with a twist,
it is the Lakhta Centre, situated nine miles
from the centre of St Petersburg on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, the
400,000 square metres of the Lakhta Centre complex also includes a
24-metre-tall entrance archway, a separate boomerang-shaped multi-storey
building, and a covered car park, two
thirds of the office space at the Lakhta Centre will be occupied by Gazprom's
new headquarters, the company is the largest supplier of natural gas
to Europe and Turkey, the building will employe 8,000 workers on the site, a third
of the complex will be given over to public spaces, including a science and
education centre, a spherical planetarium, a concert hall, amphitheatre and
several squares,
British
architect Tony Kettle designed the tower during his tenure at RMJM, before handing the project over to
Russian architects Gorproject to
complete, tapering
to a point, the spire has a 90 degree twist from
foundation to tip, making it the most extreme twist on a tower after the Shanghai Tower's 120 degree twist,
piles were
driven 82 metres deep into the city's soft ground in order to anchor the
supertall tower and provide stable foundations, wind speeds
at an elevation of 400 metres in St Petersburg can reach 87 miles per an hour,
necessitating a specialised structural system to resist the strong winds, its smooth
glass facade is formed of 16,500 pieces of curved glass, with a system
of automatic shutters and valves to make it energy efficient, energy
recuperating elevators, a vacuum waste disposal system and cold accumulators
are some of the other technologies employed by the tower to make it more
sustainable, a publicly
accessible observation deck will be located at the 360-metre point, a planned
restaurant will be Europe's highest panoramic restaurant, photographs
by Viktor Sukharukov and Slava Korolev, would we like to go there? Well yes for the
view and no for the fear of heights!
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