Architects:SPEECH, Sergei Tchoban

Area :194064 m²

Year :2019

Photographs :Dmitry Chistoprudov / SPEECH

Lead Architects :Sergei Tchoban, Igor Chlenov, Alexey Kargin

Landscape :BuroMoscow

Clients : MR Group, Coalco

Facades : ABC Klinkergruppe

Glass System : Guardian

Architectural Lighting : Philips

Façades : ABC Klinkergruppe

Architectural Lighting : Philips

City : Moscow

Country : Russia

This development site has standing on it the V.P. Zotov Bread Factory, a Constructivist listed building which is subject to a preservation order. The close vicinity of this Avant-garde structure largely predetermined the design of the Presnya City residential complex with its layout based on the principle of axial composition.

Around the bread factory is a pedestrian zone from which three 44-storey towers diverge like rays. In order to make the volumes seem smaller than they actually are, they have been given the shape of slender slabs which are stepped in relation to one another. The plinths of each of the towers are similar in design; each plinth consists of several rectangular one-storey blocks which are stepped in relation to one another.