Yandex Headquarters
An exterior construction view of the Yandex Headquarters by PLP Architecture, illustrating complex structural steel roof geometry and curtain wall installation over a sprawling multi-story floorplate.
- What we like about this project
- The dramatic central dip in the roof geometry creates a distinctive saddle-like profile across the massive spans.
Materials
- steel
- glass
- concrete
- snow
Visual identifiers
- steel-truss-roof
- curtain-wall
- construction-cranes
- undulating-roofline
Style tags
- high-tech
- contemporary
- megastructure
Visual tags
- under-construction
- corporate-headquarters
- megastructure
- winter-context
- steel-structure
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped massing featuring a prominent central trough beneath complex, sweeping steel roof trusses.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with partial blue protective cladding.
- Structural guess
- Steel space-frame roof trusses atop concrete core and steel frame superstructure.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; a multi-story headquarters dwarfing several large tower cranes.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight under a partly cloudy winter sky, casting soft shadows across the snowy foreground and steel superstructure.
- Atmosphere
- Cold, expansive, and industrial against a serene wintry background.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a flat, snow-covered open field or parkland with bare winter trees along the perimeter.
- Spatial experience
- The vast skeletal scale and multiple towering construction cranes emphasize a massive corporate campus emerging at the edge of a winter landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor slab layers interrupted by vertical mullions and dramatic diagonal roof trusses.
- Style reading
- High-tech contemporary corporate mega-project
- Program
- Corporate headquarters and office complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- steel, glass, concrete, snow
- Visual identifiers
- steel-truss-roof, curtain-wall, construction-cranes, undulating-roofline
- Style tags
- high-tech, contemporary, megastructure
- Visual tags
- under-construction, corporate-headquarters, megastructure, winter-context, steel-structure
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped massing featuring a prominent central trough beneath complex, sweeping steel roof trusses.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with partial blue protective cladding.
- Structural guess
- Steel space-frame roof trusses atop concrete core and steel frame superstructure.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; a multi-story headquarters dwarfing several large tower cranes.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight under a partly cloudy winter sky, casting soft shadows across the snowy foreground and steel superstructure.
- Atmosphere
- Cold, expansive, and industrial against a serene wintry background.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a flat, snow-covered open field or parkland with bare winter trees along the perimeter.
- Spatial experience
- The vast skeletal scale and multiple towering construction cranes emphasize a massive corporate campus emerging at the edge of a winter landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor slab layers interrupted by vertical mullions and dramatic diagonal roof trusses.
- Style reading
- High-tech contemporary corporate mega-project
- Program
- Corporate headquarters and office complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture