World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow



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Crystal Island, the world’s biggest building, is set to be built in Moscow within five years. The plans are for a 27 million square foot interior! The cost? Four billlion dollars.

The statistics for the project are absolutely staggering; floor area alone will be four times the size of Pentagon in Washington DC. The incredible 1500 ft. tall multi use structure will feature 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, sports complex and much more. There will also be a 16,500 space underground parking lot for all the visitors. The Crystal Island visitors will be able to enjoy panoramic views of Moscow on the viewing platforms located 980 ft. above ground.

Link -via Dark Roasted Blend


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Posted on December 31, 2007 at 10:40 pm by Miss Cellania
Category: Architecture



9 comments to "World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow"

  • kevin
    January 1st, 2008 at 1:20 am

    …Le Corbusier anyone?

  • Jack H
    January 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    How much should we bet that this project comes in way over budget and much later than expected?

  • Alex
    January 1st, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    My thoughts exactly, kevin - it’ll just accelerate urban decay like his many large-scale public housing buildings.

  • Kaka
    January 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    All I think about when I see plans for this sort of thing, anywhere in the world, is:

    GARBAGE. RUBBISH. TRASH.

    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

    And I don’t just mean all the packets and cans. I mean WATER and EXCREMENT.

    No pun intended, but who’s going to clean the shit?

    How about the AIR in there?

    The Energy it will take to keep it running?

    I imagine within 10 years of this being lived in, there will be piles of garbage and waste everywhere.

    And for those that decide to live in it, they had better think about how all that shite is going to be moved around.

  • Denita TwoDragons
    January 1st, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Looks like it should have presents arranged beneath it! *LOL*

    –TwoDragons

  • Geoduck
    January 1st, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    I doubt it will be finished at all.

  • Fran
    January 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Ironic that after a post titled Planet Earth with a video depicting some of the most beautiful sites in the world, there’s a post showing a new building that would have apartments, shopping, entertainment, etc all enclosed in one area so that no one ever had to leave and see anything else on Planet Earth…

  • Orjans Morjan
    January 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    This won’t be anything special once it’s finished. I’ll much rather stay at that moon hotel.

  • Jezebel
    January 4th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    I was so confused for a minute. . . It’s just the biggest, as in floor space. It isn’t anywhere close to the tallest?

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