Mosakvarium. the highest aquarium in the shopping center aviapark - photo

In November 2014, an amazing aquarium was opened in the new Moscow shopping and entertainment center Aviapark on Khodynskoye Pole. Later, its uniqueness was confirmed by a special visiting commission.

The peculiarity of the aquarium lies, first of all, in its height. She is 23 meters and makes an object highest cylindrical aquarium in the world! Which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

The production of this miracle was carried out by the company International Concept Manegement. The cylinder was based on acrylic rings with a diameter of 6 meters, which made it possible to obtain a container with a volume of 650 cubic meters. Due to the massive artificial decoration, the useful volume of water is 370 cubic meters, which allows you to keep up to 2.5 thousand fish.

Most fish species (and there are about 60 species in the aquarium) represent the coral reef zone. The most widely represented are surgeons, butterflies, angelfish, triggerfish and zebrasomes. The fish are selected taking into account their peculiarities of keeping and behavior so that all of them can organically fit into a complex artificial ecosystem created by man. At proper care fish in this ecosystem can live for many years: some species - up to 25 years!

Maintenance of the aquarium is carried out through the upper unit. All water treatment and filtration systems are located in a separate adjacent room. For cooking sea ​​water you have to take ordinary Moscow tap water, thoroughly clean it and then add sea salt and trace elements. The weight of the structure is 550 tons, it is maintained thanks to a special reinforcement of the foundation.

Of particular interest is the maintenance of the aquarium. It is carried out by a team of 6 specialists. All cleaning and feeding work takes place with the full immersion of ichthyologists working inside the scuba tank. The feeding procedure itself is such an interesting sight that crowds of people gather to watch it. The food is served from ordinary plastic bottles, the fish knows perfectly well what awaits them, so they are looking forward to the appearance of people. It is also interesting to see how scuba divers emerge: at certain intervals they stop to blow themselves, after all, a 23-meter column of water is no joke!

It is safe to say that this aquarium has become a wonderful amazing element of the interior design of the shopping center and has taken a central place in it. Many people specially come to see this miracle, which is unique not only for Russia, but for the whole world!

And if you have not been to the Aviapark shopping and entertainment center, we definitely recommend that you visit it! Even if only to look at the aquarium.

The area of ​​the mall is 390,000 sq. m. For example, the largest in Moscow "Megi" (Belaya Dacha) - 300,000 square meters. m. The 4-storey shopping center is built in the form of a smooth arc and is designed for more than 500 stores, where 150,000 people can be located at the same time. Walking the entire mall on foot means walking 10 km. The food court occupies 800 sq. There is the largest Media Markt in Europe, the flagship of Debenhams, the highest aquarium, a 17-screen cinema, the only children's educational park KidZania in Russia will open in autumn - and so on and so forth.

The locals were against the construction

Luzhkov also decided that a pedestrian zone, an aviation museum and the Historical Landscapes of Moscow park would appear on the Khodynka field, where Aviapark is now located. After that, the field stood idle for 10 years, and in the spring of 2012 it became known that a shopping center would appear instead of a park on Khodynka. locals staged rallies against the project, but nothing came of it.

Photo: Polina Kirilenko

Mysterious owners, shareholders and developers

At first, the investor of the project was the developer Mikhail Zaits, in whose Amma Development company the former top management of IKEA works. How a little-known businessman managed to agree on such a project was not clear until it became clear that the structures of Arkady Rotenberg were involved in the case. Investments in the project amounted to more than $ 1 billion, among the shareholders - Igor Rotenberg (son).

The mall was built in just two years

The foundation stone was laid exactly two years ago, in 2012, with the intention of opening the mall at the end of 2014. Despite the crisis, the withdrawal of tenants and general economic problems, "Aviapark" opens on time, although not completely filled. It is expected that by April 85% of tenants will move in there.

Photo: Polina Kirilenko

In the center of the mall stands the world's tallest aquarium.

The 24-meter aquarium is impossible not to notice: it starts on the first floor and ends exactly under the glass ceiling (you can really see the sky through it). 3000 fish were brought here from the Red Sea, a scuba diver descends into the glass high-rise building three times a day to feed the fish and at the same time wash the walls from the inside. Fish are very sensitive to aggressive light and loud music, so the aquarium is kept some distance from everything.

Inside there will be a kindergarten, a skating rink, a Tu-154 aircraft, and next to it there will be two museums

Kindergarten - to keep the kids entertained, a skating rink - for everyone else, two museums, metro and contemporary art - to further establish the status of an inimitable place. The aircraft's fuselage is part of the KidZania Mexican children's profession park, which is opening for the first time in Russia. The principle is the same as that of the local "Masterslavl", only the companies inside, presumably, will be Western. The program lasts 5 hours, takes place twice a day, a thousand children will be launched at a time - everything opens next fall.

