Recently, we featured Erick van Egeraat’s Chess-club Building in the Khanti-Mansiysk autonomous region, which officially opened on Dec. 7th. Now, we are highlighting Egeraat’s Vershina Trade & Entertainment Centre which officially opened on the same day. The 37.000 sq. meter, state-of-the-art trade and entertainment centre in Surgut, Russia offers space for retail, extreme sports, dance, restaurants, bars and an underground night club. The eight-story venue provides round-the-clock activities for visitors of all ages. The dialectic play of light and dark, night and day form the basis for the concept. More images and architect’s description after the break.
“When I presented the first sketch for the trade and entertainment centre the response was amazement. Now, when the project is completed, it’s my turn to be amazed. I am proud to have achieved this for the city of Surgut”, says Erick van Egeraat.
The building is equipped with an extensive lighting scheme. Motion advertisements are projected onto the glazed façade. The volume is cut to form “sharp volumes” allowing daylight to enter deep into the centre. At night they radiate lines of light via secondary cuts in the façade. It transforms into a beacon of light in the predominantly dark winters of the Siberian province.
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
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- level 00 plan
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- level 01 plan
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- level 02 plan
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- level 02M plan
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- level 03 plan
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- level 04 plan
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- level 05 plan
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- level 06 plan
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- level 07 plan
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- section 01
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- section 02
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- section 03
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- section 04
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- east elevation
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- west elevation
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- north elevation
I thought it was a Liberskind building when I had the first look at this project.
the end product is way different from the rendering of it except the form…
it’s because russian contractors always running the site them-own way… normally thay have not too mach respect to project…
Floor plans are not efficient enough for retail… Most of the photos are night shots, during the day the building mass looks gloomy. The level of details (as you can see on some pictures) is pretty low. But this is probably poor contractor’s job. Overall not very impressing projects (not to mention those ugly Soviet style buildings on the background)