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Mercury City Tower

Moscow, Russia

The 101st tallest building in the world

338.8 m · 1,112 ft

Mercury City Tower is a supertall skyscraper located on plot 14 in the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), in Moscow, Russia. Occupying a total area of 173,960 square metres (1, 872, 500 ft2), the mixed-use building houses offices, apartments, a fitness center, and retail stores. Rising 338.8 m (1, 112 ft) tall, the Mercury City Tower was formerly the tallest building of Russia and Europe, having surpassed the Moscow Tower of the neighboring City of Capitals complex (also in the MIBC) as the tallest of Russia and The Shard in London as Europe's tallest building. The Mercury City Tower kept this record from late 2012 to the summer of 2014, in which it was surpassed by the South Tower of the neighboring OKO complex (also on the MIBC) as the tallest building in Russia and Europe. Currently, it is the fifth-tallest building in Europe.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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