includes a skyscraper and a multifunctional building (MFB), divided by an atrium into the South and North blocks. The total area of the premises is 400 thousand m². The project was fully completed in the fall of 2018. The skyscraper has become the northernmost in the world and Europe: it is 88 meters larger than the Moscow Federation Tower skyscraper, although in terms of number of floors it is inferior to it and the 100-story, 435-meter Grozny skyscraper Akhmat Tower under construction. If we take absolute height, then the Lakhta Center ranks second among the tallest buildings in Russia and Europe, second only to the 540-meter Ostankino TV tower. The height of the building is 462 meters with 87 floors, with 117.75 meters being the spire made of metal structures weighing more than 2,000 tons.
ADDRESS OF LAKHTA CENTER
Lakhtinsky pr., 2, bldg. 3
How to get to Lakhta Center?
Metro near Lakhta Center
A metro station near the new skyscraper is one of the promising projects being discussed, since the nearest operating station (Old Village, line 5) is located 5.5 km from the complex.
By car
A new interchange is being built to Lakhta Center, which will ensure its transport accessibility. Now the construction of the Lakhta Center can be observed up close from the Primorskoye Highway, while the high-rise dominant of the city can be seen from other points.
To travel around St. Petersburg, it is convenient to use taxi applications: Uber, Gett, Yandex.Taxi, Maxim, 777.
Everything about Lakhta Center in three minutes on video:
Public observation deck
On the top floor of the Lakhta Center, at 360 meters, there will be a publicly accessible observation deck - closed with panoramic glazing. This is the highest observation deck in Russia and Europe. This is higher than the Shard observation deck in London and is written on the official website of the Lakhta Center. I think the price of visiting the observation deck will be quite comparable with similar prices around the world - about 20 dollars.
Viewing angle – 360 degrees. Special high-speed elevators will lift visitors to heights.
Such a site will be a prominent point on tourist routes St. Petersburg.
Climbing up to the observation deck you will find yourself above the clouds.
On the Medusa website there was interesting material about cool figures about the Lakhta Center, which Pikabu put together along with the official website.
The task of the project initiators is to create a new point attraction of business activity, freeing historical St. Petersburg from the unusual functions of a business center and the accompanying transport load.
This approach to the organization of urban space corresponds to the development strategy of St. Petersburg - the transition to a polycentric development model.
About the chosen place for construction
Initially, Lakhta was not Lakhta at all, but Okhta Center. And it was built in the Krasnogvardeisky district. The project had two complaints: the high-rise building spoils the historical appearance of St. Petersburg and the location of the “Swedish Fortress Nyenschanz” monument on the construction site. Governor Valentina Matvienko decided to move construction in the Primorsky district to the 300th anniversary park to alluvial areas. Because of this transfer, the height of the building also increased: 462 m versus 396 m.
About the main entrance
About the pace of construction
On average, in six days the complex grows by one floor.
About the attendance of the complex
About the national question
About 6,500 people per shift work at the construction site (the work does not stop and goes on 24/7 in several shifts per day), and they come from a variety of nationalities. The team of Russian specialists is complemented by Italians, Germans, Koreans, Serbs, Uzbeks and Tajiks. True, signs everywhere are in only three languages: Russian, English and Turkish.
About the structural features
The Lakhta Center tower rotates 90 degrees around its axis. Each new floor slab rotates 0.82 degrees relative to the axis of the building. This creates the effect of twisting the building to the top.
About getting into the Guinness Book of Records
The concreting of the bottom slab of the box-shaped foundation of the Lakhta Center tower is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest continuous pour of concrete in the world. In 49 hours without stopping, 19,624 m³ of concrete was poured, which exceeded the previous world record by 3,000 m³.
About the foundation
To build the complex, about 400,000 m³ of concrete will be needed.
About glazing
The glazing area of the complex will be 130,000 m², including the tower - 72,500 sq. m². The weight of one glass unit of the facade is 740 kg. Cold-formed glass technology is used in the construction of skyscrapers - there are only two such buildings in Russia so far. The first such building was the Evolution Tower in Moscow City, and the second was the headquarters of the St. Petersburg Bank.
