MAIL.RU

When the Mail.ru Group signed a long-term lease agreement to house its headquarters at the Skylight Business Centre in Moscow, the building’s architecture was a challenge.

As the name implies, the inside is bathed in natural light, thanks to high windows and a vast atrium, but the architects chose to leave all the HVAC conduits and cable trays visible under the soffit.

The centre consists of two 27-storey towers connected by a plaza and sky bridge; the towers are mirror reflections of each other. Mail.ru occupies nearly 30,000 m2 in one of the towers. To control acoustics, Mail.ru installed 17,000 Baffles above the open plan offices and in the atrium. In the same way rows of trees provide a natural windbreak, rows of baffles absorb sound and control reverberation.