RMJM

Client

Gazprom

Types

Masterplanning
Mixed Use
Commercial
Landscape

Size

330,000 Sqm

Project description

RMJM has been appointed to design the new Gazprom Group headquarters and business centre on a 17-hectare brownfield site at Lakhta, St Petersburg. The 330,000 sqm complex includes commercial office space as well as retail, leisure and residential developments.

The team have revised their original design, originally proposed for the Okhta district of St Petersburg, to create an iconic building and masterplan that will revitalise an area of former industrial land 12kms from the city centre on the coast of the Gulf of Finland.

The tower design is the natural evolution of the RMJM concept previously proposed for the Okhta site, a design inspired entirely by the city of St Petersburg with its baroque architecture and water filled canals, with the changing form of water to ice, from soft organic freeform to angular crystalline geometry.

The design stage of the project will be completed in 2012 and the first phase of construction will be funded by Gazprom Group. Investment for further phases of the project will be shared between the Gazprom Group and private investors. It is hoped that the complex will provide a blueprint for future sustainable design across Russia.