Imperia Tower, Skyscraper in Moscow City, Russia
Imperia Tower is a 239-meter-tall skyscraper with 60 floors of glass and steel in Moscow's business district. The building houses offices, apartments, shops, and hotels within its modern structure.
Plot 4 was first assigned to an Aquapark leisure complex with a hotel, designed in the late 1990s by Mosproekt-2 with Finnish and British partners. Work on the tower began in 2001-2002, halted in 2003 over financing, and resumed in 2006 when the American firm NBBJ and Turkish contractor Enka took over, raising the tower to 60 floors. The hotel floors became apartments before the building was commissioned on 22 November 2011 by deputy mayor Vladimir Resin.
The museum on the 56th floor displays exhibitions about how Moscow developed and changed over time. Visitors can see how the city grew and transformed through different periods.
The tower has two escalators and thirty elevators, and the complex provides 1,500 parking spaces. On level −1, the Empire Blackyard shopping gallery links the skyscraper to the neighbouring City of Capitals and the Central Core, where the Vystavochnaya and Delovoy Tsentr metro stations are located. Offices occupy floors 2 to 41, apartments floors 43 to 59.
The tower was first planned as an aquapark with a hotel, and city authorities insisted the aquapark stay in the project, allowing the developer to add two underground parking levels in exchange. The hotel floors were replaced by apartments only at the end of construction in 2011.
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