Okhta center height building. An entire city will stretch under the Lakhta Center tower. About getting into the Guinness Book of Records

One of the tallest buildings in Russia and Europe - the modern skyscraper Lakhta Center - is located in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. Its construction began in 2012, the building was put into operation in 2018, and the opening of the Lakhta Center is scheduled for early 2020. In addition to Gazprom's headquarters, there will be offices, scientific and business centers, an amphitheater, a sports club and other infrastructure. The main highlight of the tower will be the observation deck, which offers a panoramic view of St. Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland. The cost of the Lakhta Center is estimated at 2.5 billion dollars.

Observation deck of Lakhta Center

The most anticipated object of the complex is the observation deck, which will be located at an altitude of 360 meters, on the top floor. It will be a panoramic site with a 360° viewing angle and telescopes for a detailed view. High-speed elevators will be available to lift visitors up. It is planned that the Lakhta Center observation deck will become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city.

Christmas tree

Despite the fact that the official opening of the skyscraper has not yet taken place, Lakhta Center is already taking part in the cultural life of the Northern capital. In honor of the New Year, on December 31, festive lighting was lit on the façade of the building, turning the tower into the world's tallest green Christmas tree.

Video of New Year's greetings:

Lakhta Center webcam

Currently, a webcam is installed at the observation deck level, which broadcasts a panorama of St. Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland in real time. You can see the popular attractions of the city - the park named after the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, the Gazprom Arena stadium, the Yacht Bridge, Elagin Island and other objects.

Floor plan and architecture

Due to widespread media coverage of the construction of this facility, many are interested in the question “how many floors are there in the Lakhta Center and what will be there?” According to the project, the tower has 87 floors, and the total area of ​​​​the premises is 400 thousand square meters. meters, of which 130 thousand square meters are designated for offices. meters. Almost 40 elevators are planned to be launched to move between floors. In addition to the main building, the complex includes two more buildings, which are located on the sides of the tower. Their height varies from 22 to 85 meters.

Lakhta Center Project

In addition to the observation deck and Gazprom headquarters, the complex will house the following facilities:

• Panoramic restaurant Lakhta Center. The halls will be located on the 75th and 76th floors (height about 320 meters). This will be a nice alternative viewing platform. Based on the results of selecting applicants to create a restaurant, the management company announced the winner at the beginning of 2019. They were famous Russian football players - the Berezutsky brothers, who proposed the concept of a restaurant of Russian cuisine, the basis of which would be Russian-made products and unique recipes from all over the country.
• Multifunctional hall - transformer and congress center. A unique feature of this hall is that, if necessary, it can be divided into two rooms. This is the first such facility in St. Petersburg. The seating arrangement and stage configuration can be changed to suit the format of the event. It is planned that the transforming hall will host concerts, performances, fashion shows and other events.
• Scientific and educational center. The main task of the scientific center will be to popularize science among the population. The center will be open to a wide audience, educational events will be held here - lectures, exhibitions. The exhibition area reaches 7000 square meters. meters.
• Medical Center. The Lakhta Center diagnostic and treatment complex is designed to provide services to residents of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. Equipped with the most modern equipment, the medical center will provide dental, therapeutic, surgical and other services.
• Sports complex. In Lakhta Center it is planned to create a large sports center with an area of ​​4600 sq. meters. There will be gyms, group exercise rooms, swimming pools, relaxation and wellness centers.
• Atrium, shopping areas, expositions. For office workers and visitors to the skyscraper there will be exhibition halls for art objects and works of art, a multimedia hall, as well as cafes, canteens and shops.
• Offices. The management company offers offices for rent ranging from 650 to 2100 sq. m. meters. Detailed information from the administration, contacts can be found on the official website of the Lakhta Center.

At the foot of the tower, on the territory overlooking the bay, it is planned to build amphitheater. Designed for 2,000 seats, the facility will be the first structure of this type in St. Petersburg. The amphitheater is oriented towards the sea; according to the architects' plan, the stage can be water or the coastline.

Architectural solution

Since the Lakhta Center building has an extreme height, during the development of the project and construction, much attention was paid to the stability and safety of the structure. The main tower has a central core made of reinforced concrete, within which the most important communications and security zones are located. The foundation of the skyscraper stands on 2080 piles, and the floors and columns are made of metal and concrete.

