Mercury City Tower (Special Collection)
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This is yet another Special Collection item made under request of the proletariat masses.
This mod is a landmark from Moscow called Mercury Tower, it is right next to the Federation Building in the financial heart of the city. Is works as residential with a capacity to 3.000 inhabitants.
Mercury City Tower ( Меркурий Сити Тауэр) is a supertall skyscraper located on plot 14 in the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), in Moscow, Russia. Occupying a total area of 173,960 square metres (1,872,500 sq ft), the mixed-use building houses offices, apartments, a fitness center, and retail stores.
Rising 338.8 m (1,112 ft) tall, the Mercury City Tower was formerly the tallest building of Russia and Europe, having surpassed the Moscow Tower of the neighboring City of Capitals complex (also in the MIBC) as the tallest of Russia and The Shard in London as Europe’s tallest building. The Mercury City Tower kept this record from late 2012 to the summer of 2014, in which it was surpassed by the South Tower of the neighboring OKO complex (also on the MIBC) as the tallest building in Russia and Europe. Currently, it is the fifth-tallest building in Europe and it is also the tallest copper-clad building in the world.
Mercury City Tower was jointly developed by the American architect Frank Williams and the Russian engineering team Mosproject-2 under the leadership of architect Mikhail Posokhin. After the death of Williams in 2010, the Russians were able to convince Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat to succeed him and thus finish Williams’ work.
Construction of Mercury City Tower began in 2006. The project was estimated to be completed by 2009, but developers Mercury Development and Liedel Investments Limited preferred to slow down the project in order to not bring the building to the housing market during the Great Recession. By 21 April 2009, Mercury City Tower had just finished foundation work: finishing earthworks and five underground floors, and was ready for construction over ground. The estimated completion date was then pushed to 2010.
On 1 November 2012, the Mercury City Tower topped out at 338.8 m (1,112 ft), overtaking the Moscow Tower of the neighboring City of Capitals complex as the tallest building of Russia and The Shard in London as tallest building of Europe. It also became the world’s tallest building built of reinforced concrete.
Construction was finished in 2013.
On the summer of 2014, the South Tower of the neighboring OKO complex surpassed the Mercury City Tower as the tallest building in Russia and Europe as well as the tallest building built of reinforced concrete
Construction was conducted with the help of a US$300 million loan from Sberbank, which created the ground for speculation about the possible transition of the building into ownership of the bank in 2015–2016. The loan was restructured in 2016. The whole cost of the project was estimated by business publications to range between US$650 million and US$1 billion.
In May 2021 this building, alongside the Chinese and Russian diplomatic facilities in Australia, were the targets of a bomb threat posted on Dutch sports site Sportnieuws.nl that was hacked by persons calling themselves ‘Encore Ong’ and ‘Zehang T’.
I would like to dedicate this mod to friend from the Germany Tom, that always inspires me to mod in even more detail.
Thanks a lot to Comrade Ryantheskinny, Polcorp, OffRails, Fox, Sky, Ljubic, Chumbucket, Raysione, Dimndroll, Junna, Glebas, Hurtosera and MTandi.
Special Thanks to Elena. More items coming soon.
