Architecture

Zenith International Center for Business and EducationProspect Vernadskogo, Building #62, Moscow, Russia 103011

Owner:	Russian Academy of Sciences, Zenith Development Inc. (joint American-Italian private for-profit group)
Program:	General office, educational facilities, fitness center
Area:	1,260,000 sq. ft.

This ambitious project inserted a stark crystal-like contemporary structure into a dilapidating post-soviet urban fabric. Zoning laws had to be amended to allow for this development. Goals for the project and clients’ visions reached beyond boundaries of the site and aimed at revitalization of this once vibrant collegian part of Moscow. Conceived as a model for public/private partnership using domestic and foreign investments this project was an early model for Russian real estate development.

The Program included completion of the core and shell building, conversion, renovations, adaptive reuse of mixed use 21-story tower.

*This project was completed when Aleksandr Sheykhet was with HOK Architects.