Московский международный деловой центр «Москва-Сити» (ММДЦ «Москва-Сити»)

This guide to Moscow-City opens with a 2023 drone strike on one of its glass towers, then rewinds to 1992, when planners led by architect Boris Tkhor imagined turning a derelict quarry and factory site on the Presnenskaya Embankment into Russia's answer to Canary Wharf. You'll hear how the towers rose anyway, including Federation Tower's decade-long construction saga through a financial crisis, and how the finance the district was built for never fully showed up. Listen for what moved into the empty offices instead of the bankers who were meant to fill them.