July 14, 2014. Russian Copper Company, one of Russia's top three copper manufacturers, began putting up its headquarters in Yekaterinburg. The world-renowned Foster+Partners was invited to create the architectural design, the company reports.
The company presented the project at the industrial exhibition Innoprom.
Quite remarkably, this is going to be Forster+Partners' very first project to be implemented in Russia. As for the post-Soviet territory, Forster+Partners, founded and chaired by Lord Forster, built a number of facilities in the Republic of Kazakhstan, for example, Khan Shatyr Shopping & Entertainment Center in Astana (it was completed in 2010 and is now the world's highest tent) and the Peace & Reconciliation Palace that was put up in Astana in 2004.
Copper was the overarching theme for the design of Russian Copper Company's head office, for it is copper that the company primarily deals in. For one, the pattern of a copper atom was used as the basis for the facade of the would-be HQ. Copper colors are also intensely present in the design.