OKO | MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER | SHANGHAI, CHINA

ARCHITECTURE

Size: 445,000m2

Completion: 2015

Features: 2 Towers, Residential / Hotel, 85 Stories, 354 Meters  |  Office 45 Stories, 245 Meters

This project is part of the thriving Moscow City, a mixed-use district centrally located within the sprawling Russian metropolis and loosely based on London’s Canary Wharf and Paris’s La Défense. The two skyscrapers, North Tower and South Tower, are among the tallest skyscrapers in Russia, with the latter being the taller of the two. Rising 354 m, the 85-story South Tower, also known as the OKO Apartment Tower, was the tallest building in Russia and Europe when constructed, until it was surpassed by Federation Tower a few months later. The 49-story North Tower, also known as the OKO Office Tower, is 245 m tall and the 11th tallest building in Russia. The complex also has a large car park, rising 12 stories with a height of 44 m. The massive development includes luxury residences, premium office space, a four-star hotel, parking, and extensive green space. The elegant towers gradually taper away from each other as they stretch upward, with glass curtain walls that possess varying degrees of translucency, clarity, and reflectivity. A new private road bisects the site, creating a pedestrian promenade with access to both towers. Landscaped paths and plazas knit together the buildings, shops, and restaurants. A continuous strip of parkland and plazas along the project’s southern edge provides a much-needed amenity for the increasingly high-density zone. The greenway — the only one in Moscow City — offers generous drop-off areas for the residential tower and hotel, as well as pocket groves of indigenous trees and open lawns for public use.

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