Mercury City Tower

The Mercury City Tower (Russian Меркурий Сити Тауэр ) is a skyscraper in Moscow, Russia and part of the new business district Moscow City.

The foundation stone for the tower was laid in 2006. With a height of 339 meters, the Mercury City Tower is the tallest skyscraper in both Europe and Russia as a whole. In the 75 floors high scoring house there up to the 40th floor office and business premises, about luxury apartments.

Originally, the tower should have a total height of 380 meters, but in the summer of 2011, the amount due to a new building regulations of the city of Moscow had to be reduced, since that provision only provides for a maximum height of 340 meters in the area. Therefore, the steel tip that was to follow on the roof at a height of 332 meters, no longer included in the construction plans. On the rest of the design of the tower, however, nothing has been changed, so that the construction work was not subject to restrictions.

The building is entirely constructed of reinforced concrete and covered with a brownish shimmering glass facade, which makes it stand out against the skyline of Moscow in particular. The idea of this time largely completed building took place on 1 November 2012. The construction costs are said to have amounted to the equivalent of around one billion U.S. dollars (about 780 million euros ).