Anglo-Russian practice Twelve Architects has won planning permission for a £120m mixed-use development in the Russian city of Perm, around 700 miles north-east of Moscow.

The 152,000sq m development features a shopping mall, an art gallery, a conference centre and a 175-bed hotel.

Twelve said the scheme, created for client Prospect Perm, sought to create a “distinctive identity” and had taken its inspiration from the city’s culture of performing arts and civic sculptures to create a façade resembling the folds of ballerinas’ skirts.

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