Dear office must meet certain criteria - first and foremost, is the location of the main thoroughfares and squares, with easy access, an individual (the author) a project with high quality exterior finishing materials, interior custom-made tenant, be sure to availability of parking. Meets all these requirements for office buildings in Moscow can count on one hand, most are unique in architectural and construction solutions. "Fit" home in a small space of the existing historical building only by the companies owning the most advanced technology and advanced building technologies, and they should say, until a little.

Of the unfinished concrete boxes of low buildings, near Ostozhenka, the music played on the mesh fence surrounding the construction site of a fairly clean, hung a shield with the name of the builder GVA Sawyer. On the first floor near the entrance to the future of the future Hall visitors met the girl, the representative of the company, enthusiastically talking about the future of beauty. From the second floor, still with no windows, a view of the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Croatian Embassy. The picture - a modern three-storey house, faced with granite, harmonious in color with standing around the buildings. The new office center Kesko House. What can happen? Who settled in the historical center of town? Do not upset the architectural appearance and infrastructure of the area? With this issue, we asked the CEO of GVA Sawyer, Cameron F. Sawyer (the company is working on the Russian market for 10 years. In its asset such completed projects as "Alekseevskii House" - class A office building, Ostozhenka, 28, House on Bernikovskoy waterfront and other objects).

The presentation so inspired by this article that the next day he met with Mr. Sawyer in the House on Bernikovskoy "- in the office.

- Mr. Sawyer, you build only office buildings?

- Build in Moscow, we started with a residential real estate. Our first project (while we were still working in the joint venture "Restructuring") - a residential complex Setun "at the Minsk highway. We are now in office construction, though, in principle, we are a company universal - build and hotels, and offices, and housing, not only in Moscow. In the near future, perhaps, will even commercial properties.

- Your company specializes in building real estate class, sooner or later the market was saturated, not whether you plan to build facilities "simple"?

- In fact, construction of roads and mass properties - they are two different businesses, and each has its own art. Experience shows that those who are used to build anything in the mass of real estate, it is very difficult to pass on the construction of the elite: there completely different parameters, different values and strategy. In contrast, the success of mass construction - this is also a kind of art, which we do not understand why we are dealing only with expensive property. As for the prospects of the market - we appreciate them as very good. Every course is completely natural and downs, and downs in demand. This is normal. But long-term outlook is good, because the real estate of such a class is not enough.

For example, we expect that our last child of Kesko House will be rented before the end of the summer (preference for one tenant - overseas mission or a major Russian company). Until the end of September will be finished building, and then agreeing internal layout with the tenant, we will gradually begin to do interior design.

- Please tell us the background to the appearance of this building?

- Land on which the building is constructed, we found a very long time. In today's rush around Ostozhenka we have not received it, because all the sites in this region allocated for housing, and there crazy prices. We bought the former office building, demolished it, buy out the city on the added square meters, and, thus, have the right to build.

- How is it there are places under construction in the center?

- Get place for construction in Moscow is very difficult, and has recently become even more complicated. Now the city is a complex system of trading and investment contracts: The process is very opaque, incomprehensible, and we increasingly believe that specially made so that it was difficult to obtain land in Moscow. As elsewhere, there are primary and secondary markets. Even if we consider only the primary market (ie, state), then in this segment there are 20 different levels, which have the right to grant the site.

Almost as difficult and approval of the architectural appearance of the building (project Kesko Hausa placed together c architectural firm "Ostozhenka led by Skokan." Ostozhenka "has done and the draft Opera House for the Center Vishnevskaya. Generally, the appearance of the area is maintained in the same style, and hopefully that the new office center harmoniously fit into a modernized, but retaining its historic character Ostozhenka).

Here we have to take a few instances - Architectural Board, the administration of historic monuments. In areas of historic buildings they determine what to build, not to destroy the look of the street and the area in general.

- Whether the construction of offices linked to the Master Plan?

- Any construction associated with the General Plan of the city, so any object, even temporarily, in the first place to get a paper saying that the city is nothing against the fact that this place is a construction project on a certain destination. This authorization is issued by Institute of General Plan.

- Do you think, does not go there now redesigning the center of the housing in the office?

- I think it would be wrong, and no such movement. On the contrary, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has repeatedly stated that we should stop building new office buildings in the center that he should remain residential. However, I believe that the strict limits - this is also wrong - the offices, of course, in the center needed, but they need to build in such an amount that does not strongly alter the proportion of administrative and residential buildings. Center of Moscow is unique, and its historical appearance can not be changed.

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When designing Kesko Hausa architects were limited to a given height of the building, so over the land are only three floors, one floor of the building - the basement (ground) and one underground. As a result, the total area of the building, occupying a very small area, amounted to 4293 square meters. On the ground floor and basement level parking provides accommodation for 38 cars, a variety of business premises. On the first basement floor may even hosted a small gym.