Moscow’s Federation Tower is well on the way to becoming Europe’s tallest building at 365 meters, with one of the world’s loftiest concrete frames. With its accompanying 509-m-tall observation tower, the skyscraper is on “super fast track,” a schedule that sometimes has left the building’s Chinese contractor struggling to keep up with a design that keeps evolving.
As one of Russia’s first modern skyscrapers, the two-building Federation Tower development leans heavily on western expertise in design, management and materials. But construction has been entrusted to contractors from China and Turkey, with not always comfortable results.