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___________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Europe on the Up, Up, Up – The Tallest Skyscrapers Currently Under Construction Hamburg, May 6, 2014 – Nowhere in Europe are taller buildings going up than in Russia. St. Petersburg is currently witnessing the construction of the continent’s future tallest skyscraper, Lakhta Center. At a height of 463 meters, the tapering, pointed supertall will surpass the current record-holder, Moscow’s Mercury City, by no fewer than 124 meters. Emporis (www.emporis.com ), the international provider of building data, has compiled a list of the ten tallest skyscrapers currently under construction in Europe. In addition to Lakhta Center, the list contains a further six projects from Russia, all of whose construction sites are located in Moscow. Some way behind the Lakhta Center, with a future height of 361 meters, lies Vostok (Federation Tower East), the second-placed skyscraper in the ranking, closely followed by the OKO Apartment Tower, which will reach 352 meters into the skies. Both of these major projects are being built in Moscow, as are a further four entries in the list. Two of them are not far off completion – Eurasia Tower, which is set to come in at just over 300 meters and will offer exclusive apartments on its highest floors, and Evolution Tower, 255 meters tall and particularly conspicuous for its shape, which twists upward in a spiral. Due to these numerous major projects, Moscow is set to continue as Europe’s skyscraper capital into the future. Already today, five of the continent’s ten tallest completed skyscrapers are located in the city, including the current European front-runner Mercury City with its record height of 339 meters. In as little as two years, following the projected completion of Vostok (Federation Tower East), Moscow will dominate the top ten of the tallest skyscrapers in Europe, with no fewer than seven buildings. Alongside Moscow, the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul is increasingly establishing itself as a center of skyscraper construction. The only city in the top ten not in Russia, Istanbul has no fewer than three buildings in the list. In addition to the two 284-meter-tall Skyland Towers, the city also has The Metropol Tower, at 250 meters the tenth-placed building, in the starting blocks. The three towers are due to grace the skyline of the city on the Bosphorus from 2016 onward. However, even if the Lakhta Center is set to approach the 500-meter mark, European skyscraper construction still has some distance to go to catch up with its Asian paradigms in terms of height. By way of comparison, the world’s tallest building, the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is as tall as Lakhta Center and Vostok (Federation Tower East) combined – and the tallest building currently under construction anywhere in the world, Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, will, with its projected height of a kilometer, be more than twice as tall as the future European record-holder.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Europe on the Up, Up, Up – The Tallest Skyscrapers Currently Under Construction Hamburg, May 6, 2014 – Nowhere in Europe are taller buildings going up than in Russia. St. Petersburg is currently witnessing the construction of the continent’s future tallest skyscraper, Lakhta Center. At a height of 463 meters, the tapering, pointed supertall will surpass the current record-holder, Moscow’s Mercury City, by no fewer than 124 meters. Emporis (www.emporis.com), the international provider of building data, has compiled a list of the ten tallest skyscrapers currently under construction in Europe. In addition to Lakhta Center, the list contains a further six projects from Russia, all of whose construction sites are located in Moscow. Some way behind the Lakhta Center, with a future height of 361 meters, lies Vostok (Federation Tower East), the second-placed skyscraper in the ranking, closely followed by the OKO Apartment Tower, which will reach 352 meters into the skies. Both of these major projects are being built in Moscow, as are a further four entries in the list. Two of them are not far off completion – Eurasia Tower, which is set to come in at just over 300 meters and will offer exclusive apartments on its highest floors, and Evolution Tower, 255 meters tall and particularly conspicuous for its shape, which twists upward in a spiral.
Due to these numerous major projects, Moscow is set to continue as Europe’s skyscraper capital into the future. Already today, five of the continent’s ten tallest completed skyscrapers are located in the city, including the current European front-runner Mercury City with its record height of 339 meters. In as little as two years, following the projected completion of Vostok (Federation Tower East), Moscow will dominate the top ten of the tallest skyscrapers in Europe, with no fewer than seven buildings. Alongside Moscow, the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul is increasingly establishing itself as a center of skyscraper construction. The only city in the top ten not in Russia, Istanbul has no fewer than three buildings in the list. In addition to the two 284-meter-tall Skyland Towers, the city also has The Metropol Tower, at 250 meters the tenth-placed building, in the starting blocks. The three towers are due to grace the skyline of the city on the Bosphorus from 2016 onward. However, even if the Lakhta Center is set to approach the 500-meter mark, European skyscraper construction still has some distance to go to catch up with its Asian paradigms in terms of height. By way of comparison, the world’s tallest building, the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is as tall as Lakhta Center and Vostok (Federation Tower East) combined – and the tallest building currently under construction anywhere in the world, Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, will, with its projected height of a kilometer, be more than twice as tall as the future European record-holder.
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The tallest skyscrapers under construction in Europe
# Building Name City, Country Height Floors Architect Year
1. Lakhta Center St. Petersburg, Russia 463 m 86 RMJM/Kettle Collective, Gorproject 2018
2. Vostok Moscow, Russia 361 m 94 Nps+partner, Schweger + Partner 2016
3. OKO Apartment Tower Moscow, Russia 352 m 85 SOM 2015
4. Eurasia Tower Moscow, Russia 309 m 67 SHCA, Summa International 2014
5. ST Tower 1 Moscow, Russia 288 m 65 HOK, Speech 2015
~ ST Tower 2 Moscow, Russia 288 m 60 HOK, Speech 2015
7. Skyland Office Tower Istanbul, Turkey 284 m 46 Broadway Malyan 2016
~ Skyland Residence Tower Istanbul, Turkey 284 m 46 Broadway Malyan 2016
9. Evolution Tower Moscow, Russia 255 m 53 RMJM/Kettle Collective, Karen Forbes 2014
10. The Metropol Tower Istanbul, Turkey 250 m 58 RMJM, Dome + Partners 2016
Source: www.emporis.com
