Triumph Palace (russian: Триу́мф-Пала́с,
transliterated
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as ''Triumf Palas'') is the tallest
apartment building
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in
Moscow
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and all of Europe. It is sometimes called the
Eighth Sister The Eighth Sister is the unbuilt project for a skyscraper in Zaryadye, Moscow. It would have been the eighth sister to the group of Stalinist skyscrapers known as Seven Sisters. The architect was Dmitry Chechulin.
Original 1947 plans included an ...
because it is similar in appearance to the
Seven Sisters[''Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures'', Routledge, 2009, se]
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through the 1950s. Construction began in 2001 and was completed in 2006.
The 57- storey building, containing about 1,000 luxury apartments , was topped out on 20 December 2003, making it Europe's[ and Russia's tallest skyscraper at until the inauguration in 2007 of Moscow's 268-metre ]Naberezhnaya Tower
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Triumph Palace is featured in detail in the 2009 Channel 4
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series '' Vertical City'' (series 1, episode 8).
See also
*List of skyscrapers
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see '' List of tallest buildings and structu ...
* List of skyscrapers in Europe
References
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{{Buildings in Europe timeline
Apartment buildings
Residential skyscrapers in Moscow
Buildings and structures completed in 2006