ATRIUM
The Multifunctional Building with the Atrium is not inferior to the Tower in its complexity. The length of the building’s facade is 274 meters. The blocks are up to 85 meters in height. In its shape, the building resembles an ice ridge or a ship’s sail. More than 50 types of facade glazing are used in the building. Natural soft light comes through the polymer membrane roof.
The Atrium of the Multifunctional Building is the main area for the public spaces, educational, exhibition and concert ones. Some of them are already functioning, while others are being created at the moment. The public spaces are aimed at providing conditions for creative and intellectual development of the city residents and tourists.
The space ball soaring in the Atrium is a shell of the ultra-modern Planetarium. It features a whole range of hi-tech solutions, from the surround sound effect and hall transformation systems to the dome screen made of perforated, acoustically transparent aluminum sheet and astronomy simulation software for the visualization control.
ATRIUM’S FACADE
CITY P
INSTALLATION ART EXHIBITION
INSTALLATION ART EXHIBITION
The installation art exhibition is a unique blend of works by contemporary artists and photographers, sound design, video art, and street art, which form the multifaceted appearance of the great city.
The modern St. Petersburg is shown as a multi-layered space open for endless explications and infinite interpretations which are connected to the city’s rich culture and history.
The concept of the exhibition is explained in the introductory film which can be watched in the Lakhta Center Planetarium. A visit to the Planetarium is another opportunity to learn more about the Lakhta Center public spaces, as well as to check out the gift shop and take some impressive photos while standing on the connecting bridge at a height of 17 meters above the Lakhta Center Atrium.
All visitors of the City P exhibition are welcome to use the audio guide created on the basis of a curator’s tour.
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* Please note, the exhibition program does not include a visit to the Lakhta Center observation deck
PARALLEL
PROGRAM
OF THE EXHIBITION
PROGRAM
OF THE EXHIBITION
City π Happy Hours is an opportunity to visit the installation art exhibition on special conditions and become a guest at discussions, artistic meetings and curator’s tours.
- At four meetings titled “City π. Monologues about a Personal St. Petersburg” you will have a candid talk with famous St. Petersburgers. With no cliché phrases or images known to everyone; only personal stories, memories and feelings.
- At three public roundtables, artists and experts will have discussions about how St. Petersburg is portrayed in visual art, photography and street art. Also discussed will be how the city myth develops, as well as which representations of the city are in demand today and why. Before each roundtable, you will have a curator’s tour to give you an author’s vision of the City π exhibition and the image of St. Petersburg in the exhibition halls and galleries.
EVENTS GUIDE
March 5, 7:00 pm
Roundtable “Is St. Petersburg Displayed Objectively by a Photographic Objective Today?”
March 12, 7:00 pm
“City π. Monologues about a Personal St. Petersburg.”
Guest: Ivan Chechot, art historian.
March 19, 7:00 pm
Roundtable “Street Art: an art practice or a social phenomenon?”
March 26, 7:00 pm
“City π. Monologues about a Personal St. Petersburg.”
Guest: Eduard Kochergin, writer, People’s Painter of Russia.