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 MOSCOW (AP) - The developer for a Moscow skyscraper billed as Europe's tallest vowed Wednesday that state-of-the-art construction and design methods would make it safe from terrorist airplane attacks like those that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.
The futuristic, glass-clad Federation Tower now under construction will house offices, a hotel and luxury apartments along the Moscow river in a western region of the Russia capital. Its twin, sail-like towers — the tallest of which will be 340 meters — are attached to a central 430-meter (1410-feet) stiletto-like spire and are ringed by pillars.
"The pillars would cut through the plane, and that is all," said Sergei Polonsky, president of Mirax Group, describing the building's resilience to a Sept. 11-style terror attack on a press tour Wednesday.
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