Crystal Island, the World’s Biggest Building by Foster and Partners
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Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square meters and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square meters.The Crystal Island has already earned the reputation of the most ambitious building project in the world. The construction is evaluated at four billion dollars.
The city within the building will house 900 luxury apartments, 3,000 hotel rooms, a theater, a fitness complex, a cinema, a museum and an international school for 500 students, not to mention countless stores.
The exterior facade will be solar responsive and will include solar panels which, along with wind turbines, will generate electricity for the huge tower. Natural ventilation will be provided thanks to numerous strategically placed large atriums. The internal environment will also have dynamic enclosure panels slotted into the structural framing that will allow daylight to penetrate deep into the heart of the structure; the panels will also be controlled to modify temperature inside the building – closed in winter for extra warmth and opened in summer to allow natural ventilation.
Most likely, the skyscraper is built about ten kilometers far from Moscow’s center. The project is set to be completed in 2014.
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January 5th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
ITS BEAUTIFUL
January 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Wow, if this actually gets constructed I will have another reason to visit Russia. This is amazing.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
so well put,you are so right.it is beautiful
January 9th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Awesome!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Nothing to be said but that it is beautiful indeed. I would definitely visit Russia to see this.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Though beautiful, the thing that strikes me the most is the similarity in profile to many of the artist renderings of the Tower of Babel.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Amzing! I lvoe it looks so cool!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
just as if one of those clssic russian cupoles have sunk.! graet sumbolism!!
April 7th, 2009 at 2:02 am
hi this is vijay . this biggest & buitiful building.
May 17th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
qoq, the russian babe on the ad on the side so fucking d-able, u know what ladies should have square heads so you can put your beers on them… yeah
September 4th, 2009 at 6:47 am
nice and a beautiful building
September 4th, 2009 at 6:49 am
a dream place to spend life
September 4th, 2009 at 6:50 am
wow what a creation of human , bravo !!!
September 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
termendos!…building ,whos planning is this need to appretiates…
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:55 am
That is a kind of great architech but non of this would be appreciated. this is costly and distroy the environment
March 11th, 2011 at 4:30 am
i love this projekt and thak u buildars
May 15th, 2011 at 12:51 am
I like this building
October 15th, 2011 at 3:15 am
beautiful porjeket i like this building @Mohd Abdul Muqeet