Arch Group Will Transfer Full Design Documentation for the White Tower to New Owner—If They're Ready to Use It
White Tower's Fate Hangs in Balance as Restoration Costs Soar
The Arch Group is prepared to hand over all project documentation for the White Tower to its new owner—provided the buyer is willing to put it to use, the group's director, Pavel Loginov, told our website.
"On top of that, the results of the building's technical survey will likely need updating again in the near future," Loginov added.
He clarified that there are currently no plans to purchase the tower from Podelniki, the civic organization that now holds it: "They almost certainly won't have the funds, and asking citizens to crowdfund a buyout sounds utterly absurd. Either way, we will keep doing everything in our power to physically preserve the structure—whether as its official custodian or in any other capacity during the transition period."
Loginov speculated that the White Tower's eventual buyer would be a major investor: "For them, it will be nothing more than a loss-making prestige asset—a toy, nothing else."
"Finding such a buyer won't be easy," he stressed, highlighting the tower's unconventional nature as a peripheral site in Yekaterinburg and the challenges of adapting it for public use. Podelniki had originally planned to open an information center there.
"The core issue with its current state is that without serious—surgical—restoration work, the tower is like a patient on constant medication. The roof leaks here, something crumbles there. Right now, everything is precarious but conditionally stabilized. Yet even the materials used for conservation have a shelf life," the Arch Group director noted.
