«Moydodyr» for the Plaza

St. Petersburg is famous for its rich architectural heritage. In this unique museum city contains the structures by great architects of the past. But times they are changing, and today in the Northern Capital a lot of futureoriented projects meeting the challenges of the new millennium are underway. Some people are reluctant to accept the reality, but it is a fact of life. One of such developments is nearly completed St. Petersburg Plaza business center facing Malookhtinsky Avenue. However, to keep the face of this brand new complex presentable the cladding should look stainless. We are going to make clear the way it can be achieved.

St. Petersburg Plaza is today the largest downtown scheme claiming to be to become one of its icons. The complex consists of three buildings: the landmark 21-storey Bank Saint Petersburg headquarters and two nine-storey Class A office buildings. The total site area of structures sitting over common stylobate is more than 100,000 square meters. As part of this project the adjacent area belonging to several investors was also being developed.

This work is an integral part of the city planning concept as of 2007 by the Eugeny Gerasimov’s studio together with the Sergey Tchoban’s firm. The office buildings overlooking the Neva riverfront form the skyline of multifunctional complex with comparable scale of separate structures, but deliberately different facades, designed by a team of German and Russian architects: Manfred Orthner, Eugeny Gerasimov, Christopher Langhof, Sergey Tchoban.

Now, the dominating tower of Bank Saint Petersburg is 95% glazed, whilst the interior is 25% finished. The nine-storied blocks are passing approximately same phase. And once the buildings are nearly completed, it is time to decide how to keep their exteriors clean. The specialized maintenance units (BMUs), which are now widely used in the U.S. and the E. U., have been installed for such a purpose. In St. Petersburg, such systems are also well-reputed among the developers.

Notwithstanding the local conservatism, the city remains the incomegenerating region gradually deploying commercial construction industry, which would, of course, take chance of using advanced technologies, including that aimed at preservation of the initial looks of buildings. Now, almost all commercial real estate designs for Petersburg presume the built-in BMUs from the very beginning.

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