Moscow UFO shaped complex - Galaktika

Moscow's South West area will be graced by a giant "flying saucer"- shaped building "Galaktika" (Galaxy), which will "hover" over the busy intersection of Michurin and Lobachevski streets. It will include a shopping center, hotel, plenty of parking and even helicopter landing pads.

Irina Laur, the author of this unique UFO idea, and the main investor - "MOST / SKM Holdings" - presented these designs in Cannes, which generated a considerable interest. A 60-meters high, 213,000 sq. m. structure will also contain a luxury hotel, a shopping mall with various restaurants and enough space to park 2500 cars. It still remains to be seen if this project will see completion (with 250-300 million dollars estimated cost and possible logistic nightmares). Construction will start at the end of this year and is expected to be completed by 2010.

Is this a landing pad for our non-terrestrial guests? Wild looking struture, reminds me a land based cruise ship or the Guggenheim on steroids. The above is translated, please see the src's for the Russian story. I think we'll start to see more and more unusual architecture in the coming years, its always good to have some eye candy.





Russian src:
www.expert.ru...

Translated src:
thrillingwonder.blogspot.com...

brill

[edit on 27-3-2007 by brill]

haha dude thats crazy, pretty intresting to see someone come foward with a design like that for a building structure!!!! im gona have to pay a visit to that mall once its done! cheers for the translation.