The architectural concept of Lakhta Center was developed by RMJM in 2011. As conceived by the authors, the outlines of the skyscraper fit perfectly into the landscape of St. Petersburg and form a harmonious combination with the spiers and domes of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

The glazing of the Lakhta Center is made without joints, which gives the building lightness - the smooth walls of the facade reflect water and clouds.

How to get to Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg

Metro near Lakhta Center

The nearest metro station “Begovaya” is within walking distance from the skyscraper. The walk will take about 20 minutes, but while the tower is not open, you can admire it from the territory of the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.

Route from the metro to Lakhta Center:

The authorities plan to build a new Lakhta metro station. The project is included in the metro development plan until 2025.

Ground transportation

Next to the Lakhta Center there is a public transport stop - “15th km Lakhta”. There are buses No. 101, 101a, 110, 211, 216 and minibuses No. 206, 210, 232, 305, 305a, 400, 405, 417, 425.

In addition, to travel around St. Petersburg, you can use applications from taxi services Uber, Gett, Yandex. Taxi, Maxim, Taxovichkof, etc.

Presentation of Lakhta Center: video tour

Night lighting of Lakhta Center: panorama-google

The continuous pouring of the foundation at the base of the Lakhta Center skyscraper, which is being built on the shores of the Gulf of Finland to replace the controversial Gazprom tower project, continued for more than two days, and this achievement will be included in the Guinness Book of Records. Despite the economic crisis, the construction of the 462-meter tower is going according to plan and should be completed in 2018, NTD reports.

A new Guinness record for continuous concreting was officially registered during the construction of the Lakhta Center skyscraper in St. Petersburg. Within 49 hours, 19,264 cubic meters of concrete were poured into the base of the tower's foundation. This is 3,000 cubic meters more than the previous record.

EVA NORROY, judge of the Guinness Book of Records: I have already seen measurements on construction sites before, I know the technical requirements. And what I saw now is fantastic! I can say that everything meets our standards and our rules.

Lakhta Center should grow to 462 meters. It is being built on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, where there are often strong winds. This will create additional stress on the building. In addition, during construction it is necessary to take into account the soil characteristics and the unusual twisted shape of the skyscraper. That's why such a large and durable slab was needed.

ELENA MOROZOVA, construction manager of Lakhta Center: The uniqueness of the tower lies in its structural complexity and, as I have already said, in the peculiarities of the location where it is being built. Firstly, it is the tallest building at this northern latitude in the world.

Construction of the skyscraper began last year and should be completed in 2018. Despite the economic crisis in the country, the Lakhta Center company intends to put the building into operation on schedule.

ALEXANDER BOBKOV, Director of JSC Multifunctional Complex Lakhta Center: It is impossible to deny that we are in society with all other subjects of the Russian economy. And we, of course, feel the changing situation on the market. But the deadlines for the implementation of the project remain prescriptive; we are obliged to open in 2018 - and the current stages are proceeding exclusively within the prescriptive deadlines.

The Lakhta Center project was developed instead of the unrealized Okhta Center project. This skyscraper was supposed to be built on the right bank of the Neva. This prospect caused indignation among St. Petersburg residents and criticism among specialists. They thought that the skyscraper would ruin the appearance of the city. The UNESCO organization also opposed the construction of the Okhta Center. As a result, the project was cancelled.

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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)

It’s hard to imagine beautiful St. Petersburg as a city of skyscrapers, but high-rise construction is rapidly breaking into the city of Petra. Its first “swallow” will soon be the majestic Lakhta Center. At the same time, the Leningrad Tower will not be an ordinary skyscraper, but the second tallest among similar Russian and European buildings, surpassing the “Federation” in “Moscow City” and second only to While the building is under construction, there is time to find out interesting details about it.

General idea of ​​the project

“Lakhta Center”, “Lakhta Center” (both spellings are correct) is a public and business complex currently under construction. Its scale explains the fact that the key object of the skyscraper will be the headquarters of the largest Russian corporation Gazprom. The location of the complex is Primorsky. Construction of the tower began in 2012. Its full completion is planned for the third quarter of 2018.

