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The historic city of St. Petersburg in Russia will soon be home to the tallest and supposedly 'greenest' tower in Europe. The UK-based architectural firm RMJM was given a go by the Russian gas giant to build the new Gazprom Neft headquarters in the former Russian capital. Inhabitat
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are you sure that this is not a Dubai project
Shame on you RMJM...........
interesting note about st petersburg is that the russian tzar who built it, I am an idiot for not remembering , built the city in what was marshland at all costs and more or less forced the issue of making it an urban location
so its pretty interesting that europes tallest will now be built there
Hi Jill! we have a supertall thread discussing such projects. I just linked the populararchitects birdfeeder project - thanks for finding that one...
when do you graduate or have you become a perpetual student?
isn't the "tallest and greenest" an oxymoron?
it's not an oxymoron, necessarily, because of the economies of scale achieved in services and greater surface area=greater opportunity for harvesting energy... but I wonder if it will work.
I also wonder if it will be empty... as metamechanic noted, the city didn't arise out of demand for real estate, it was forced into being so Russia could have a 'European' capitol.
I bet the state is building this project.
Peter the Great, duh..st petersburg
hey only about half a million serfs died building that burg comrade...
beautiful building! don't know how i feel about sticking it among the classical architecture of the city though.