Oct 24, St. Petersburg

Opposition to the Okhta Center, the $2 billion glass skyscraper the Russian energy giant Gazprom seeks to build in historic St. Petersburg, has been mounting since the project's inception.  Locals in Russia's cultural capital worried the 400-meter-high skyscraper -- known derisively as "kukuruzina" (the corncob) -- would destroy the integrity of the city's famed neoclassical architecture...more