Azure Skies, Residential complex in Sovetsky District, Kazan, Russia
Azure Skies is a 37-storey residential tower at Albert Kamaleev Avenue 1, at the corner of Patris Lumumba Street in Kazan's Sovetsky District. Its typical floor plan consists of two circle segments measuring 14.4 by 52.4 metres, offset along their longitudinal axis, and the facade is almost entirely glazed. The building has 256 apartments, a two-storey stylobate and three underground parking levels.
Construction began in 2007 with a planned completion in November 2009, on land of the Kazan-2 airport closed in the early 2000s. Work halted in 2008 over creditor banks, resumed in 2009 after debt restructuring raised the cost to 1.5 billion rubles, stopped again over unpaid leasing, and restarted in February 2010 with a Socgorbank loan. The complex was commissioned on 29 November 2013; total cost exceeded 1.8 billion rubles.
The complex is called "Лазурные небеса" in Russian and "Зәңгәрсу күкләр" in Tatar, both meaning azure skies; the Tatar name appears on the Tatar Wikipedia article about the tower. The building stands on the site of Kazan-2 airport, which closed in the early 2000s, and its address is Albert Kamaleev Avenue, 1.
Azure Skies stands at the intersection of Albert Kamaleev Avenue and Patris Lumumba Street in the Sovetsky district, on the site of the former Kazan-2 airport, closed in the early 2000s. The complex has three underground levels with parking for 275 cars, reached from inside the building.
The project was first designed as two towers, but only one was built. The 37 above-ground floors include two technical levels, the 19th and 37th, and the three underground floors hold a 275-car parking garage. Six lifts serve the 256 apartments.
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