Triumph Place
Moscow, Russia

HEIGHT: 264m/867 feet
FLOORS: 54 floors
COMPLETION: 2005
ARCHITECT:?

Triumph-Palace was topped out on December 20 2003, making it the tallest skyscraper in Europe, surpassing Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt.
The spire is 48,3 m tall and is divided into 3000 pieces with a total weight of 52 tonnes.
Second tallest residential building in the world, the tallest is the 21st Century Tower in Dubai (269 m).

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Pics by ulex:
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HUGE!!!!!!
9/10

Its like a palace-skyscraper

really one of a kind

not so keen on the facade but for the overall impression it definitely its landmark material and draws your eyes skywards.

8/10

please remove it. facing is not yet completed so you can't judge good it or bad.

Since we don't want any building to be "down-voted" because it's not fully completed, I will close this thread until new pics of the fully completed tower can be found. Pieces of facade and windows are still missing. I was too fast with this poll, but I won't delete it since it's quite a big job to make new thread, renumber other buildings and update the list (300 buildings!). I hope all you voters out there understand, but you are all welcome back when the thread is open again! :)

OK, here we go again. Rate on!

Definetly good! 8.5/10

Very nice building! 9/10 :)

Very imposing, reeks of Russia. Looks like Stalin's towers rather than the futuristic IBC towers. 8.5

Wow its sooooo wide i like it you wouldent think all the apartments would have windows or maby there really big 10/10 i like it

I loved it in person, when I saw it in June 2006!
9/10
:okay:

imo, though it looks fat, it has this appearance that makes it look like a sign of a strong and wealthy empire, a 9.5/10 for that.

wow I'm a big fan, 8/10

great tower, i love this fat base 8.5/10

It's impressive because it's really big ;) But I don't like its architecture - IMO it's just a bad copy of old, stalinist skyscrapers... 6,5/10

Beaut. 10.

Any new pictures?

no

BIG, very big...8/10;)

9/10 Very impressive and mighty building, gives you a strong feeling of 'wow' when seeing it... I like it

wow amazing 10/10

10/10

7/10

..

Moscow has a lot of these buildings...but I love them all. 9/10

9.5/10

huge unique building
10/10

8/10

8.5/10

Really beautiful. Overwhelming and I love the attention to detail.

10

9/10

8.5

This building reminds me of a snowy peak, which is pretty fitting considering Moscow's winter climate. Although it's bulky, it's actually imposing in a good way. But I think the brown and white colors of the facade just doesn't get along with each other well.

7

7.5/10

That is massive. So big and it looks very powerful.

reminds me of this building in Warsaw Poland

http://www.jpforms.net/gallery/photos/Poland/Warsaw/Images/Hotel%20&%20Surroundings/0270_1%20Warsaw%20tower%20Culture%20Science%20050521.jpg

:shocked::eek2: This building is beutiful I put 10 for it, Moscow is having more wonderful buildings, yera by year Moscow is building more and more buildings like the Fderation Tower.

:cheers::cheers1: FOR MOSCOW

9/10
Really good!

9/10

amazing!! huge...! beutiful., tall.. 9.5

OK, I voted 10/10, but on a second thought I'd give it 9.5 or 9/10... better is always possible. For example, the spire is a bit plain to my taste.

Anyway, this building is a great one, and a very good for Moscow in particular.

I wish there were another sister-like scraper built on the Moscow river bank on Krymskaja embarkment on the site where now the modern branch of the State Tretjakov Gallery is located (near Krymskij Bridge).

10/10.

9/10

Awesome!

10 / 10

10/10

7.5/10

From the far distance it looks very ok, but at the close range it's terrible, those ugly windows - 6

I usually dont like this bombastic kind of towers, but it is truly massive! 8/10

9.5/10 i love it

9.5/10

A cool remake of those old classics... It's freaking huge and the top is quite pretty too... I'd love to see some interior pics of the finished building !

8/10

Not my cup of tea, but it is certainly "imposing". 6.5

Great building with a typically russian style. But I still prefer the 50s highrises (Seven sisters) over this one.

8.5/10.0

8/10

8/10 !

Really fits in well with the city. This is what I ocnsider a successful attempt at pastiche architecture. 8/10

It just copies palaces from the age of Joseph Stalin and I think it does it quite badly. 6,5.

From the far distance it looks very ok, but at the close range it's terrible, those ugly windows - 6
They are not finished - they all shoud be brown like in old 7 sisters, white stripes are protective film.

Massive, overwhelming, kitschy, reminds me of old times

6

8/10

9/10 :lol:

9/10

7/10

Strange building :)

I like it ,its huge and really an eyecatcher not your typical skyscraper though ,but thats not important 8.5/10

8/10 I really like socrealistic architecture and the building is in this style, despite of it's new. I only dislike the colors.

9/10

Among the great ones.

this seems like one that you either love or hate
4/10

6/10

3/10, not a skyscraper

3/10, not a skyscraper

First of all, if you don't consider it a skycraper, DON'T rate it.

By rating it 3/10, you're in effect saying that it IS a skycraper but an ugly one.

Secondly, it IS a skyscraper and it's not ugly. It deserves a rating better than 3/10.

Finally, Melbourne is NOT the most livable city in the world.

I like the overall design and massive scale of this building. But the details are somewhat mediocre.

6.5 / 10

8.5/10

wonderful and majestic looking building! too bad the colours are a little off

8/10 aren't there other buildings from Russia that look similar?

9 out of 10

Its outstanding. Not the usual box tower, it has some character I rarely see in skyscrapers.

7/10
it's very huge

Nice tower. But its very big, so it doesn't look that high. I didn't know it is a top 100 (in height) tower...
7/10

9/10
Imposing and, um, very muscovite. I wouldn't mind living in it.

9/10
Imposing and, um, very muscovite. I wouldn't mind living in it.

what does "being very muscovite" entail?

a native or resident of the ancient principality of Moscow or of the city of Moscow or a colorless to pale brown form of mica consisting of a silicate of aluminum and potassium........pick one mr. personality....:ohno:

i like it.....it's DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!!! it seems very eastern european...8

I like those setbacks. 8/10

Amazing structure. 9/10

8/10.

7/10 for being truly massive, and for that only. A pale pretentious copy of 'seven sisters'.

Some additional photos

15.10.2006 Триумф Палас и Аэробус

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/aleksey-kuznetsow/PA150002.jpg

Красотищеее!!!
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/188/71309497tx6.jpg

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8673/68427226ok1.jpg

It is not Stalinist architecture! It is Modern Art

PS - Stalinist architecture is not beautyful?

Kitsch and tall
5/10

7 - It's big but not my type.

It's not the second tallest residential scraper any longer but it certainly grabs one's attention due to it's 'bulk'.
7/10.

I Like it but it doesn't look like more than 200 metres on first view:)

9/10. It's HUGe residentia.

Real palace, 9/10

9/10

We think (The Repuvlic is a group) that the building talk about his country, but the same look a little old, like a building of 40's. Give us the impression that Russia is the same Russia, all the time, all the years and ages.

6.5/10.

only 5
it is an imitation of old good Moscow skyscrapers form the fifties
and those colored glass details look really bad
it gives an impression of being made of plastic
i hope they will remove those colors fom the windows and balconies one day
it would look really great if it was only white
the structure is really amaizing but they ruined everything with those multicolored details
i see it white with just simple transparent glass and one dark color of windows frames

8/10

IT IS MODERN ART!!!! DONT STALINIST!

We think (The Repuvlic is a group) that the building talk about his country, but the same look a little old, like a building of 40's. Give us the impression that Russia is the same Russia, all the time, all the years and ages.

6.5/10.
True, this building looks like one of the Stalin sisters. But here in Moscow there are many different buildings :) not only old, but the modern ones too. The most modern supertalls are buing constructed in Moscow now. Moscow always looks young, that's why you are right saying '',,, the same all the time, all the years and ages'' - it means that it is always young :)
If you don't believe - look at this. Judge Russia looking at this new skyscrapers not aT old buildings
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4774/30158182gu8.jpg

9/10

looks like others in Moscow - I guess that was the point.

I just love those above :)

Awesome tower! A great addition to the other 7.

Beautiful

10

Big! 8/10

wow, wow and WOW Buckingham Palace meets Empire State Building 10/10

ugly, doesn't even look like a skyscraper. what they are building in moscow city are skyscrapers.

i got to watch them build this bitch, my mate lived in the little apartment building next to it, so i got to see it go up every couple of weeks.

i don't know why build something liek this, it looks like it was built in the 50's like all the other 7 lenin's wedding cakes.

cheers

i don`t like it 4/10

8/10

HUGE and nice,8.5/10

7/10

I like this one. something different.

looks great at night.

10/10

9 - very Russian :)

10/10

9.5/10 Massive

excellent as a big expresion of de constructist architecture 10

6,5/10 I prefer old "seven sisters"

Does anyone know how many windows has this building? ;)
7.5/10

a huge block only 5.

7/10

7/10

Mixed feelings on this one, it is very massive (which is impressive), but the facade looks too cheap.

