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Federation Tower: Europe's Tallest BuildingThe developer for a skyscraper billed as Europe's tallest says that state of the art construction and design methods will make it safe from plane attacks similar to those that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.
The futuristic, glass-clad Federation Tower will house offices, a hotel and luxury apartments along the Moscow river in a western region of the Russian capital.
Its twin, sail-like towers - the tallest of which will be 340 meters - are attached to a central 430-meter stiletto-like spire.
In western Europe, the tallest building is Frankfurt's 260-meter Commerzbank tower.
"The pillars would cut through the plane, and that is all," said Sergei Polonsky, president of Mirax Group, describing the building's resilience to a September 11-style attack.
"Regardless of how many planes hit it, it won't fall down," he said, standing in the shadow of one of the partially completed, reinforced concrete pillars ringing the perimeter of tower B, the smaller of the two.
A recent event saw the official presentation of the big name contractors that will work on the Federation project by Mirax.
They include construction manager Turner Construction, a division of the New York headquartered high-rise construction specialists, structural engineers Thornton-Tomasetti , ThyssenKrupp AG's
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