Place for small shops

6000 sq. m on the 3rd floor is reserved for the Trend Island zone. Aviapark considers itself the inventor of this format, but in reality, for example, Tsvetnoy is arranged according to this principle: in one place with a common cash desk, five dozen brands and stores sell their things at once. By the way, the anchor tenant, as in Tsvetnoy, will be the Items company, to which Moscow owes the appearance of Wood Wood, Minimarket and other youth European brands.

Photo: Polina Kirilenko

Getting to the mall will be easy, but not immediately

Now walking from the metro takes an average of half an hour, so after the opening of the Dynamo and Polezhaevskaya metro stations, free buses will start running, a new minibus will be launched, which will capture a radius of 3-4 km in the district. And next year, near the Aviapark, the Khodynskoye Pole metro station will open. At the same time, residents of the area are terrified of traffic jams.

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We saw this tall - first-high aquarium (from floor to ceiling) quite by accident. They didn’t even know about this shopping complex until they got there because of one store :) In general, we saw large aquarium and they were simply delighted :) The fact is that my men (husband and son) simply adore fish and aquariums. We visit aquariums wherever they are. And we study fish in all aquariums, cafes, shops. In Thailand, we were generally lucky, at the jewelry factory there were a lot of large aquariums with a variety of marine life. There were even small sharks. The aquarium on Khodynka, which is located in the Aviapark shopping center, is considered the highest in the world. Its height is 23 meters. And more than 2,000 tropical fish swim in it. The shopping center itself was opened last fall. And his feature was the highest aquarium in the world. By the way, the shopping center itself with a total area of ​​390 thousand sq.m. became the largest in Europe.

Without binoculars, in my opinion, the fish are not particularly visible. Although you can see how they float

The aquarium in Moscow is 7 meters higher than the Berlin aquarium DomAquare! Although, inferior in volume. The diameter of the cylinder-aquarium in the Aviapark is 6 meters, and its capacity is 650 cubic meters. m. But because of the coral reef, which is located in the very center from the bottom to the top, the Moscow Aquarium holds only 370 cubic meters. m of water. The main aquarium has approximately the same volume. The tallest aquarium in the world is made of acrylic glass, with a total weight of 55 tons.

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The aquarium in the Aviapark is visible from afar and from all levels - it is located in the center of the shopping center opposite the entrance. And if you're lucky, you can see how the scuba diver feeds the fish. He does this 3 times a day.

we were 2 times in the shopping center, but have never seen a scuba diver :)

By the way, the aquarium in the Kiev shopping center Ocean Plaza is considered the largest in Eastern Europe. It opened a couple of years ago. There is a smaller aquarium in Belgorod in the MegaGrinn shopping center.

Located in the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the AquaDom, at 25 meters high, is the largest cylindrical aquarium in the world. It is filled with more than 900,000 liters of sea water and contains about 2,600 fish of 56 species. Thanks to the large amount of sandblasted glass, the aquarium gives the hall a feeling of lightness and transparency. Guests and visitors can travel through the aquarium in a glass elevator to the sightseeing point and glass roof restaurant. The fish are looked after by two divers who also maintain the aquarium. AquaDom was opened in December 2003. Its cost is about 12.8 million euros.

The iPond is an iPod accessory that consists of a speaker and a tiny aquarium. One fish lives in about 650 milliliters of water. It is extremely popular in Australia, but some believe it is cruel to the fish. Hugh Wirth, spokesman for the animal welfare organization RSPCA, says that despite the ability of fighting fish to breathe on the surface, the tank is too small to receive required amount oxygen. A small amount of water will cause a rapid change in temperature, which means that tropical fish will not live long. "iPond should be banned," says Dr. Wirth.

Teach a man how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Throw a fish into a man's toilet and he will never get bored visiting him. Such a funny saying can be found on Fish "n Flush toilets. Fish "n Flush is a patented two-piece cistern designed by AquaOne Technologies, Inc., a water systems innovator. The aquarium holds 2.2 gallons of water. When you flush the water, it seems that all the water comes out of the tank and the fish are washed away, but this is just optical illusion: in fact, the fish are completely safe in another part of the tank, made of polished plastic. And the water that drains is in a separate container, behind the aquarium.

4. Car-aquarium

At the Siam Ocean World Aquarium, mall Siam Paragon, in Bangkok, has an amazing car that you can't drive. Why? Because it is filled to the top with water! Dozens of fish call this radically modified vehicle their home. The doors in this car are pre-welded in case someone mistakenly thinks it would be funny to release so much water and fish on the mall floor.

