42-storey high-class business center ("A"). All its facades are capable of broadcasting various images - such a new sight to the inhabitants of our country!
The skyscraper is located in the Northern capital, where there are many office buildings, hotels, bank branches. This place is considered the business center of the metropolis. From here you can easily get to the airport (Pulkovo), the center, or leave the city.
In the fall of 2015, it opened under the very roof of the Leader Tower 41. Many Russians have been looking forward to its opening for about four months. Have these expectations been justified?
Leader Tower: a restaurant under the roof
This gastronomic project got its name "Floor 41" not by chance. Occupying the last two floors of the tallest building in St. Petersburg - "Leader Tower", the restaurant is located at a height of about 140 meters. Directly from the hall you can go up to the roof, where there is an observation deck. From here, a magical view of the majestic city opens up, which you cannot but admire. Nikolai Alexandrov, Sergei Glazyrin, Natalya Nekrasova - the owners of "Floor 41" - had to work hard for the restaurant to start functioning. The work of the staff has not yet reached the proper level. The menu is also being finalized.
The Spaniard Daniel Negreira, widely known in the world of culinary, was invited to the restaurant ("Leader Tower") as the chef. The maestro is famous for masterly combining traditions of European, Asian, Russian cuisines in his dishes.
Interior by Archpoint Design Bureau
A team of experienced designers from the architectural bureau did an excellent job at Leader Tower. The restaurant is very creative inside. The craftsmen managed to bring some zest to the interior.
The main decoration of the space is flower pots hanging from the ceiling everywhere. Some kokedams float low enough for guests to touch these outlandish structures. So far, all flowers are artificial, but the management plans to replace them with live ones in the future.
One of the walls of the establishment is completely covered with green moss (also not real). Those wishing to dine in a forest glade should choose one of the tables nearby.
During daylight hours the restaurant (Leader Tower) is full of natural light. The impression is enhanced by the abundance of white in the interior (floor, ceiling, walls, columns, floor lamps) with the addition of gold (table legs, counter, cabinets).
In the corridor there is refrigeration equipment with products, from which all meals are prepared. Visitors can see almost all the ingredients of the dishes with their own eyes, including the bottles of wine.
Another interesting corner is the area around a real fireplace. There are small tables with round countertops for private conversations. Sofas separate this place from the rest of the space.
What's on the menu
The concept of the new chef, Igor Kornev, consists in a creative approach and author's change of the characteristic national dishes of Europe, Asia and Russia. Original presentation, novelty, extraordinary symbiosis of products - this is what distinguishes the kitchen of the "Floor 41" establishment. Therefore, they call it author's.
The main menu includes several sections: appetizers, salads, soups, josper (indoor grill), hot dishes, pasta and risotto, side dishes, desserts. In addition, there is a pan-Asian (poki, ceviche, tar-tar, tataki, sashimi) and bar (wine, vermouth) menu.
There are not many author's dishes in the list, the rest of the names seem familiar (until you see and try).
A great addition to expensive food is stunning views of the beautiful city, sky and sunsets. After all, a panoramic restaurant (Leader Tower contributes to this) also has a roof (not everywhere). Along the perimeter there are tables with comfortable sofas, allowing you to get aesthetic and gastronomic pleasure at the same time.
"Floor 41" - restaurant ("Leader Tower"): reviews
After opening, many customers were disappointed with the service and food. However, in 2016 the situation changed: the majority of visitors admire both the cuisine and the service.
The interior design did not leave anyone indifferent. Everyone managed to find their favorite spot in the restaurant. Toilet rooms are especially surprising. There are unique sinks (metal nets with white cobblestones) and trash bins (wicker baskets with wooden handles). Snow-white, clean, nice!
From food, desserts, cocktails, coffee, tuna tataki, author's vinaigrette, sashimi set with onion sauce, cream soup from forest mushrooms, tuna in nori are especially praised.
Families loved the children's playroom. The whole wall here is for painting. There is a TV panel, toys, children's furniture. And children are not bored, and parents are calm.
