What a Woman Wants, Wants…
It is generally admitted that construction is a very demanding process, requiring considerable mental, emotional, and most importantly physical strains. In conventional belief - it is not a business for woman. But there are exceptions, as in the team of the top execs of the Lakhta Center, where women occupy key posts: General Director, Construction Director, Development Director, Head of the Design Department ... And these are only those few with whom we are personally acquainted. This cannot but cause admiration. We publish Tall Buildings magazine for more than ten years, and in the intervening years we covered construction of many skyscrapers in different countries of the world, but for the first time faced with the situation that construction works of such a complex project led by the female persuasion. And they do it very successfully and can even be said exquisitely. Perhaps, because Lakhta itself has a feminine name, and women will always find a common language. Not surprisingly that the tower height has already crossed 80 floors - the northern beauty perfectly visible from afar fascinate not only by its impressive dimensions, but also graceful shapes. The new symbol of St. Petersburg finds its face, and it looks like it’s female.
Lakhta Center is a mixed-use social and business development with a 462-meter high skyscraper as its centerpiece. An elegant twisted tower, piercing the Northern Capital sky with its spire, will become the tallest building not only in Russia, but throughout Europe. The total area of the Lakhta Center buildings and facilities will be 400,000 m2. The construction of the immense project is planned to be completed in 2018. The project is unique not only from the perspective of its balanced aesthetics of dynamic forms, but also in terms of engineering, technical and design solutions implemented by best-qualified experts from Russia and abroad. The high-rise architectural ensemble is built using over a hundred of latest technologies, thanks to which the complex will be able to claim leadership in the field of safety, sustainability and power management. We have spoken with Elena Vladimirovna Morozova, Lakhta Center Construction Director to learn the implementation details of this unique edifice and many other things.
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Text by Svetlana Sokolova