Building of the Main Media Center in Sochi

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The building of the Main Media Center in the city of Sochi was erected in the Imereti lowland. Its main purpose was to receive 15,000 journalists during the Olympic Games, provide them with jobs and unimpeded broadcasting of information to the whole world. After the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games, the building was converted into a huge shopping center for shoppers. This is the largest facility in the region, which is designed to work in the field of entertainment and recreation.

Customer and contractor of a large construction project

Center Omega OJSC was the customer for the construction of a large Olympic facility. Inzhtransstroy Corporation LLC and Bridges and Tunnels LLC, respectively, acted as the general contractor and subcontractor.

Construction of the Main Media Center in Sochi began in early 2011 and lasted a little over a year. Completing work in February next year.

Architectural features of the Media Center in Sochi

The construction of the main media center in Sochi began 4 years before the start of the international sports games. It opened its doors a month before the start of the Olympics in Russia. He worked around the clockmode, and were in it at the same time up to 15 thousand journalists gathered from all over the globe.

Such a huge number of guests were accommodated comfortably on all three floors of the building, in several dozen rooms. The architects tried to arrange the rooms so that journalists would not interfere with each other while working.

On the second floor of the building were representatives of TV and radio companies, as well as journalists from newspapers and magazines. On the ground floor, a kitchen and office space were organized. The top floor went to the maintenance staff of the building.

The chief engineer of the construction site shared with journalists information that in order to organize the trouble-free operation of all engineering communications in the Main Media Center of the city of Sochi, a tremendous amount of work was done to test complex engineering systems. The employees had to carry out comprehensive tests of such systems necessary for the normal operation of the facility as:

1. Water supply.
2. Heat energy.
3. Electrical equipment.

The object is also notable for the fact that it uses the most modern technologies for energy and water saving.

Remodeling of the building after the Olympics

After the end of the Olympic Games in our country, it was decided to turn the Main Media Center in Sochi into a shopping center. After reconstruction, it became the largest object of trade in the surrounding regions. Shops opened inside the center selling:

• household appliances;
• furniture;
• food;
• clothes;
• sports goods;
• furnishing items.

Huge halls on the second floor in the Main Media Center of Sochi were converted into cinema halls, a restaurant complex for shopping center visitors was located in the central zone. Convenient parking lots for 2.5 thousand cars have been organized near the building.

Features of the object

The main media center in Sochi became a legacy of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The huge building, which occupies 20 hectares, exceeded the size of Red Square in Moscow by 7 times.

During its work as one of the Olympic venues, more than two thousand journalists and more than 6.5 thousand television and radio broadcasters have visited the building.

Address

Address of the Main Media Center in Sochi: Adler district, Imeretinskaya lowland, Olympiyskiy prospect, building 1.

Opened on January 7, 2014, the radio and TV broadcasting center covered events taking place at the International Winter Sports Games.

The total area of the premises is about 155 thousand square meters. The building was built on the territory bordering the Olympic Park.