Tower 2000, Modern skyscraper in Moscow International Business Center, Russia
Tower 2000 is a modern skyscraper within Moscow's International Business Center, rising with 34 floors of glass and steel construction. Its reflective facade changes appearance throughout the day as light shifts across its surface.
The tower was completed in 2001 as one of the earliest major office buildings in the area. It marked the start of converting a former industrial site into a modern financial center.
The tower's original name, the Reform Foundation Building, honoured economist Stanislav Shatalin, who headed the fund behind it until his death in March 1997. A local tradition holds that it stands roughly where the demolished Church of Elizabeth the Venerable once stood, on the former Dorogomilovo cemetery, closed in 1948.
Tower 2000 stands on the right bank of the Moskva River, on the zero plot of Moscow City, and is linked directly by its lobby to the Bagration Bridge, which leads to the main territory of the complex. The tower rises 104 metres over 32 floors, with offices on floors 2 to 27. Visitors heading to the main Moscow City site cross the bridge from the tower side.
Tower 2000 stands on the right bank of the Moskva River, the only building of Moscow City on that side, and a vestibule links it directly to the Bagration Bridge. Sources suggest it rose roughly where the demolished Church of Elizabeth the Venerable once stood, on the former Dorogomilovo cemetery, closed in 1948.
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