The maximum planned height of the Gazprom tower in St. Petersburg with antenna/spire is 462 m. The top level of the very last floor will be located 372 m above the ground. The weight of the structure with filling will be 670 thousand tons. The complex will include not only a tower, but also a multifunctional building, which will divide the atrium into northern and southern parts. The total area of ​​the future building will be 400 thousand m2. How many floors are there in the Gazprom tower in St. Petersburg? The final number will be 87. The building will be served by 102 elevators.

Tower construction progress

Let's touch on the key stages of the construction of the Gazprom tower in St. Petersburg:

• 2013 - a pit was dug for the building.
• 2014 - completion of work on the construction of the pit, start of driving piles.
• 2015 - completion of the so-called construction: production of a box foundation, reinforcement and concreting of minus floors.
• 2015-2016 - construction of the first 50 floors of the skyscraper and 7 floors of the MFZ.
• February 2017 - the 60th floor (260 m) was built.
• April 2017 - work on the construction of the 67th floor (300 m).
• May 10, 2017 - having reached 327.6 m and 78 floors, the skyscraper became the tallest building in the northern capital, “overtaking” the TV tower. The latter held this title for 55 years.

Concept of the Lakhta Center project

According to the project team, this tower, aimed at the sky like a rocket at the start, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, will form new standards of living for the city with its appearance and content:

• developed social infrastructure;
• modern offices that meet all global environmental requirements;
• comfortable public spaces;
• abundance of green areas;
• pedestrian and transport accessibility.

The main task of the so-called Gazprom tower in St. Petersburg is to rid the historical center of business and business activity, and at the same time the dominance of transport, moving the focus of this activity to the outskirts of the city. The skyscraper will not only help the second capital move to a polycentric development model, but also attract significant investment, create new high-paying jobs, and create all the conditions for business development.

Architectural solutions

St. Petersburg is a city of skylines, not high-rises. All of its historical high-rise buildings - St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter and Paul Cathedral - are central points around which independent and integral structures are built. Therefore, in order not to spoil the appearance of the city-museum, it was decided to build a skyscraper that would house the headquarters of the state concern Gazprom, on the coast of the Finnish bay, away from historical buildings.

The tower is intended to begin to form the “sea façade” of St. Petersburg. Its appearance does not at all conflict with the “face” of the city - the same theme of a lonely spire on the horizon, the desire to rise, the contours of buildings reminiscent of the outlines of ship hulls.

The shape of the Lakhta Center, as conceived by the architects, should visualize openness, lightness, freedom, the flow of spaces and the energy of the sea. They strive to give the complex the effect of weightlessness and organic unity with the surrounding city and nature. A special type of double-glazed windows will help with this, which will allow the building to change its color depending on the mood of the sky.

What will happen inside the complex

The popular name of Lakhta Center - Gazprom Tower - is not entirely correct. The design of the “filling” of the complex is striking in its versatility:

• Only 43% of the total area is planned to be allocated for office space.
• 2.5 thousand m2 will be occupied by a medical center.
• 7 thousand m2 is guaranteed to be provided to the children's scientific and educational center "World of Science", which will include lecture halls, laboratories, and an exploratorium.
• It is planned to open a planetarium in the building, in which 140 people will be able to simultaneously observe celestial bodies.
• It is planned to build a transforming multifunctional auditorium designed for almost 500 people.
• Floors 74-76 (330 m) are planned to be allocated for a two-story panoramic restaurant.
• At an altitude of 357 m above the ground, on the 83-86 floors there will be an observation deck equipped with powerful telescopes.
• The MFZ will allocate 1.5 thousand m2 for exhibition space.
• It is also planned to build an impressive amphitheater with 2,000 seats. Its stage, with an area of ​​almost 1.5 thousand m2, will host various water shows.
• Part of the complex will also be a covered pedestrian bridge that will connect the Lakhta Center space with the city’s 300th anniversary park.