Probably everyone wondered what to do with that ancient 26-inch wooden TV that is gathering dust in your or your grandparents' garage? He has a great purpose! Even if you don't have an old TV, it's easy to buy one for next to nothing, and after a while you'll be able to enjoy the most enjoyable program all day long without ads.

Takashi Amano is a designer, photographer and aquarist (a person who maintains or owns an aquarium). He opened the Aqua Design Amano aquarium, where he presented his concept of a Japanese garden (similar to bonsai) in the form of aquarium art that turns your ordinary aquarium into nature art.

A huge success in Japan is the Aquapict Jellyfish, in which color-changing jellyfish swim like the sea, only they are not real. Made from highly realistic silicone, the jellyfish swim and change color with a 5-color lighting system (red, yellow, green, blue and magenta). They move thanks to the light flow created in the container, which does not create streams or bubbles and therefore everything looks extremely believable and beautiful.

This is the smallest aquarium in the world, which holds only 2 teaspoons of water. The miniature miracle is made of glass, its width is 30mm, its height is 24mm, and its depth is 14mm, and it can fit on your palm. The aquarium is so small that there is only room for one tiny zebra fish.

There are many bars in the world that use aquariums in their interior, but not many of them can boast an aquarium dance floor. In Austin, Texas, the QUA Bottle Lounge is such a bar. The dance floor in it is an aquarium with sharks.

Macquariums and iMacquariums are designed for Apple fans around the world. Jake Harms turns old Apple computers into eye-catching aquariums. Redesigned iMacs feature an aquarium, bright lights, and high-quality filters instead of a screen. Each Macvarium is ready to use right out of the box. Just decorate them however you like and add water and fish! Such an aquarium will be a bright and original highlight in your home or office.

"Around the World" is a glass aquarium with goldfish in the shape of a world map. You can enjoy traveling around the world with your pets." (Designer Takuro Yamamoto).

An aquarium maze is a whole system of aquariums. No doubt he's great. And since it's priced at $6,500, it's got to have a person with it to clean that fancy aquarium. But still, it's nice to look at the fish that move through such an unusual creation.

The aquarium bed is the most unusual headboard on the planet, and perhaps very similar to the one Poseidon rests on. The bed is made of the best materials and offers unparalleled views of the massive 650 gallon aquarium and its varied marine life. Simply put, the aquarium bed raises the bar for the rest of the aquariums in the house.

It would be nice to watch the fish while waiting for the bus, right? At least for the few days they're alive. This bus stop, which is called "AqurioMania", is completely real and designed in Brazil. Installing real aquariums on a large scale can be expensive pleasure, but they certainly bring a fresh, lively look to the places we visit more than once a day.

This is a very cold aquarium. So cold, in fact, that it's frozen! This crazy attraction is located in Kesennuma Port, in northern Japan. Octopus, crab and other fish were frozen and displayed in large, transparent blocks of ice. Visitors can see more than 450 marine inhabitants located in about 50 ice cubes in an aquarium where the temperature is -20 degrees Celsius.

This guy is really crazy about fish and aquariums. He built this wonderful plumbing for fish in his cafe. You can take a seat, relax and watch the fish that swim through this aqueduct. This is very unusual, but you have to note his ingenuity. Fish can move from one aquarium to another as this plumbing connects them.

Now you can not only stand and enjoy the fish and the seascape of your aquarium, but also watch them from your sofa, resting from the tension after a day's work. And all thanks to this aquarium in the form of a coffee table.

W+K Tokyo Lab is famous for its creativity to things, so it's no wonder they've repurposed classic Nike sneakers into an aquarium. The sneakers are completely transparent, they are filled with water and contain three goldfish and algae. They were created specifically for the Nike 78 project. The purpose of this project is to pay respect to the Swoosh Company by turning their sneakers into other works of art as a tribute to Nike innovation.

There is something soothing about seeing tropical fish swimming in an aquarium. Most often, aquariums can be seen in the living room, but what about the bathroom? Washbasin Intalbrass "Moody Aquarium Sink will enliven everyday hand washing and brushing your teeth.

Previously, in large shopping centers, people made dates at the fountains, but now more and more often - at the aquariums. Two years ago, the largest aquarium in Eastern Europe opened in Kiev, and a smaller one soon appeared in Belgorod. Now in Moscow there is an aquarium, characterized by definitive pronoun- most. The highest in the world! (Amendment, since 2016 "").

