Sea facade of St. Petersburg

Authors
A. Skokan, R. Baishev, V. Kanyashin, M. Skorokhod, S. Kaverina, M. Moseshvili, A. Tairova

With the assistance of
K. Berdnikova, G. Chertanov, T. Khvorostyanyy, D. Кlymenicheva, D. Kodichev, A. Kudimov, A. Smirnov

Address
Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, territory of Nevskaya guba, Finsky Bay, west of Vasilievsky island, blocks #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9

Start
2015

During its history the city of Saint-Petersburg was winning more and more lands from the sea. This process continues up to the present time. It might be easily supposed that the whole Neva Bay as far as the Saint-Petersburg Dam will transform into inner basin of the city and the further land reclamation will be limited only by ecological reasons and navigable channels. That’s why today's seafront as the former one could be considered as a mere episode in the city history. 

The face of long 24 meters high building meeting the arriving sea travellers serves as a “sea façade”. It is a rhythmic paraphrase of the Palace Embankment architectural design. The Saint Petersburg port area being an undoubted compositional core of new reclaimed land presents at the same time a closed restricted area. Therefore the townsmen could get the sea shore by the seaside boulevard extended with 300 m long pier and leading to the beautificated embankment. Residential buildings looking like cruise ships in section, are “moored” to a “façade wall” from south side and form an enfilade of open and close yard areas.