Gazprom-City
Our project for Gazprom City does not propose a final, perfected design for a high-rise building; it neither provides, nor does it intend to provide a new typology for a high-rise building for the simple reason that the dialogue with the client did not furnish insight into the Company’s current and future work culture. Moreover, it did not make sense to us to impose a psychologically motivated architecture on the client or to offer a symbolic or otherwise disguised vocabulary of signs. Our Gazprom project is essentially an urban statement for a specific location in the city of St. Petersburg with its almost mythical origins at the confluence of the Neva and Okhta rivers. This was once the site of a Swedish fortress that was later demolished to make room for a Russian bastion. Just as St. Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Admiralty complement each other on either side of the Neva (fig.), we envisioned the new Gazprom City and the Smolny establishing an urban and spatial pendant to St. Petersburg (fig. map). This was the urban maxim underlying all of our architectural efforts in working out the Gazprom master plan.
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