Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Area: 9 900 sqm.
Architect: SPEECH
The New International Convention and Exhibition Centre EXPOFORUM is a modern venue in St. Petersburg to accommodate business, cultural, and entertainment events of any type and size. The project was designed by architectural practice SPEECH, Tchoban & Kuznetsov.
The main purpose of the complex is to combine all the necessary infrastructure for large-scale exhibition and congress events in one place in accordance with international requirements and standards.
The façade glazing is a combination of extremely complicated flat and curved IGUs in JUMBO size with a high performance coated glass, laminated glass and graduated silk-printing with a dot diameter of 1 mm. The curved IGUs are both concave and convex and have stepped edges for Structural bonding to the frame.