Photo 1. On the opening day of the Aviapark shopping mall, the brass ensemble Fortuna Brass performs on the podium near the aquarium

Large aquariums are available in all Russian and foreign oceanariums. But nowhere is there such a high (23 meters on glass!), as in the Aviapark shopping and entertainment complex. The dimensions of the cylinder with sea water and thousands of fish match the Aviapark itself, created in just two years at Khodynka.

Photo 2. View of the aquarium from the first level

For a long time this place in Moscow has been famous for folk festivals, a hippodrome, the oldest and recently closed airfield. AT last years Khodynka field was massively built up residential buildings, the Palace of Sports, the Park of Aviators were opened here. The list goes on. But the largest (even by European standards) shopping center was missing.

Photo 3. View of the aquarium from the third floor

And on November 28, 2014, the Aviapark shopping and entertainment complex opened to amaze everyone with its scale. Unfortunately, there are no bike rentals at the entrance, so it is advisable to bring your own scooters. Otherwise, its 390 thousand square meters. m and for a week not to get around.

Photo 4. This is how the aquarium looks from the galleries of the 4th floor

But let's get back to the feature of the Aviapark - an aquarium created by the "daughter" of the American company Reynolds Polymer Technology (RPT) - by International Concept Management, Inc. (ICM). These are the world's leading manufacturers, designers and builders of unique acrylic aquariums. And now even the famous marine cylinder aquarium, built by ICM in Berlin, cannot be called the largest. At least in terms of height.

Photo 5. So the aquarium is visible in the middle part with the naked eye

The Moscow aquarium is 7 meters higher than the Berlin one! It is, of course, smaller in size. With an inner diameter of 6 meters, the Aviapark acrylic cylinder holds 650 cubic meters. m, but because of the artificial coral reef, there are actually 370 cubic meters in the aquarium. m of water. This is also a solid volume, the main aquarium has about the same. Acrylic glass aquarium weighs 55 tons.

Photo 6. The base of the acrylic cylinder of the aquarium

Aviapark Aquarium is well located - on the main "street" shopping complex opposite the entrance. It is visible from a distance from all four levels. Keyword here - "from afar". You can get relatively close to the aquarium only at the bottom. Strict signs do not advise to hammer on the glass and take pictures with a flash. At the base of the cylinder, they prudently made a conical base and laid it out with smooth tiles, so that it would be more difficult for not quite adequate visitors to get close to the wall of the aquarium.

Photo 7. To better see the aquarium, you have to use optical devices, for example, a telephoto lens of a photo or video camera

Photo 8. This way you can see even better

So admire thousands of beautiful coral, but small fish in this aquarium will not work. You can see them well from the galleries opposite the aquarium only with binoculars. However, this is not a bad idea. Binoculars, like in the theater, must be rented for money and thus monetize the spectacle.

Photo 9. And so it's very good. But not everyone stocked up with binoculars.

While spyglasses are not offered, the largest aquarium objects of observation are divers in plain sight. There are many fish and they are distributed throughout the thickness of the aquarium. Therefore, divers do not remain without work, and visitors without spectacles. To feed all the fish you have to often dive with plastic bottle, "charged" with food.

Photo 10. The quality of the image is low, as this is a high-magnification scan of a video. But it is clear that the diver feeds the fish from the bottle

It is interesting to watch how the diver sometimes takes the mouthpiece out of his mouth to blow air into the bottle. Apparently this technique helps him portionwise push the food out of the plastic container. The diving suit on the diver's left leg has a special large pocket, where an empty bottle is removed with some effort. After work, the diver ascends to the conical superstructure of the aquarium. The assistant takes the scuba gear away from him and, having dangled his legs a little, the diver hides from the observers. The aquarium is connected to the technical room by a bridge just under the ceiling (photo 11).

Photo 11. This frame shows the technological bridge and aquarium pipeline

Traditionally, the opening of the RPT aquariums is accompanied by a cheerful booth of clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers and a brass band with drums. So it was this time. On the podium in front of the aquarium, they entertained the people after the fashion show. And this is just the beginning.

Photo 12. The diver ran out of fish food, it's time to go to the surface

Photo 13. On the podium in front of the aquarium, the artists of the Moscow street theater "Tall Brothers & Tall Brothers" "light up"

Photo 14. The launch of the aquarium in the Aviapark was a success!

The first acquaintance with the new public aquarium in the Aviapark shopping center left a double impression. On the one hand, the aquarium, of course, is impressive in size. On the other hand, it cannot be called expositional. Thousands of wonderful, beautiful, interesting to watch fish are so far from the audience that they are simply not visible. But that's just my opinion. look,