Sputnik Sochi Building, Southern Russian Project, Krasnodar Region, Black Sea Coast, Architect

Sputnik Development, Sochi, Russia

Black Sea Coast Building Development design by McAdam Architects with Ginzburg Architects

5 May 2011

Sputnik Development Sochi

Mcadam Architects Competes For Landmark Mixed-use Development In Sochi, Krasnodar Region, Russia.

Mixed-use development – retail/entertainment complex over 3 levels of basement, with two 19-storey towers of serviced apartments above

Design: Mcadam Architects

Sputnik Sochi

McAdam Architects, in a joint venture with Moscow-based Ginzburg Architects, has been shortlisted for a 40,000 m2 mixed use, “Sputnik” multi-storey development in the resort city of Sochi (Krasnodar region), on the Black Sea coast, southern Russia.

Sputnik Sochi Russian Project, McAdam Architects
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The £75m project is located in a formal parkland setting, along Kurortny Prospekt, the main boulevard through Sochi, and in a prominent elevated position, overlooking the main harbour and marina. This prime site provides a landmark development location, as a symbolic gateway to the city and a beacon to the coast line frontage.

The mixed use scheme comprises a two-level elevated plinth including a retail/entertainment complex, over three levels of basement, with two slinky-like 19-storey towers of serviced apartments above. The retail /entertainment element, that is required in the brief, cleverly uses the section to house the cinema within a half basement level to reduce the impact of the development on the parkland surroundings.

The design intent is to incorporate the sloping park landscape, as a series of terraces for outdoor eating on the roof and in the complex restaurant level. In this manner the public routes from the park and through to the marina become the public malls at ground and roof level of the development.

Sputnik Sochi building design by McAdam Architects
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The two towers proposed provide accommodation for 220 serviced apartments, ranging from 90m2 through to 360m2 penthouses on the upper levels.

Tanya Kalinina, a director of McAdam, says: “The slinky aesthetic of the irregular stacked radial plan, allows for space maximisation, and unique balcony and unit configurations for all-round views. There is also the benefit of deep shading elements to glazed apartment fronts, which are potentially configured to the path of the sun and the towers’ proximity to one another.”

“The wavy nature of the white balconies against set-back glazing also makes a gentle maritime reference” she adds.

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