Triumph-Palace

The Triumph Palace (Russian Триумф - Палас ) in Moscow is a finished in 2005 skyscraper. With the establishment of the peak in December 2003, the 264.1 m high skyscraper replaced the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt am Main as the highest skyscraper in Europe starting. In 2007, the Triumph Palace had this item at the Moscow Embankment Tower leave, which is four meters higher, but remained the tallest residential building.

The Triumph Palace is northwest of the city center near the Leningradski Prospectus, the arterial road towards the airport Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg, between the stations and Sokol Aeroport the "green" line of the Moscow Metro.

The building has 54 floors and consists of nine wings, each with a private entrance. The wings are connected only in the first five storeys each other. On the section from the tenth to the thirty-seventh floor are residential floors. The gross floor area of the building is approximately 163,300 square meters. The tip consists of eight sections with 3,000 individual parts, which were installed within six days with the help of helicopters; it is surrounded by 700 m² of stainless steel and weighs 52 tons. Architecturally, the building inspired by the monumental style (also called " cake" style called ) of Stalin's Seven Sisters from the 1950s and is therefore also referred to informally as the "Eighth Sister ".