Magnet Minsk multifunctional hotel and business complex will be situated at the intersection of Nezavisimosti Avenue and Kalinovsky Street, not far from the National Library. Construction will involve foreign and local companies. Kayson’s architect tells us that the building will represent an ‘inverted magnet’, with much attention given to multi-functional facilities. “The building should correspond to the National Library and become the city’s gates,” notes the architect. It took two years to develop the project, which will house a trade centre, a hotel, offices and a sports-and-fitness centre.

“Minsk is worthy of having such a wonderful complex. It will fit perfectly into the capital’s cultural centre,” asserted Kayson’s Chairman and President, Mohammad Reza Ansari, at a ceremony to launch construction. It is planned that, by May 2010, foundations will have been dug and construction should be complete by 2013.

The Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Leonid Anfimov, notes that the construction of this site should promote closer co-operation between Belarus and Iran, with other projects in the pipeline.

Iran’s Kayson has worked in Belarus for five years already and has begun to construct Prilesie transport and logistics centre in the Minsk district. The construction of another hotel complex is also planned.