Mercury City Tower

Mercury City Tower
Меркурий Cити Tауэр

General information
Status	Complete
Type	Commercial offices Residential condominiums
Architectural style	Structural Expressionism
Location	Moscow International Business Center Moscow, Russia
Coordinates	55°45′2″N 37°32′22.6″E / 55.75056°N 37.539611°E / 55.75056; 37.539611Coordinates: 55°45′2″N 37°32′22.6″E / 55.75056°N 37.539611°E / 55.75056; 37.539611
Construction started	2009
Completed	2013
Cost	US$ 1 billion
Height
Roof	338.8 m (1,112 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	75 5 below ground
Floor area	180,160 m² (1,939,200 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	31
Design and construction
Architect	M.M. Posokhin Frank Williams and partners G.L. Sirota
Developer	LLC Rasen Stroy
Structural engineer	Mosproject-2
Main contractor	Rasen Construction
References
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Mercury City Tower (Russian: Меркурий Сити Тауэр) is a 1109 feet tall skyscraper in Moscow and one of the tallest buildings in Europe.

Located in the Moscow International Business Center, construction started in 2009. The Mercury City Tower is a multipurpose building with housing, offices and shops.^[5] The tower is located on plot 14 of the MIBC. The structure's height is 339 meters ^[6] above ground, with five underground floors. The building topped out at 338.8 m (1,112 ft) on 1 November 2012 and overtook The Shard in London as Europe's tallest building.^[7]

Wireframe image of the tower

References

↑ Mercury City Tower at CTBUH Skyscraper Database
↑ Mercury City Tower at Emporis
↑ Mercury City Tower at SkyscraperPage
↑ Mercury City Tower at Structurae
↑ "Mercury City Tower, Moscow". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
↑ Emporis GmbH. "Mercury City Tower, Moscow, Russia". Emporis.com. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
↑ Ilya Khrennikov, 'Moscow Mercury City Tops Shard as Europe’s Tallest Tower', Bloomberg, 1 November 2012.

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Timeline of the tallest buildings in Europe

Midland Grand Hotel (82m) (1869)
Royal Liver Building (98 m) (1911)
Terrazza Martini Tower (108 m) (1940)
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment (176 m) (1952)
Moscow State University (240 m) (1953)
Messeturm (257 m) (1990)
Commerzbank Tower (259 m) (1997)
Triumph Palace (264 m) (2003)
Naberezhnaya Tower (268 m) (2007)
Capital City Moscow Tower (302 m) (2009)
The Shard (310 m) (2012)
Mercury City Tower (339 m) (2012)

Supertall skyscrapers

Current

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South America	Gran Torre Santiago

Asia	23 Marina Abenobashi Terminal Building Skyscraper (Abeno Harukas) Abraj Al Bait ADNOC Headquarters Almas Tower Al Hamra Tower Arraya Tower Aspire Tower Baiyoke Tower II Bank of China Tower Burj Al Arab Burj Khalifa Cayan Tower The Center Central Plaza China World Trade Center Tower III Chongqing World Financial Center CITIC Plaza Dalian Eton Center Emirates Office Tower Elite Residence Etihad Towers Fortune Center Greenland Puli Center Guangzhou International Finance Center HHHR Tower International Commerce Centre International Finance Centre Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza Jin Mao Tower Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower Kingdom Centre KK100 Leatop Plaza Longxi International Hotel Minsheng Bank Building Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre Tower 1 Nina Tower Northeast Asia Trade Tower Ocean Heights Pearl River Tower Petronas Towers Princess Tower Rose Tower Shanghai World Financial Center Shimao International Plaza Shun Hing Square Taipei 101 Telekom Tower Tianjin World Financial Center The Address Downtown Dubai The Index The Landmark The Marina Torch The Pinnacle The Wharf Times Square Tuntex Sky Tower Wanda Plaza Wenzhou World Trade Center We've the Zenith Wuxi Maoye City - Marriott Hotel Wuxi Suning Plaza 1 Zifeng Tower

Europe	City of Capitals Eurasia Mercury City Tower OKO Tower The Shard

Australia	Q1

Under construction

North America

Asia

China	Baoneng Center Baoneng Shenyang Global Financial Center Chang Fu Jin Mao Tower Changsha A9 Financial District Changsha IFS Tower T1 Chengdu Greenland Tower China Chuneng Tower China Resources Centre Block A China Resources Headquarters Chongqing Corporate Avenue 1 Chongqing IFS T1 Chongqing World Financial Center Concord International Centre CTF Finance Centre Dalian Greenland Center Dalian International Trade Center Deji Plaza Diwang International Fortune Center Dongguan International Trade Center 1 East Pacific Center Gate to the East Gemdale Gangxia Tower 1 Golden Eagle Tiandi Tower A Golden Eagle Tiandi Tower B Goldin Finance 117 Greenland Group Suzhou Center Haikou Tower Hanking Center Heartland 66 Office Tower Hengqin Headquarters Tower 2 Heung Kong Tower Hon Kwok City Center Huaguoyuan Tower 1 Huaguoyuan Tower 2 Jin Wan Plaza 1 Jinan Center Financial City Logan Century Center 1 Mandarin Oriental Chengdu Modern Media Center Nanjing Olympic Suning Tower Nanjing World Trade Center Tower 1 Ningbo Center One Shenzhen Bay Ping An Finance Centre Phoenix Towers Riverside Century Plaza Main Tower Rose Rock International Finance Center Runhua Global Center 1 Shanghai Tower Shenglong Global Center Shimao Hunan Center Shum Yip Upperhills Tower 1 South Asian Gate Spring City 66 Suning Plaza Tower 1 Suzhou IFS Suzhou Zhongnan Center Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Binhai Center Tianjin Modern City Office Tower Tianjin R&F Guangdong Tower White Magnolia Plaza Wuhan Center Wuhan Greenland Center Xiamen International Centre Xiamen Shimao Cross-Strait Plaza A Xiamen Shimao Cross-Strait Plaza B Yantai Shimao No.1 The Harbour Yuexiu Fortune Center Tower 1 Zhuhai St. Regis Hotel & Office Tower Zhujiang New City Tower

India	Lokhandwala Minerva Namaste Tower Oasis Tower Orchid Crown Palais Royale, Mumbai World One

Saudi Arabia	Capital Market Authority Headquarters Diamond Tower Jeddah Tower Lamar Towers

South Korea	LCT Landmark Tower LCT Residential Tower A LCT Residential Tower B Lotte World Tower

UAE	Ahmed Abdul Rahim Al Attar Tower Al Yaqoub Tower Central Market Project DAMAC Residenze Dubai Pearl Marina 101 The Address the BLVD The Skyscraper (Dubai)

other	Abu Dhabi Plaza Gate of Kuwait Gate of Taipei IB Tower KL118 MahaNakhon Pertamina Energy Tower Ryugyong Hotel The Stratford Residences VietinBank Business Center Office Tower The Pinwheel

Europe

Lakhta Center

Australia

Australia 108

Construction delayed or suspended

Former

World Trade Center (Original)

See also: Proposed supertall skyscrapers; List of architects of supertall buildings

Moscow International Business Center "Moscow-City"

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Transport	Bagration Bridge Vystavochnaya Mezhdunarodnaya

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