Gazprom City dominant in St. Petersburg can become "corn"

On Friday, the results of the competition of architectural projects for the construction of the Gazprom administrative center in St. Petersburg, the so-called Gazprom-City complex, should be summed up. However, according to Fontanka.ru , Gazprom Neft Invest has already chosen the best project of a 300-meter skyscraper. The most votes were given to the project of the English architectural bureau RMGM London Limited, outwardly more reminiscent of a corn cob.

It is he who will be the dominant of the complex, unless Petersburgers are not able to convince the authorities of the inappropriateness of the skyscraper in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the city on the embankment of the Okhta River, the "News Time" indicates.

The authors of the project from RMGM London Limited, who designed a 400-meter tower in Dubai, came up with a spiral structure 320 meters high, which will consist of many faces, and this will change during the day depending on the lighting. The pentagonal foundation of this project is proposed to accurately fit into the historical foundation of the now destroyed by the Niensshantz fortress.

At the same time, Smolny has repeatedly stated that the architects were given the task only to come up with a concept and a sketch. At the same time, they got the opportunity to earn a fee, according to some reports - several hundred thousand dollars for each project. More than six Gazprom City authors were not required. The fate of this competition will be exactly the same as it was with the competition of architectural projects to develop the concept of the Baltic Pearl quarter for the Chinese. What will actually build Gazprom on the site of the dilapidated shops of Petrozavod and whether anything will build anything at all - no one can say for sure now, says Fontanka.ru.

“This competition is a competition of sketches, ideas, concepts of concepts, and we do not provide anyone with the right to design and construction,” said vice -governor Alexander Vakhmistrov.

Recall that in the last days before summing up the results of the competition for the best project of the Gazprom Tower, the public showed unprecedented activity. In St. Petersburg, protests were held, the resistances were stuck in the houses of Okhintsy with leaflets with calls not to allow construction, and unknown people even set fire to the Gazprom Neft corporate banner on the facade of Petrozavod. The riot against Gazprom City rolled up to Moscow. The other day, in the capital, the vice-president of the Union of Architects of Russia, Yuri Odobnov, called the possibility of building the tower "sacrilege". And Galina Malanicheva, a member of the Public Chamber on the preservation of cultural and spiritual heritage, warned that this would be a direct threat of exclusion of St. Petersburg from the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.

The blow to Gazprom’s plans and deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg gathered, sending General Prosecutor General Yuri Chaik a request demanding an investigation, how reasonable is the desire of the St. Petersburg authorities to spend 60 billion rubles from the city budget for the construction of facilities for Gazprom.