Address: Sverdlovskaya Naberezhnaya, 44 B, Block 16, 195027 Saint Petersburg, Russia Client: Teorema (Business Park Polustrovo Ltd), Saint Petersburg GFA: 7,965.00 sqm Completion date: 08/2021 Service stages: 1-8 (Façades and foyers) Architect: Sergei Tchoban Project Manager: Valeria Kashirina Team: Severin Burr, René Hoch, Natalia von Kruechten, Puk Paludan, Evgenia Sulaberidze General contractor: Teorema (Business Park Polustrovo Ltd.), St. Petersburg Project management: Teorema (Business Park Polustrovo Ltd.), Saint Petersburg Landscaping: Teorema (Business Park Polustrovo Ltd.), Saint Petersburg Structural engineering: Nord Fassade, St. Petersburg Corten steel: SSAB, Saint Petersburg Windows/doors: Guardian Glass, Moscow Aluminum frames: Reynaers, Saint Petersburg Lifts: Mac Puar S.A, Moscow Assembly lifts: Schtihmas, Saint Petersburg Photographer: Ilya Ivanov The office building Ferrum 1 (Block 16) stands on the historic site of the former Rossiya factory in St Petersburg's Polustrovo district. Situated on the right bank of the Neva opposite the Smolny Cathedral, a palace for Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko was built on the site at the end of the 18th century according to the designs of the Italian architect and painter Giacomo Quarenghi in the middle of a spacious park. For years, this country house was a centre of social life. In the late 19th century, the park was a popular recreation and health resort for the upper classes of St Petersburg. On the border between the former garden of the palace and today's Piskarevsky Prospekt used to stand the summer house rented by the family of the famous Russian art theorist and painter Alexander Benois in 1877/78 and 1882. In 1911, in the course of the "industrialisation of the entire country", the Rossiya machine factory occupied large parts of the site as factory premises and built production facilities, warehouses and administrative buildings. The former garden area was lost. The factory was closed down a long time ago, and the buildings, which were erected in the course of the factory's expansion (some of them still unfinished), stood empty and began to decay. For more than ten years now, the former industrial site has been undergoing extensive redevelopment under the direction of the development company Teorema. In the course of this,