Good to know
Address: St. Petersburg, pl. Constitution, 3/2, Business Center "Leader Tower", 41 ". The metro station" Moskovskaya "is 960 meters away. There is a parking nearby. Phone: + 7-812-937-41-41.
Working hours:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - from 11:30 to 01:00;
25/04/2014
Two councils - the Council for Cultural Heritage under the City Government and the Scientific and Expert Council of the St. Petersburg branch of VOOPIiK - approved the concept of adapting the Pavlovsky barracks building on the Field of Mars, from where Lenenergo left, for a superhotel.
P the Zingarevich brothers' Plaza Lotos Group company is engaged in the transformation of the office building into the hotel. In 2010, the project of the hotel was created by the architect Rafail Dayanov. Two years later, at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum 2012, the ideas of Andrey Litvinov, who was called to replace Dayanov, received scandalous notoriety. Litvinov proposed to build a fountain on the Champ de Mars and attach a magnificent vestibule to the classical barracks building. These sketches, however, did not have an official status. There were many outraged public responses. Then the developers returned to Dayanov.
He did without fountains. Outside, there should be no changes to the building, except for the striped skylights on the roof. Hidden behind them are rooms with views.
Cultural heritage specialists at both councils agreed on the possibility of building underground parking lots and even overlapping two of the three courtyards, in addition to the main one, on the ground floor level.
The main problem is that to expand the room stock by a third (the hotel is designed for 200 rooms), it is necessary to build a rectangular building inside the middle of the three courtyards. Thus, the protected inner courtyard facades will become the inner walls of the building.
When this proposal got to the expertise of Mikhail Milchik, deputy director of the Institute "Spetsproektrestavratsiya", invited to conduct the state expertise, he refused this work. In his opinion, the new type of the middle courtyard will change the Stasov volume-spatial solution, which is the main subject of the barracks protection.
But there were more supporters of the hotel. However, they insistently recommended that the developer make the roof glazing in such a way that the light does not shine from the roof at night. Otherwise, the appearance of the monument will be hopelessly damaged.
According to our data, the reconstruction of the Pavlovsk Barracks should be completed in 2017 and cost 200 million euros.
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The barracks of the Pavlovsky Life Guards Regiment were built in 1817-1821 according to the project of Vasily Stasov. In the plan, the building is a rectangular trapezoid with facades facing the Field of Mars, Millionnaya Street and Aptekarsky Lane. There are three courtyards inside: front, middle, service. Lenenergo occupied Pavlovsk barracks from 1929 to 2010 .
Vadim SHUVALOV, photo
The Pavlovsk Regiment barracks complex is perhaps one of the most famous buildings in St. Petersburg. Without this yellow building with columns it is already impossible to imagine the Champ de Mars. It is not surprising that in recent years real wars have been waged over the building in the courts.
The construction of the western border of Tsaritsyn Meadows (as the Field of Mars was called in the 18th century) began almost immediately after the city was founded - in the 1710s. At various times, on the site of the future barracks of the Pavlovsky regiment, there were houses of General-in-Chief A.I. Rumyantsev, the palace of Elizabeth Petrovna, the mansion of the physician Johannes Lestok (by the way, it was in this palace that a conspiracy was created, as a result of which Elizaveta Petrovna took power in Russia, and Johann Lestok was an active participant in this conspiracy), the city pawnshop and even educational house. In the early 1900s, it was decided to rebuild the pawnshop and adjacent houses on the Champ de Mars into a single huge ministry building - but the project did not go further. Finally, in 1816, the architect V.P. Stasov took up a new project for a large-scale reconstruction of the entire group of buildings on the Field of Mars. This was the project of the Pavlovsk regiment barracks. The barracks were very useful here: after all, since the time of Paul I, the Field of Mars was used mainly for military exercises, reviews and parades.
Why was it the Pavlovsk regiment that was honored to have barracks in the very center of the city, almost next to the imperial palace? The fact is that in those years the glory of the Pavlovsk regiment really thundered almost all over the world. This regiment actively participated in battles against Napoleon even before his invasion of Russia, distinguished itself in the Battle of Borodino and in other battles of the Patriotic War, and on Kutuzov's recommendation was awarded the title of "Pavlovsky Life Guards" and was awarded the St. George banners.
