Victory Towers To Rise In Kyiv

The Ukraine may be in something of an economic funk right now, but despite that skyscraper building continues in the country's capital regardless.

The most recent of this stream of projects is Victory Towers, a twin 229 metre tall development with 55 floors in each of the skyscrapers and a huge shared basement between them four floors deep that will offer parking for 1,199 cars. There will be 292,246 gross square metres of floorspace but the total usable floorspace for the occupiers will be a rather more modest 165,000 square metres.

The $270 million dollar project is being built for K.A.N Development on a key arterial route in Kyiv that overlooks the busy roads of Povitriaflotsky Avenue and Borshchahovska Street.

Local firm Archimatika has designed the project although precisely which will be built has yet to be revealed. Although both the designs are similar in terms of massing with two towers featuring curving corners and suspended floors linking them together above ground level, there are some important external differences.

One approach features a slick glass skin wrapped around the entirety of the towers whilst the other one has the glazing projecting on four sides of each tower past the curved corners. With some good quality glass put on the towers, the finish could make them very impressive although alternatively a cheap approach to the cladding could create something less pleasant.

Preparation work has recently begun on the site and is set to culminate in the summer of 2010. from there the towers will have a construction schedule of approximately four and a half years.