The SOM project Talan Towers has won one of six nominations for the Pinnacle Award of Excellence, which is awarded annually to the best objects using natural stone.
Talan Towers, which we already wrote about, won an award in the category "Exterior of a commercial building" for its marble finish. Facades of the building are solved in golden-beige Jurassic marble Maxberg, 15,000 m2 which were produced by the Solnhofen Stone Group.
Talan Towers has become one of those skyscrapers that have changed the face of Astana. Bureau SOM, whose track record is the tallest building in the world - Dubai's Burj Khalifa, designed a "marble" skyscraper in the capital of Kazakhstan from two main volumes: towers with a height of 26 and 30 floors. They are united by a flat three-story "podium" in the form of a parallelepipid on high columns.
Talan Towers' key tenant is the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain. The complex will also include non-hotel apartments, a business center, fitness room, spa, boutiques and restaurants.
Pinnacle Award was established in the USA in 2002. It is awarded by The Natural Stone Institute MIA + BSI and is composed of representatives from 55 countries. An international jury annually selects six of the best architectural and design objects that use natural stone. The awards are given in the nominations "Restoration", "Exterior and interior of residential buildings", "Exterior of a commercial building", "Interior of a commercial building", as well as for the most successful solution of kitchen and bathroom interiors.
Solnhofen Stone Group Is a German holding company that owns four modern stone processing plants and numerous own quarries of Jura marble and Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria.
Solnhofen Stone Group supplies its products all over the world: London, Berlin, Dubai, etc. In Moscow, Jurassic marble Maxberg - a trademark of SSG - can be seen, for example, on the facades of the objects "Garden Quarters", "Italian Quarters", Barkli Virgin House, "Andreevsky House" on Frunzenskaya, "House on Trubetskoy", "Cherry Garden" on Malaya Serpukhovskaya Square, in the Sky-Light business center on Leningradsky Prospekt.