President of the St. Petersburg Union of architects believes “Promenade of Europe” an interesting project

My personal opinion-project Promenade is quite interesting in Europe, 31 July, said at a press conference the new elected President of the St. Petersburg Union of architects Oleg Romanov, evaluating used a construction project in the historic centre of Saint Petersburgs multipurpose complex residential and social and business purpose (area-10 ha). Some officials have suggested instead building the Smolny do Park at this place, but as a reporter BakuToday, oleg Romanov stated that the structure of this Saint Petersburg project.

The only thing that upset the new President of the Union, is the architects-designers of homes in Promenade of Europe: when I was in the jury of the architectural competition, then mesmerized me with promises that the houses will be designed by different architects. This is done as promised, but not domestic architects, and the Italians or the poles .

Honorary President of the St. Petersburg Union of architects Vladimir Popov recalled that the master planners project-Evgenij Gerasimov and partners LLC and architectural Bureau Sergei Tchoban & partners were selected during the international competition, in which the jury were presented to the specialists of the architectural profession. As noted by the representatives of the Union, this architectural competitions-a rare occurrence in St. Petersburg, because often the winners of contests choose not professionals.

We remind that the project Promenade of Europe is a construction on a 10 ha in Petrogradsky district of Saint Petersburg (near Petrovsky Stadium between dobrolyubova, embankment of the River Neva Small, borderes and the western border area of academician of Likhachev) several quarters of elite residential real estate as well as office buildings and shopping centers, five tgostinicy and the dance Palace of Boris Eifman. The project is financed by OJSC VTB Bank, received the rights to its implementation in the year 2006. At the moment, the project manager-VTB-development began releasing land from old buildings and rehabilitation of liberated land. The project cost is estimated at $ 47 billion rubles. Project realization terms-the year 2017. Land is the property of the Russian Federation (before there was Federal Institute of applied chemistry).

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President of the St. Petersburg Union of architects believes “Promenade of Europe” an interesting project