OREANDA-NEWS. On 27 June 2008 was announced, that a high-rise mixed-use office, hotel and retail complex is to be erected at Leningradskoe Highway near Voykovskaya subway station, north Moscow. The relevant decision was approved at a session of the Public city planning council under the Moscow City Mayor on June 20.

Three projects of the skyscraper were introduced at the session, however, a clear choice hasn’t been made. The first variant includes three towers with 37, 26 and 23 storeys. The second one stipulates the construction of a 37-storey tower and two 24-storey buildings. The last design is a complex included a 48-storey office building and a 7-storey hotel. A total area of the complex to build will be about 250,000 sq m. It is also planned to construct a car park for more than 2,000 parking spaces.

“It will be possible to reach the railway station and the subway station from the office complex through the roofed and heated travolators,” Aleksander Kuzmin, head architect of Moscow, said at the session.

The official also noted that the small ring of Moscow Railway would be used for passenger traffic at short notice. Transfer stations will be built at the points of intersection of the railway and metro lines. Such a station will be located near Voykovskaya subway station. “It will make it possible to enhance the attractiveness of the use of public transport to the workers of the office skyscraper,” Mr Kuzmin concluded.