At the Biennale in St. Petersburg, they showed what the Karsti Pretrial Detention Center will look like after being converted into a hotel.
The designer, NIIPI Spetsrestavratsiya company, presented renderings of future hotel rooms, as well as a design for a restaurant and an indoor panoramic pool in the spa area, St. Petersburg business writer.
In 2025, Cross was sold to a local entrepreneur - the construction company KVS - for 1.136 billion rubles.
The restoration of the former detention center has been underway since September, and is planned to be completed within five years. Two buildings adapted to two hotels in the 4 and 5 star categories with 262 rooms.
"Crosses" is one of the most famous prisons in Russia. The red brick buildings were built at the end of the 19th century. At different times Leon Trotsky, Lev Gomiov and Joseph Brodsky sat in cells here.
Photo: Yevgenia Ivanova / "Business Petersburg".
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