GAZPROM PLANS SOARING TOWER AS ST PETERSBURG HEADQUARTERS
June 1st, 2008
BY MARK ROWE
YOU are a young, thrusting oil company, sitting on vast reserves and anticipating an even more lucrative future. You're looking to make a statement about your position in the world. What do you do? In the case of Gazprom Neft, you build a new mini-city. The company is the majority partner in a development of offices, houses and museums that will begin construction in St Petersburg later this year; and at its centre will be a 396 metres high tower taken from the universal handbook of masculine architecture.
Gazprom Tower, as Russians have dubbed it, ...
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