Other characteristics

Let's get acquainted with the interesting technical and design features of the Gazprom tower in St. Petersburg:

• The skyscraper stands on 264 piles, each of which has a diameter of 2 m and a depth of 82 m.
• The reinforced concrete core is responsible for the stability of the tower.
• The horizontal rigidity of the skyscraper is achieved through outrigger floors - there will be 4 pairs of them in total. The outriggers will maintain the stability of the tower even if it loses 30% of its supporting structures.
• Cold-formed glass technology is responsible for the innovative three-dimensional curvature of the complex's facades.
• The lighting of the Lakhta Center is made up of light “pixels”. Their color will depend on the season of the year.
• The waste will be disposed of using an innovative waste removal system.
• It is planned to open a metro station next to the complex under the working name "Lakhta".

Finally, let's look at some interesting facts related to the St. Petersburg tower:

• The concreting of the bottom slab of the skyscraper's foundation was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest continuous pour of concrete in the world. It lasted 49 hours, during which 19,624 cubic meters of concrete were poured.
• 400 thousand cubic meters of concrete will be spent on the construction of the entire complex.
• The glass surface area of ​​the tower will be 77 thousand m2. The weight of each double-glazed window is more than 700 kg.
• In July 2016, the skyscraper became the tallest building in St. Petersburg. He was able to achieve this title in just 10 months.
• In August of the same year, Lakhta Center became the northernmost skyscraper in the world.

Surprisingly, Russia's tallest skyscraper will be located in St. Petersburg, the city of skylines. In addition to its height, the Lakhta Center project amazes with its multifunctionality, thoughtful concept and organic architectural design.

I was able to visit a variety of construction sites, from residential buildings to large-scale thermal and nuclear power plant projects, but I had never been to the construction of skyscrapers. I recently filled this gap in St. Petersburg, visiting the construction of the tallest skyscraper in Russia and Europe. In general, this skyscraper is considered the very best in many respects, but first things first.

Today we will see how the Lakhta Center is being built. Stock up on tea and cookies, because this report will be as long as a skyscraper).

Construction of the tower began in 2013 from scratch. First, construction and installation equipment was produced, then bored piles were installed, a box foundation was erected and work began on creating a pit, the excavation of which was completed in 2014.

The creation of the pit was preceded by the installation of a wall in the ground, 30 meters deep. It was needed to protect the future pit from collapse and groundwater. After this, the piles are driven in, and then the foundation pit is dug. Its depth was 21 meters.

I, like many others, had a question: how could a skyscraper be built in a swamp? In fact, the tower was not built on a swamp. Of course, the soil on the surface is not the hardest, but at a certain depth very dense and hard rocks begin to form.

Moraine deposits removed during drilling.

This laconic retelling of course does not convey the scale of the zero cycle, but the photos speak for themselves.

A total of 264 piles were installed in dense layers of soil, each 82 m deep and 2 m in diameter. A foundation was installed on them. The total load on the piles is 670,000 tons.

A small infographic for greater clarity.

This is how they made the reinforced frame for the piles that are located under the tower

Under the multifunctional building (MFB) and the arch, 848 piles with a diameter of 1.2 m were installed, and 968 piles with a diameter of 60 cm were installed under the stylobate (underground parking).

The box foundation consists of three densely reinforced slabs, the bottom one is 3.6 m thick. The diameter of the reinforcement is 32 mm, the reinforcement pitch is 16.5 cm, and 15 levels of grids are installed in the bottom slab.

Between the three slabs of the box-shaped foundation there will be underground floors of the skyscraper. There are also 10 radial walls running from the core to the outer perimeter. Their thickness is 2.5 m and height is 5.5 m.

The reinforced mesh, which will soon be filled with concrete, goes down 3.6 meters.

By the way, when concreting the lower slab of the tower’s foundation, on March 1, 2015, a record was set, which was 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.

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 if 30% of the supporting structures are removed. 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 a full house. 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 + 1.5 mm film + 8mm glass + 16mm argon + 8 mm 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 the 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, in which the physical and functional characteristics of the building are specified - geometry, spatial relationships, geographical location, properties of materials, 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. The highest point of the southern building is distant from the tower, while that of the northern one 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 outdoor 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.

This is what Lakhta Center will look like at the end of 2018. Construction is scheduled to be completed in the 3rd quarter of 2018.

Thanks to everyone who read to the end!
Thanks to the press service of the Lakhta Center for the invitation and interesting excursion!

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