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Crystal Island: Foster + Partners
One of the most ambitious projects in the world
One of the most ambitious projects in the world, Crystal Island has received preliminary planning permission. It will be located in Moscow as part of a mega-structure covering an area of 2.5 million square meters. The scale of the project is unprecedented, but at 450 meters it will also be one of the tallest structures in the world.
Foster's project, presented in Moscow by the public architectural council, was conceived as a city within a city, rich in different uses, including museums, theatres and cinemas.
Crystal Island is a new and extremely cutting-edge project, located on the Nagatino Peninsula, on the Moskva River, only 7.5 km from the Kremlin, it will offer panoramic views of the entire Russian capital.
Crystal Island will have a series of cultural and exhibition buildings, there will be a cinema and a hotel with 3000 rooms, 900 apartments, as well as offices and shops, there is also an international school for 500 students. Designed to maintain dynamic and lively economic and social activities throughout the day, residents will live and work within a densely planned area where distances will still be human-scale. The development is also a strong example of the balance in which energy will be consumed, with individual components using energy at different times helping to reinforce the importance of the economic and social activity of the area.
The building, moving in a spiral shape, emerges majestically from the Moscow urban profile. At its base is the geometry of a diagonal grid extended to the entire new surrounding park, which will offer a series of activities throughout the year, and ski slopes and ice skating in the winter.
The internal steel structure will be covered with large triangular frames inclined to form an external glass skin and the formation of terraces with a series of winter gardens, which with their microclimate will form a second layer of protection for the internal spaces, from the summer climate and the strong winter cold.
The glass windows of the internal vertical facades will have appropriate screening to ensure the privacy of individual apartments. The total cost will be 2,5 billion euros.
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Crystal Island: Foster + Partners
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Category Contemporary Architectures
