Save Classical St. Petersburg

I have written an article and helped put a petition on the web to save St. Petersburg, Russia, from Gazprom's plan to build a high-rise, avant-gardist headquarters building there. Here is the text of an email that I am sending to encourage people to sign the petition. You can copy this text and email it to anyone you think would be interested:


Please sign our petition to save classical St. Petersburg, at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petersburg/. Please forward this email as widely as possible.

St. Petersburg, Russia, has one of the world's greatest collections of neo-classical architecture and is a UNESCO world heritage site. Gazprom, Russia's largest energy company, is planning to build a modernist headquarters tower there that is taller than New York's Empire State building.

For the six entries that Gazprom considered, all in an avant-gardist style that is incompatible with the historical style of St. Petersburg, see http://www.gazprom-city.info/competition/projects

For more information, see http://www.intbau.org/news.htm#GAZPROM081206.

Sign our petition to save classical St. Petersburg, at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petersburg/ and forward this email as widely as possible.

The government of St. Petersburg has been shaken by the opposition to this project, and if there is a widespread international outcry, we can stop this project.

Charles Siegel