Ferrum 1 Saint Petersburg Offices, Teorema Building, Polustrovo Commercial Property, Architect News
Ferrum 1, Saint Petersburg
18 August 2021
The first building in Russia constructed with Corten steel
Architect: Sergei Tchoban of TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten
Location: Sverdlovskaya Naberezhnaya, 44 B, Block 16, 195027 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Ferrum 1 business centre in Polustrovo, Saint Petersburg

Photos by Ilya Ivanov
Ferrum 1, St Petersburg Building
The office building Ferrum 1 (Block 16) stands on the historic site of the former Rossiya factory in St Petersburg’s Polustrovo district. Situated on the right bank of the Neva opposite the Smolny Cathedral, a palace for Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko was built on the site at the end of the 18th century according to the designs of the Italian architect and painter Giacomo Quarenghi in the middle of a spacious park. For years, this country house was a centre of social life.
In the late 19th century, the park was a popular recreation and health resort for the upper classes of St Petersburg. On the border between the former garden of the palace and today’s Piskarevsky Prospekt used to stand the summer house rented by the family of the famous Russian art theorist and painter Alexander Benois in 1877/78 and 1882. In 1911, in the course of the “industrialisation of the entire country”, the Rossiya Machine Works occupied large parts of the site as factory premises and built production facilities, wareh...