It is very massive and beautiful. It looks like Chrysler building on steroids. 10/10

looks like an ancient building... not that modern... but looks very good... 7/10

tall but too massive 7/10

8.5/10 a good link with the past

8/10 - friggin' huge. could you imagine playing ultimate hide-and-go seek in there? :D

By night this building looks really amazing 9,5/10

I don't like it much bc it's old... 6/10

3/10

5/10

HUGE!! but not pretty. 8/10

i don't like the top... it reminds me of a mormon church... less than three!

10/10.

4/10

Too gigantic. 7/10.

Awesome!!!!

10/10

The materials look very cheap and I do not like the proportions. 5/10.

what a pompous monster...

4/10

this building is f amazing!!!

9/10

Definetly good! 9.5/10

iconic but short and old 6

10/10 This building rocks

communist concrete lavish:) I don't like it. It's almost identical like PKiN in Warsaw. 3/10

5/10

9/10

Master piece 9/10

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1491375628_31a8bebc7c_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2383/1490519741_8cc8570351_b.jpg

(Flickr, by Velocityzen)

8/10

6/10

1/10

6/10

7.5 / 10

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8/10

5/10

How can you not love this. The architect put a lot of thought into what would fit well into the area. 10/10.

10/10

8/10

Soooooo beautiful...

9,5

7/10

10/10

9/10

6/10
huge but ugly --'

Beautiful !

7.5/10

7/10

9/10 impresionante

9/10

I don´t know why but I don´t like this building at all .... it´s too big, and seriously Moscow has already enough buildings like this one which were build over 30 years ago.... 4/10

9/10

I like how wide it is

9/10. moscow's best skyscraper so far.

10. Excellent building. Regards.

9.5/10

7/10

9/10

8/10

reminds me http://www.elektroinstalacje.pl/psoma/UserFiles/Image/palac_kultury.jpg
which i don't reallly like. 3

9/10

Stalinist fantasy. 3

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1491375628_31a8bebc7c_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2383/1490519741_8cc8570351_b.jpg

(Flickr, by Velocityzen)

9.5/10

10/10

9/10

http://nfocus.ru/images/3552031lar.jpg

10/10

10/10 ! :)

Some of my pics:

http://s39.radikal.ru/i086/0912/d3/d87b211c80bc.jpg

http://i004.radikal.ru/0912/95/a2e11dca8269.jpg

http://i072.radikal.ru/0912/ef/2791efdfaa3f.jpg

http://i027.radikal.ru/0912/b1/87d87407d9d3.jpg

And more

http://s55.radikal.ru/i149/0912/a7/e8e95bb38491.jpg

http://s39.radikal.ru/i085/0912/31/f4eeb4ddcbf1.jpg

http://s49.radikal.ru/i125/0912/37/fc3dfed5e872.jpg

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^^ Massive!
9/10

PERFECT!! 9

6/10

It's alright, I'm not a fan of the Stalinist layout though
7/10

7.5/10

Excellent and imposing, looks like Moscow State University building and a few other old goverment buildings. It's nice to see styles still being used and developed that are unique to the location, rather than opting for a generic style that you could find anywhere. It maintains the unique character of a city. 9/10.

voted 9/10

It should be taller, still it's a classic.

7

8.5/10 for me

8.5/10

6/10

:)

8.5/10

It's impressive because it's really big ;) But I don't like its architecture - IMO it's just a copy of old, stalinist skyscrapers... 6,5/10

And this architecture is very good!!!! 8.5/10.

8/10 :)

Worth a healthy 7.5 out of 10.

7/10. Don`t like such huge buildings.

7/10

6/10

6/10

10/10

Very Russian 8.5/10

8.5/10

Magnificent. It really is like a palace.

I prefer slick thin buildings, but it has a nice ancient touch to it.
6/10

8/10

its ok 7/10

9/10

9/10

9/10

8/10

As for me, too massive and sloppy 6/10

8/10

7.5/10

10/10 One of a kind...only in Moscow :)

beautiful

5/10

8/10

Building upon the Soviet Theme is an excellent idea. It will continue to set Moscow apart as unique and creative.

5/10

...9...10! :)

7/10 :)

8/10

8/10

9/10 massive building

looks nice but somehow weird!

7/10

8/10

9/10...:)

10/10

5/10

classic 7

6.5/10

8/10

I would give a 9/10 if it was build in the 50's ... but to think that it was completed in 2006 makes it a 3/10 for me :)

7/10 not my kind of building but it does looks good

9/10

8.5/10 magnificent

7.5/10

7/10 from MEDAN, INDONESIA

6,5/10

Very ugly 4/10 :puke:

9/10 somehow I like the Sowjet style buildings

wow

10/10

8.5/10 from me :)

6.0

8/10