kiev, Ukraine

Mixed use Tower in Kiev

Il Ponte

Lainati Alessandro, Nicholas Bewick, Stefano Colombo

Il Ponte. Connecting the future.

Kiev is rapidly becoming one of the most important centres of Eastern Europe, as it embraces the evolution and opportunities of local and international business development in response to political, social and cultural change.

Much of the success of this transformation will be driven by the improvement and quality of the city’s infrastructure. At the moment the existing 4 bridges that connect the rapidly developing east bank with the city centre in the west are no longer able to meet the present and future traffic needs. Therefore, the construction of a major new road, and bridge system that crosses the Dnieper river, from the south east will create a key entry axis and will be recognised as a landmark for Kiev and its citizens.

IL PONTE is a visionary response to this initiative; its attraction is a development that is totally integrated into this key transport junction with the added opportunity to build a symbolic gateway structure for the city that has outstanding views to its principal historic monuments.

Project composition. The need to accommodate up to 4000 parking spaces within a compact site has created an extensive island podium which rises above the surrounding rail and road systems. On top of this elevated platform is a continuous garden terrace dedicated to enhancing social contact and circulation between the offices and hotel tower above. This extensively landscaped base is enclosed with a transparent roof membrane that forms a series of atriums, providing a year-round micro-climate, and a reduction in heating and cooling requirements for the surrounding buildings.

The office spaces are a continuous ribbon of 15m wide flexible floor plates which reflect European workplace norms for daylight and ventilation and have been positioned to respond to the site’s orientation and privileged views.

The hotel tower is designed with a triangulated plan and faceted geometry, it represents a truly contemporary symbol for the whole development. As a luxury hotel with a roof top sky garden its 160 m height provides guests with some of the most beautiful views of the entire city and river below. The tower sits above a vibrant hive of supporting amenities that include, shopping, restaurants and cafes and conference centre that will make IL PONTE a major destination for the whole country. Although the overall site and its ex-industrial surroundings have few inherent qualities, the project presents an opportunity to improve conditions and in particular make connections with the river and the adjacent lake. It is therefore planned to restore the inland waterway providing a clean reservoir for recreation but most importantly to create a pedestrian link from the nearby railway station. As the whole area develops it is expected that the Dnieper riverbanks will also be re-landscaped to reflect the importance of the area’s integration into the whole city landscape.

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Mixed use Tower in Kiev