The barracks of the Pavlovsk regiment were built in 1817-1819. They occupied more than half of the trapezoidal quarter between the Field of Mars, Moika and Millionnaya Street. The architect has decorated the huge façade facing the Champ de Mars with three porticos of Doric columns on the high basement. The facade overlooking Millionnaya Street is decorated with the same portico. The purpose of the building was emphasized by sculptural panels made of weapons, armor and various military attributes. The building of the Pavlovsk Barracks is still considered one of the most brilliant works of Stasov and the most harmonious structure of Russian classicism of those times. The emperor thanked Stasov for his work, assigning him, in addition to the actual fee, a life pension of 2,000 rubles a year (at that time the money, though modest, was sufficient).
From inside the barracks of the Pavlovsk regiment were arranged as follows. The lower floor housed utility rooms - kitchens, warehouses, laundries, regimental workshops. The first floor was occupied by the rooms of soldiers and junior officers. From the side of Aptekarsky Lane there were sheds, smithies, seikhgauzes. In the center of the building, on the second and third floors, was the church of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky. On the same floors, there were apartments for regimental commanders, staff officers and chief officers. Stables for 47 stalls were equipped in the yard. The total area of \u200b\u200bthe barracks building was 150 thousand square meters; the room was heated by 3037 (!) stoves.
In 1818, the regiment was disbanded, the barracks were emptied and became a rather dangerous place - mainly because of the street children hiding here. Finally, in 1928, the building was transferred to the Electrotok management (later - Lenenergo). For this, however, it was necessary to modify the bas-relief on the upper part of the building, changing the inscription from "Barracks of the Pavlovsky Regiment Life Guards" to "Lenenergo" and removing the symbols of the tsarist power. The officers' quarters were occupied by the offices of employees, and the church, according to a fairly widespread tradition then, was reconstructed into a club.
During the blockade, it was in the Lenenergo building that the 7th division of the people's militia was formed. The building was one of the key targets of the German aviation, and sooner or later the goal was achieved, and more than once: a 250-kilogram aerial bomb, piercing three floors of the building, exploded while trying to defuse it; the wall of the main building was pierced by a high-explosive shell, which led to a fire in the building; one of the artillery shells exploded from the side of Aptekarsky Lane. In short, after the war, the facades had to be restored anew; by the way, as part of the reconstruction, a unique operation was carried out to straighten the curved wall of the main building using 13 jacks with a lifting capacity of 20 tons each.
In 2011, Lenenergo left the Pavlovsk barracks building and moved to another building. And the building was given to the Plaza Lotus Group, which intend to build a five-star hotel here. The work will begin in January 2013, and it is planned to complete them by 2015. City defenders, however, have every reason to believe that under the guise of reconstruction, only the facade walls will be left in the Pavlovsky barracks building, and the interior will be demolished, as has already happened with other historical buildings given to investors. There is information that, bypassing KGIOP, a tender has already been held to find a company that will partially dismantle the building. The owners of the Plaza Lotus Group, the Zingarevich brothers, in turn, promise that no dismantling work will be carried out in the Pavlovsky barracks building.
Bank Saint Petersburg obtained control over OOO Lotos Hotels, which previously belonged to the strategic investor Plaza Lotus Group, Kommersant reports. Together with the company, the bank received a reconstruction project for a fashionable hotel of a cultural heritage site - the former building of the Pavlovsky Life Guards regiment's barracks, the former Lenenergo office on Mars Field, 1a in the center of Petersburg.
OOO Lotos Hotels was included in the list of the bank's affiliates in October. As representatives of the bank told the newspaper, 80% of the company's shares were bought by ZPIF under the management of the structure of the bank “St. Petersburg - MC“ BSPB Capital ”. A 20% share was transferred to the bank as a result of negotiations with Plaza Lotus Group for the debts of Lotus Hotels - the bank gained full control over the project.
