SOCHI | 2014 Winter Olympics - Federation Island Development News

[DCKL]

I just found this and thought I'd share it with you guys. Seems the Arab world isn't the only place mega artificial island projects are being carried out...

[Business Times Online]

Enter Federation Island, a massive construction that is due to grace the Black Sea waters off Sochi in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Keen to show off its oil-driven wealth, Russia hopes to rival Dubai’s Palm and World artificial islands with the ambitious project.

Seven main islands and a series of smaller ones will imitate that shape of the world’s largest country, complete with luxury villas and cliffside homes, miniature forests and meandering rivers. The complex will have luxury homes, shops and offices over 330 hectares with room to house 25,000 people.

Allied Business Consultants, an Abu Dhabi company, will spend $6.2 billion building Federation Island, which is overseen by M-Industria of St Petersburg.

To design the grandiose project, M-Industria brought in the Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, who is also leading the revamping of Canning Town for the 2012 London Olympics.

The artificial island, which will include the rivers, mountains and plains of Russia’s diverse landscape, will be connected to the shoreline, 300yds away, by a bridge and two tunnels. Once it is completed, it will no longer be necessary to brave -20C temperatures and days-long train rides to visit Russia’s Siberian heartland.

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[sk]

very nice project!
how close to sochi itself will it be?
"Once it is completed, it will no longer be necessary to brave -20C temperatures and days-long train rides to visit Russia’s Siberian heartland".....what do they mean?

[Brad]

"Once it is completed, it will no longer be necessary to brave -20C temperatures and days-long train rides to visit Russia’s Siberian heartland".....what do they mean?Must be a joke)

[wayhigh]

i wwould defenetly want to visit it someday.. amazing project :)

[Alphaville]

Congrats Russia!

This will leave Palm Island for dead; far more tasteful design and seems more subtle; not tacky like Dubai's aspirations.

The 2014 Winter Olympics are going to be fantastic for Russia. I visited Russia (from Irkutsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg) in June 2007 and I remember seeing things about the 2014 bid; I'm glad Sochi won!!

[Second City]

I love how it is shaped like Russia. Amazing idea.

[Sukino]

I love how it is shaped like Russia. Amazing idea.

Yeah, nobody would ever think of that one!

[Second City]

Yeah, nobody would ever think of that one!

Sarcasm....?

[lpioe]

Stunning project :eek:
I also like the idea with the shape of Russia.

[okmijun]

Живео Владимир ПУТИН!!

[fettekatz]

I think that project is disproportionate and extremely exaggerated. Why they don't just build alongside the existant coastline which is already very beautiful. With that 'Russia' island they destroy more than they obtain :ohno:

[Herr Lind]

I think that project is disproportionate and extremely exaggerated. Why they don't just build alongside the existant coastline which is already very beautiful. With that 'Russia' island they destroy more than they obtain :ohno:

You're wrong. That coastline is pretty poor in the urbanisation, so we need some big projects there.

[Mr. Met]

when will construction start, end?

[DCKL]

when will construction start, end?

I have no idea but hopefully soon. I image it must be, seeing as London has already started and our olympics are 2 years before Russias.

[Flamming_Python]

very nice project!
how close to sochi itself will it be?
"Once it is completed, it will no longer be necessary to brave -20C temperatures and days-long train rides to visit Russia’s Siberian heartland".....what do they mean?

There is a Siberian heartland right on the island :banana:

[Dallasbrink]

wow, thats actually better looking then any of that crap in Dubai. At least we know Russia will do it right.

[davee08]

this ranks up the top with probably what doha is conceiving at the moment and it looks damn fine! would they also start building skyscrapers inland to provide a backdrop to the federation island development just hope they don't go overboard like that place called dubai...

[nemtirev]

Шикарный проект.Я выбираю место там где Владивосток.

[SOLOMON]

English please!

Indeed, nice project!

[archy_]

Yeah it is better because it has more greenery than palm islands...

