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Mr. Michael Amosov, Member of Yabloko Political Committee, proposed not to build a separate metro communication to the future Lakhta Center but to rehabilitate the existing railway tracks.

 

As large European cities grow and develop, green technologies start playing a more and more vital role in their life. Green construction, green transport, green tourism. The main objective of this trend is both improving an ecologic situation in large cities and creating comfortable and harmonious urban environment of an absolutely new quality.

 

Dubai-based Arabtec Holding awarded a contract with Gazprom for the construction of the first stage of a 463m skyscraper in Petersburg, the contract cost is 95 million euro, the company advised in the materials for investors at Dubai Stock Exchange.

 

Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC will proceed cooperating with Arabtec Construction. The Arab company involved in the construction of a well-known Burj Dubai Tower and previous Okhta Center General Contractor will also be involved in the part of enabling works under Lakhta Center project. It was advised by Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Executive Director Alexander Bobkov.

 

The functional structure of Lakhta Center Project has been extensively revised as compared to the original project, Okhta Center Project. The Client has taken a decision to considerably increase the share of the public functions. The new site makes it possible to unfold designers’ imagination of. Julia Gulyak, Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Head of Design Department is telling us in which way.

On the 31st August in the administration of Primorsky district public hearings were held in respect of the land use plan of the area restricted by a designed street, a designed passageway, Primorsky avenue, the coastline of Lakhta Bay, the coastline of Neva Bay.

 

A construction permit for the first phase of social and business district “Lakhta Center” construction, including high-rise building and adjacent stylobate, is obtained.

 

The office space in the planned Lakhta Centre is to be decreased compared with previous designs for the building. The Okhta Centre was mainly a business centre, but in the Lakhta Centre only 43% of the floor area will be allocated for offices, and about one third of the floor area will contain social and cultural facilities.

 

Lately, “green” ideology has gained the upper hand in the eternal conflict between the city’s need for as much space as possible for development, and the desire to be close to nature.

 

Avoiding publicity Gazrpom is promoting Lakhta Center Project in Primorsky district. This time Gazprom PR specialists managed to establish a positive image of a skyscraper and avoid the Okhta Center promotion errors. Even UNESCO does not regard Lakhta Center as a threat to the architectural environment.