The original version involved the reconstruction of a historic building with an area of \u200b\u200b24.7 thousand square meters. m for a hotel with 200 rooms. There were other options as well. The last one is LLC “St. Petersburg Architectural Association of L. A. Litvinov”. In this version, the total area of \u200b\u200bthe hotel should be 43.9 thousand square meters. m. It was planned to accommodate 108 rooms, including 16 duplex apartments. On the underground floor there is a cinema, billiards, living room, library, on the first floor there is a bedroom with a dressing room, a dining room and a mini-kitchen, on both tiers there are bathrooms and bathrooms.
In addition, a fitness center with a swimming pool, a hydromassage complex, saunas and a medical office was supposed to be arranged in the basement. Underground parking for 97 cars is designed under all three courtyards.
The project also involved the restoration of the facades, sculptural groups on the attics and the parapet wall, which had been lost in the process of repeated roof repairs.
The approximate volume of investments in the project was initially estimated at 3.5 billion rubles. The bank intends to invest 5 billion rubles and complete the project on its own or attract an investor. Although the project was approved by the Glavgosexpertiza of Russia in December 2016, and a permit for reconstruction was issued in June last year, the final parameters of the project have not yet been determined.
The reconstruction permit is valid until the end of 2022.
According to the newspaper, the bank is currently in litigation with two other structures of the strategic investor Plaza Lotus Group - Plaza Lotus Group LLC and Orange Development JSC, collecting 221.6 million rubles for debts on the project on Primorsky Prospekt. The company also received this site as a target for the construction of a hotel as part of a strategic project.
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This colonnaded building facing the Champ de Mars is the result of the work of two outstanding architects - Yuri Felten and Vasily Stasov.
It should be noted that the first building on this site was the palace of Elizaveta Petrovna. It was within its walls that one of the most famous palace coups was prepared, the result of which was the accession of Elizabeth I. In 1762, after the death of the Empress, the palace went to the treasury, and in 1770 it was completely demolished.
Ten years later, in its place, according to the project of Yuri Felten, a building was erected, which housed the St. Petersburg Orphanage. His wards were the illegitimate descendants of the upper class, as well as the orphaned children of the poor. Two-year-olds were accepted here, who could remain in care until they turned 21. At the Orphanage, in the same building, a safe treasury and a pawnshop were located, which provided funds for the maintenance of the pupils. Two houses were attached to the building, which were located nearby and formed a single architectural complex.
In 1797, the orphans were transferred to another building - on the Moika embankment. The house on the Field of Mars passed into the jurisdiction of the Pavlovsky regiment. The internal premises were not very suitable for accommodating the military, but the reconstruction began only in 1817 under Alexander I. The Emperor commissioned the next reconstruction of the building to the architect Vasily Stasov, who tried to take into account all the needs of the military. In addition to living quarters, laundries, kitchens, smithies, armories were equipped, and stables were located in the courtyard.
The Pavlovsk regiment took an active part in the armed uprising on October 25, 1917, as a result of which the provisional government was overthrown. After the capture of the Winter Palace, the women's battalion of death, which was defending the palace, was placed in the barracks; later it was captured during the assault.
In 1918, the Pavlovsk regiment was disbanded by the decision of the Military Commissariat, and the building stood empty for many years, dilapidated, serving as a shelter for street children. Only 20 years later it was transferred to the Electrotok organization. Not surprisingly, during the blockade, this strategically important facility became one of the main targets of German airstrikes, and was badly damaged by bomb hits.
Immediately after the end of the war, restoration work began, which was completed in 1948. The enterprise "Lenenergo" was located here until 2010, when the building was transferred for reconstruction as a hotel complex.
In 1941, one of the 250-kilogram bombs that hit the Elektrotok building pierced three floors through and through. Sowing inside the building, the bomb "lurked" for an entire hour and a half and exploded only during the sapper work. As a result, 5 people died, and the front facade was strongly bent outward. After the war, during the restoration work, he was "bent" back with the help of 13 jacks.