Before using glass in construction, you need to ensure its strength. Therefore, facade fragments are tested for tightness when exposed to rain and strong winds. On a specially erected model, glass is subjected to severe torture by spraying water on it using airplane propellers - thus simulating a strong storm, so familiar to residents of St. Petersburg in the fall (and this year - in the summer).
About elevators
The high-rise building will use 38 elevators: two-level high-speed passenger elevators and administrative and utility elevators. The vertical transport strategy is designed to keep rush hour wait times under 30 seconds, with some groups having wait times as low as 15 seconds. Elevator speed is from 2.5 to 8 m/s. In total, the complex will use 100 high-speed elevators. They will be able to simultaneously transport 1280 people. This is 268 people more than the 20 Sapsan carriages can accommodate.
About the area of the complex
About restaurants
About the proximity of the city center
About ecology
First of all, the environmental friendliness of the complex will be achieved by reducing energy consumption in the area. Due to the “intelligent facade” of the high-rise dominant of the Lakhta Center, heating and air conditioning costs will be reduced by at least 40%.
About the planetarium
About the weight of Lakhta Center
Construction of Lakhta Center.
There was an interesting report on the website https://aslan.livejournal.com/ about how the tallest skyscraper in Europe was built.
For the lazy, video of the construction of the Lakhta Center:
After the foundation was ready, the zero cycle was completed and the tower began to grow upward.
The construction scheme for our skyscraper is as follows: first, a reinforced concrete core is built, then it is gradually overgrown with walls and ceilings. The core gives stability to the tower structure, and inside it there are communications, 34 elevators, technical rooms and security areas.
By the way, the core of the Lakhta Center has the highest degree of fire protection REI240 - the ability to withstand fire for 4 hours without changing the properties of concrete and steel.
Construction at the site is ongoing 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in three shifts. Each shift employs 4 thousand people.
This is what the first 16 floors of the tower look like, which are assembled from 22,000 elements connected by 200,000 bolts.
A few months later, the core of the tower grew into floors and rose even higher. Nearby you can see the MFZ building that has grown up during this time, which consists of two parts united by a common roof.
May 2016.
Construction stage in February 2017. On the left is a diagram of the tower.
If the core gives the tower vertical rigidity, then the outrigger floors are responsible for the horizontal rigidity, thanks to which the stability of the tower will remain even at a distance of 30% supporting structures. The skyscraper will have 4 pairs of outrigger floors every 70 m along the entire height of the building.
This is what they look like from the inside. Here you can see that the metal structures are covered with high-strength concrete. 
And these are the floor plans, starting from the bottom and ending with the top. The peculiarity of the Lakhta Center tower is that the edges of the pentagonal building twist upward, giving it a characteristic architectural volume.
This is what Lakhta Center looked like in the spring of 2017.
In this collage you can see how the Lakhta Center tower grew from September 2015 to April 2017.
And this is a recent photo from construction, which I took in early August. 
I went up to the 76th floor. The cranes are attached to the tower core on several floors. A little later I will show you what it looks like. There are 4 cranes at the very top, and there are 16 of them in total at the construction site. 
These are the largest luffing jib cranes produced by Liebherr. The range of their arrows is 45, 50 and 60 meters. The maximum load capacity is 64 tons, the speed of cargo movement is 176 meters per minute. 
Well, now let's go to the construction site. 
Since Turkish contractors and many foreign workers work here, warning signs are duplicated in Turkish and English. 
MFZ building. 
Up close, the tower looks very impressive. 
The elevators were installed in March 2017. You see the blue doors - they are behind them. 
Here, each elevator has its own elevator operator. After construction is completed, the elevator doors will look familiar, but during construction, everything looks like this. Between the elevators there are transfer nodes from the lower zone to the middle one, and from the middle zone to the upper one. A special elevator will also be installed, which will transport passengers to the observation deck without transfers. 
The walls are covered with plywood so as not to accidentally damage them. When you go from the first floor to the upper level it is almost always full. This is a very fast elevator, it took us only 40 seconds to get to the top floor. 
A temporary elevator that goes from the middle levels to the upper ones looks simpler. It will be replaced upon completion of construction. 
A little interesting information about the Lakhta Center elevators.
And this is a view of St. Petersburg and the surrounding area from the 76th floor. There is no glass here yet. 
On this floor, the cranes are attached to the tower's composite reinforced concrete columns, which have steel cores in the shape of a Maltese cross at the base to give them rigidity. 
