Mercury City Tower

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Mercury City Tower
Меркурий Cити Tауэр
View from Imperia Tower Moscow 04-2014 img12.jpg
General information
Status Complete
Type Commercial offices
Residential condominiums
Architectural style Structural Expressionism
Location Moscow International Business Center
Moscow, Russia
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Construction started 2009
Cost US$ 1 billion
Height
Roof 338.8 m (1,112 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 75
5 below ground
Floor area 180,160 m2 (1,939,200 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators 31
Design and construction
Architect M.M. Posokhin
Frank Williams and partners
G.L. Sirota
Developer LLC Rasen Stroy
Structural engineer Mosproject-2
Main contractor Rasen Construction
References
[1][2][3][4]

Mercury City Tower (Russian: Меркурий Сити Тауэр) is a 1109 feet tall skyscraper in Moscow and one of the tallest buildings in Europe.

Located in the Moscow International Business Center, construction started in 2009. The Mercury City Tower is a multipurpose building with housing, offices and shops.[5] The tower is located on plot 14 of the MIBC. The structure's height is 339 meters [6] above ground, with five underground floors. The building topped out at 338.8 m (1,112 ft) on 1 November 2012 and overtook The Shard in London as Europe's tallest building.[7]

Wireframe image of the tower

References

  1. Mercury City Tower at CTBUH Skyscraper Database
  2. Mercury City Tower at Emporis
  3. Mercury City Tower at SkyscraperPage
  4. Mercury City Tower at StructuraeLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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  7. Ilya Khrennikov, 'Moscow Mercury City Tops Shard as Europe’s Tallest Tower', Bloomberg, 1 November 2012.

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