A towering beacon of pink mirrored glass has overtaken the Shard to become the tallest building in Europe. Moscow's Mercury City tower, which topped out on Thursday, now rises to 339m, making it 29m taller than London's own crystalline pyramid.
The building joins a motley cluster in the emerging Moscow International Business Centre, a $12bn complex initiated by former mayor Yuri Luzhkov as a playground for rival oligarchs to demonstrate their penile might.
— guardian.co.uk
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Russian Post-modern? A backwards glance.
The forward-leaning angles recall Soviet constructivist monuments like Taltin's to the Third International. The overall progressive rthymn is right out of Ladovsky's beginning course on basic architectural design. Full circle. Who said that History repeats itself . ..twice?
The irony doen't have to be spelled out.
Thank god its so big. I might not have noticed how ugly it is.
the "Big pink..." really? from a Guardian photo caption.
yes, but everyone loves a good cock and bull story.
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