These cores are located at the base of the columns.
The taps are also attached to the core. This way they can withstand the strong gusts of wind that are common at this altitude. 
From here you can clearly see the surrounding areas of St. Petersburg. 
Yacht Club. 
Elite area. 
Less elite area. 
Thermal power plant. 
The construction of the tower will require more than 22,000 tons of metal structures - 189,000 different parts, of which only two are identical. This happened because the tower twists, and each overlap differs from the next by 0.82 degrees. Another 2,000 tons will go towards the spire, which will be 90 meters high. The spire will contain various equipment. Metal structures for the Lakhta Center are manufactured at twelve factories, ten of which are Russian. 
By the way, the observation deck will be located higher, on the 86th floor, at an altitude of 360 m and will be the highest in Europe.
View in the other direction. 
The building is closer to the skyscraper. 
Although I don’t really like heights, and I was a meter away from the place where the glass had not yet been installed, it was not scary at all, rather the opposite. There are more than 300 meters of height here. 
But I would not at all want to be in the place of these workers, despite the breathtaking views. 
The main thing when working is not to forget about safety precautions. 
On Instagram "how it's made"
a question was asked about increasing the height of cranes, I answered it above, but I want to add about the work of crane operators. The crane operators travel to the 55th floor on the elevator that you have already seen. From there, they go along the stairs connecting the tower and the crane to the crane mast, then along the stairs inside the crane they get to the cabin. 
The crane operator cannot go down one more time. They even have lunch in their cabin, where it is delivered from the ground. 
New “Passenger Port of St. Petersburg”, for cruise and ferry ships. 
We went down several floors. Here they work on these mini cranes. 
And these are fastenings for double-glazed windows. Unlike conventional high-rise buildings, in Lakhta Center the double-glazed windows are hung on these brackets, and are not rigidly attached to the supporting frame of the building. The weight of one double-glazed window is about 740 kg. I will tell you about the features of the glass facade below. 
Floors below the 70th floor are glazed. 
There is no glass on the left yet, there is already glass on the right. 
We went down even lower and found ourselves on the outrigger floor. They, as I wrote above, give horizontal rigidity to the skyscraper. 
The walls of these floors are much more massive than those on ordinary floors. Outrigger levels also serve as technical floors.
On some floors there are water bottles and disposable cups. 
And now a little about the glass facade of the Lakhta Center. In order to glaze a skyscraper, it was necessary not to use simple flat glass, but curved glass, due to the spiral shape of the building. The German manufacturer that made glass for the tower specifically opened a plant in the Leningrad region in order not to transport from Germany and to facilitate logistics. 
The glass was bent in a cold way, which does not impair its characteristics in any way. With this method, the glass was deformed along the plane up to 4 cm at one angle. A laminated package measuring 2.8 m x 4.2 m is placed in an aluminum frame lying in a horizontal position, and under its own weight the glass unit is deformed, bending to the shape of the frame. The weight of the glass unit is about 740 kg.
Most of the double-glazed windows are slightly different from each other, and therefore each double-glazed window has its own place. 
The glass was made using a multilayer formula: 8mm glass + 1.5mm film + 8mm glass + 16mm argon + 8mm glass, for a total of 4.15 cm in thickness. The inner layer of glass is tempered, which is why the glass does not produce large and sharp fragments in case of damage. 
The glazing area of the Lakhta Center tower is 72,500 m². The weight of the glass part of the facade is about 13 thousand tons. 
A special feature of the outer layer of glass is its thermoreflective properties. To protect against excess solar radiation, a special coating is applied to the glass, which gives the glass surface of the tower a cool gray-blue tint.
Thanks to spraying and the fact that the glass on the facades is “coated”, i.e. With the minimum possible content of “yellowing” iron oxide, the tower looks different in different lighting conditions. Shades depend on lighting. During the day, when the sun is bright and the sky is reflected, the glass is blue; in cloudy weather, it is gray and bronze. 
Heated glass is provided for the upper floors of the skyscraper, which will prevent icing. 
To clean the façade of the Lakhta Center from dirt or to replace damaged glass, use a special lift. There are grooves in the ribs of the tower between the facade panels, and in the cradle-lift itself there are clamps with rods that are fixed in the grooves of the facade. This fastening system allows you to completely eliminate the rocking of the cradle at height. 
