Eurasia Tower - Russia

Eurasia Tower is a supertall building among a cluster of Moscow's tallest buildings created collectively to create a completely new skyline on the city's east side. It is located in Moscow City, a newly developed central business district. The Eurasia Tower, also known as Eurasia during its design phase, was Russia's first composite construction, featuring a reinforced concrete core and a steel outer frame. The structural design allows for internal spaces without columns, which are suitable for offices, which make up a large section of the building's programming. The structure has a bent facade made up of closely spaced steel columns that sit atop a belt truss that serves as a load transfer for the tower's foundation, allowing for an open lobby on the bottom floor.

The tower has 50 levels of offices and 20 floors of luxury apartments, each with its own amenity space on level 50, which includes a pool and gym. The brilliant green curtain wall facade transforms from fixed windows to movable windows for the residents as it passes through the office floors. A platform structure at the base of the tower has a 149-room hotel, stores, restaurants, bars, parking, and a 3,000-square-meter casino. The building then extends 5 floors below grade across a wide site area significantly greater than the footprint of the tower.

The building has underground connections to the Moscow City district's neighboring structures as well as the Moscow Metro network. The tower's proximity to the 3rd Ring Road not only strengthens its ties to the surrounding area, but also ensures that it will remain a prominent part of Moscow's tallest skyline cluster.

Location: Moscow
Height: 308.9 m
Floors: 72
Architects: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Gorproject
Building Function: Residential / Office / Hotel
Completion: 2015