[Raveolution]

copycats and oil bastards ;)

[luci203]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3775/newcoastkk1.jpg

The best part is that mountains will be behind the islans. :cheers:

[OtAkAw]

Nice project, Dubai and Russia have another thing in common, first those shape-shifting towers and now, artificial islands.

[TallBox]

This looks cool - like some kind of dinosaur island. I like it better than the palms or the world.

[Joop20]

How disappointing, I thought this thread would be about the 2014 Winter Olympics developments in Sochi. Instead, it's about another over the top island development. Isn't there plenty of nice coastline in southwestern Russia that could use the money that's going to be put into this development? Or is this a hoax?

[skyboi]

^^ I think so too but then again people sometimes prefer to stay rural , underdeveloped when it comes to modernise the eviroment around them ,maybe this is one of the reasons

[zee]

very nice. but only one road going to it...???

[luci203]

very nice. but only one road going to it...???
The artificial island will be connected to the shoreline, by a bridge and two tunnels.

[JamesFab]

I'm actually expecting that this thread is about the developments in the Sochi Olympic Park... I actually find the design of the structures really amazing especially the Olympic Stadium... Why don't we just talk about Sochi Olympic developments here and not about this Federation Island development...

[JamesFab]

No news about the Sochi Olympics development?

[wiki]

wow, it looks freaking huge and modern.

[Sexas]

Congrats Russia!

This will leave Palm Island for dead; far more tasteful design and seems more subtle; not tacky like Dubai's aspirations.

The 2014 Winter Olympics are going to be fantastic for Russia. I visited Russia (from Irkutsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg) in June 2007 and I remember seeing things about the 2014 bid; I'm glad Sochi won!!

totally agree, this one look 100 times better than the Palm or The World.

[ChapinUrbano]

Mm, interesting development, artificial islands, I would like to see it build.

[poxuy]

Any news??

[Ejdera]

Sochi is the only subtropical and warm city in Russia.You can call it the "Miami" of Russia.

[**RS**]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3775/newcoastkk1.jpg

Awesome renderings. :nuts:I hope it will be built soon!

[goVal]

Amazing project... is there gonna be any highrise or skyscraper in the island?

[Slartibartfas]

I don't belief it until a major load of it is actually finished.

Given the current global crises and given the problems one can hear regarding the olympic real estate developments I am quite skeptical that this project will be ever realized. Of course I can err, but thats my impression so far.

[The other Dude]

didnt they already run out of time?

[Papacu]

copycats and oil bastards ;)

Why copycats? The japanese did it before the Dubai "hey, look at me, I exist" thing.

Search for Kansai Intl Airport and Maishima Sport Island.

http://www.kajima.co.jp/ir/annual/2006/images/domesticoperations1-14.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7796/maishima.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maishima.jpg)


Nice project, Dubai and Russia have another thing in common, first those shape-shifting towers and now, artificial islands.

And Japan, and Taiwan, etc.

[Ganis]

Japan Invented man made islands. And if you want to get technical... America pioneered building out land in New York City and Lower Manhattan.

[hkskyline]

Siemens to build trains for Sochi Olympics - RZhD
29 December 2009

MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - German engineering giant Siemens will build suburban trains for the Russian resort city of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, the head of Russian state railway firm RZhD said on Tuesday.

Sochi needs to build most of the Olympic venues and infrastructure from scratch, and upgrading the city's transport system is crucial to the success of the games.

"We have just signed a contract with Siemens to construct trains for the Olympic railway," Vladimir Yakunin, head of RZhD, told Russian television news channel Vesti-24.

Russia has pledged to spend as much as $12 billion in private and public money on developing the Black Sea resort.

Siemens built Sapsan, Russia's first high-speed train between Moscow and St Petersburg, and won a 30-year, 630 million euro ($907 million) deal to supply and service eight of the trains.

[Gamma-Hamster]

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ru_railway (http://community.livejournal.com/ru_railway/875330.html?#cutid1)

[WiGgLz01]

delightful!