And in this place the tower hall will be located. 
These are already underground floors, the future parking of a skyscraper. 
There are generators in one of the rooms. 
Water supply system. 
A small infographic on the topic of water supply at Lakhta Center.
The technical floors are almost ready. 
Particularly worth mentioning is the BIM - Building Information Modeling program. This is a construction information model of a building, which specifies the physical and functional characteristics of the building - geometry, spatial relationships, geographical location, material properties, etc. BIM works at all stages: from concept creation to construction and operation of the facility.
When you change any one of the parameters during design or construction, BIM automatically changes the remaining parameters and objects associated with the object, up to drawings, visualizations, specifications and schedule.
Thus, the BIM model is a single source of information about the object for all construction participants - customers, designers and contractors. In addition, projects created using BIM guarantee high speed, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of construction. And the cost of constructing a building when using BIM is reduced by 20-30%. In this case, the buildings turn out exactly as they were originally imagined by the architect and the customer.
And this is the Multifunctional Building (MFB), view from the inside. It consists of two blocks. The building is of different heights - the difference is from 22 to 85 meters. Maximum high point in the southern building it is distant from the tower, and in the northern one it is directed towards the tower and the city. 
There will be a sports complex, a fitness center, health and relaxation centers, a children's scientific and educational center "World of Science", an exploratorium with interactive exhibits, a transforming hall with a capacity of 500 people and an open amphitheater for viewing water shows with a capacity of up to 2000 people.
A small infographic.
At this place there will be a planetarium in the form of a ball with a diameter of 16 meters. 
The MFZ will have a glass roof. 
From here you can clearly see the bay. 
The Lakhta Center skyscraper rose 35 floors (147 meters) and set a new record among all buildings in St. Petersburg.
There is one building higher - the TV tower, but that doesn't count. In addition, in 2017 the building will be 2 times higher, and by 2018 the height of the skyscraper will be 462 meters. It will be taller than the Federation Tower in the Moscow City business center in the capital and will become the tallest building in Europe.
Until now, the city record belonged to the Leader Tower, which glows in the Moscow district, which, by the way, is the tallest building in the world in northern latitudes. Of the historical buildings, the leader is the Peter and Paul Cathedral with its 122 and a half meters, conceived as the main dominant feature of the city. But technology is stronger.
Let us recall that the construction of the Gazprom headquarters was accompanied by battles between city defenders and the authorities, because initially its construction was planned not in Lakhta on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, but in Malaya Okhta on the right bank of the Neva. The authorities believed that this would become a new symbol of the Northern capital, and residents were against the tower almost in the center. Now people and authorities have agreed. It is planned that the “mega-structure” will attract financial tycoons from all over the world. It has already been included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest foundation in the world. It was flooded non-stop for 49 hours. Lakhta Center today 
Lakhta Center as planned in 2018 
Record-breaking foundation of Lakhta Center 
Construction plan 
Internal view of Lakhta Center according to plan 
The tallest building in the northern latitudes in the world is the Leader Tower on the square. Constitution 
The architectural dominant of the Northern capital until 1962 (that year the TV tower was built)
“Lakhta Center” is a skyscraper being built on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, in a picturesque location on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the future headquarters of the “national curse of the heritage”, whose dreams come true - Gazprom.
1. The approximate height of the skyscraper is 462 meters (87 floors). G The general construction contractor is Renaissance Construction.
The complex will consist of:
Office spacesAimut 130 thousand sq.m., 43% of total area complex.
Medical center parea - 2.5 thousand m². Functionality - diagnostic and treatment departments.
Sports complex parea - 4.6 thousand m². Functionality - gyms, fitness center, health and relaxation centers.
Children's Scientific and Educational Center "World of Science"area - 7 thousand m². The concept of the center was developed jointly with specialists from the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) and is based on the principle: “Tell me and I will forget, show me and maybe I will remember, let me participate and I will understand.” The center will be located in the MFZ. In the South building there is an exploratorium with interactive exhibits designed for different age groups. In the Northern building there is a scientific center with laboratories and lecture halls. The blocks will be connected to each other by a bridge - from entertaining activities to a serious and in-depth immersion in the world of science and technology. After opening, the exploratorium at Lakhta Center will be included in ECSITE - European Community scientific centers and museums.
