Project Overview
The premium residential complex “Northern Crown” by PSK Group stands in the grand part of Petrograd Side, at the intersection of Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt and Karpovka Embankment. Its architecture continues the traditions of northern modern.
Common areas were designed to reflect the exclusivity of a private club-like residence and its prestigious status. The goal was to craft intimate, cozy yet highly functional spaces for future residents.
Spatial Organization
Common areas feel like welcoming living rooms where residents can gather in the evenings. Architects created varied functional zones to make life in the complex comfortable for everyone: a children’s club with a tutor room, coworking space with meeting room, club lounge, and fitness club with beauty and massage rooms.
Key zones:
- At the entrance, residents and guests are greeted by a reception desk. Behind it, patinated mirrors with integrated lighting create an illusion of receding columns, dissolving spatial boundaries and inviting into a “looking-glass” world.
- Symmetrical fireplace zones flank the reception. Abundant textiles and rounded furniture shapes evoke security and the warmth of a cozy living room.
The children’s club is divided into activity zones so kids can choose: active play area for running, cartoon-watching corner, construction toys zone, and creative space for drawing, reading fairy tales, and workshops. The club uses the color palette of building 8.2. Accent walls, custom balloon-shaped lights, and animal-shaped armchairs and poufs create a fairy-tale mood.
A separate tutor room allows focused study without distractions.
productive atmosphere. Residents can work on laptops, use the library, listen to vinyl, or relax by the fireplace with coffee in comfortable armchairs.
A dedicated meeting room supports important discussions and video calls.
Through the resident mobile app, users book fitness classes, massage sessions, children’s club events, and more.
Design Concept
The design code creates an authentic atmosphere that continues northern modern traditions on one hand and delivers immediate home-like warmth on the other. Painted walls, mosaic panels, textiles, carpets, decorative accessories, and smoky glass chandeliers together form the unique character of “Severnaya Korona”.
The modern-classic interior uses a cool grey-blue palette. Complex muted tones, velvety fabrics, and warm reflections in patinated mirrors envelope residents, transporting them into an ethereal space. Wall panels and mosaics draw from northern folklore, inviting touch with their magical world.
Fireplace-zone carpets in building 8.2 were custom-printed from original sketches developed by ABD architects during visualization. The project features extensive mosaics made from smalt with epoxy grout; most designs are original, though one fragment references the Metropol Hotel facade in Moscow.
Project Statements
Anna Pankova, Lead Architect, ABD architects
“This was an engaging project. The client asked for a unique selling concept that would tie the historic and new buildings together while creating distinct yet cohesive interiors for each. A large portion of the furniture was custom-made to our sketches.
It’s rare in public and office projects to use such a color palette, integrate mosaics and stucco work — it was a valuable and interesting experience.”
Natalia Denisova, Head of Marketing, PSK Group
"The created interiors reinforced and emphasized the exclusivity of the Severnaya Korona project, which has become a striking phenomenon in the development market and not only in St. Petersburg.
The creation of a project that unites epochs, a truly Petersburg project, is certainly a reason for professional pride and a new set of standards."
