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Media City in St Petersburg
New Mixed-Use Development in Russia – design by AI Studio Architects
19 May 2019
Media City
Architects: AI Studio with Hyland Edgar Driver
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

London and Moscow based architecture practice reveals plans for a new Media City in central Saint Petersburg.

The project will include office spaces for media and other creative industries, as well as the public realm, designed in collaboration with Hyland Edgar Driver.

The 135,000 square metre mixed-use development will occupy a partly disused industrial site in the delta of the Neva River.

The site is located in an area with a varied, yet exciting, architectural heritage which includes some magnificent buildings from the 19th century, examples of Soviet architecture, as well as some modern day developments.
The concept aims to fuse contemporary materials and technology with the historical ambiance of the area, without losing the integrity of either. The result is a contemporary multipurpose office and public space that allows easy access and movement.

Key features of the proposed design include:

Interconnected flying bridges will link all the buildings. The flying bridges are inspired by the concept of a molecule, with the cores linked with each other on different levels. The seemingly random but orderly geometry of the flying bridges depicts a social network diagram. ...