Planetarium in the shape of a ballcapacity up to 140 people.
Multifunctional hall - transformable, with a capacity of 494 people. The transformability of the hall will make it possible to set different heights of walls and seats, remove seats, remove entire rows of seats, making this place more spacious (Executive Director of Okhta ODC Alexander Bobkov).
Panoramic two-level restaurant with a rotating platform, located on the 74th-76th floors of the tower, at an altitude of 330 m.
The highest observation deck in Europe. Located from the 83rd to 86th floors of the Lakhta Center, at an altitude of 357 m. The telescopes will be equipped with an interactive map of St. Petersburg, which will allow visitors to learn about attractions at the time of observation. Visiting the observation deck will be possible without prior registration or passes.
Permanent and temporary exhibitions will be located in the southern part of the MFZ. The area of the exhibition areas will be 1,500 m², the ceiling height will be 12 meters, which will allow oversized exhibits to be placed there. In the northern square of the complex there will be open space for art objects, sculptures and installations.
Restaurants and cafes will be located on five levels of the MFZ. Total seats— 1500.
Outdoor amphitheater for watching water shows incapacity - up to 2 thousand people. The area of the open stage will be 1495 m². The area of the open stage will be 1495 m². City events are planned.
Green zone and pedestrian bridge connecting Lakhta Center with the Park of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg.
The covered pedestrian bridge between the park and the public and business complex will become part of a new pedestrian route - the city embankment along the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, connected by a bridge across the Lakhtinskaya harbor with the promenade and amphitheater at the Lakhta Center.
2. At the time of preparation of the report, work was carried out on the 83rd floor, which is a height of over 348 meters. 
3. Less than 30 meters remain before the title of the tallest building in Europe (Federation (eastern tower) 374 m).
4. On the sides of the high-rise dominant there will be two buildings, which will be built with a height difference from 22 to 85 m.
The highest point of the southern building will be far from the tower, while that of the northern one will be on the contrary, directed towards the tower and the city.
5. The creators of the future landmark of the city and the tallest building in Europe.
6. Every minute they deliver to the construction site new batch workers and take away the previous shift.
7. Inspections by the Federal Migration Service of the general construction contractor, Renaissance Construction, are carried out quite often and there are no illegal immigrants at the construction site. Work on the project is carried out around the clock. Hard workers - about 3.5 thousand people.
8. The Lakhta Center tower consists of 189 thousand metal structures and floor beams, of which only 2 are identical. This uniqueness of the components is due to the fact that the building twists, and each floor differs from the next by 3 degrees.
9. The glazing area of the complex will be 130 thousand m², including the tower - 77 thousand m². The weight of one glass unit of the facade is 740 kg.
10. Opposite the Lakhta Center, the Lakhta Plaza apartments are being built. The architecture is too secondary for such a loud name, and even on the lands of the 300th Anniversary Park.
12. We go to the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. 
14. It just so happens that the main modern dominants of the city are concentrated in one place: the new stadium "St. Petersburg Arena", the WHSD with a beautiful cable-stayed bridge and the Lakhta Center. The Primorsky district and its residents are lucky with their location. 
15. A rare sunny and warm day. 
16. I suggest you look at the Yacht Bridge. 
17. Yachtny Bridge is a pedestrian bridge in St. Petersburg between Krestovsky Island and the Park of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg.Commissioned on May 27, 2017.
18. It offers gorgeous sea views. 
19. View of the alluvial territories of Krestovsky and Vasilyevsky Islands, the construction site of the Novokrestovskaya station complex and the sea passenger port "Marine Facade".
21. The length of the bridge with the approach part is 1 km; wwidth of the roadway - 9 m (2 lanes of 4.5 m each); Pbridge navigation span - 16 m.
25. The entire alluvial territory of the western part of Krestovsky Island is being turned into parking lots for the stadium, I hope that you will have enough imagination to plant trees. I remember how they promised to create a green walking area here with beautiful views of the bay and Lakhta Center.
29. Stadium! The fact that the stadium bowl is oval and the roof is round does not create the most presentable angles.
I recommend taking a look at my previous report on the construction of the Lakhta Center, especially since it’s been a while since its release. whole year!!!
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