Московский международный деловой центр «Москва-Сити» (ММДЦ «Москва-Сити»)
Skyscraper cluster of glass towers along a river, built to rival global financial hubs.
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This guide to Moscow-City in Moscow opens in December 2014 on the roof of one of the IQ Quarter towers, where a Lord of the Rings premiere called for something huge and glowing, and a spokesman for the Orthodox Church had views about it. It also covers the district itself: Moscow's planned answer to London's Canary Wharf, the bankers it was built for, and who ended up filling the glass instead. Best heard with the towers in view, looking up.
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