TATLIN PLAN Лахта центр

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For centuries St. Petersburg with its magnificent heritage has managed to combine a rich

history and a bold experiment. Glorious examples of the architecture of the past have

always been found side by side with the cutting-edge technologies of the time, whether

it be electric lighting of bridges and streets, telegraphs or rail transport. In this sense,

the project of the Lakhta Center, a multifunctional public and business complex, which has

got its name from its location (Lakhta — a historical district on shore of the Gulf of Finland

in the northwestern part of the city — ed. note) and has been constructed 9 km away from

the city centre, corresponds to large-scale and ahead of time plans underlying the entire

urban structure to the uttermost.

The developed project is truly unique in many ways. The 462 m tall Lakhta Center tower

has become the northernmost skyscraper in the world. It is the tallest tower in Europe.

In Russia, only the 540 m Ostankino TV tower is taller, but it is an engineering structure.

About 20,000 people from more than 20 countries took part in the complex construction.

The complex was commissioned in 2018. In 2015, the Lakhta Center was included in

the Guinness Book of Records for the most volumetric continuous concrete pouring.

That much concrete was necessary to form the bottom slab of the box-shaped foundation,