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The Superyacht Design Festival brings leaders of the superyacht industry and guests from the luxury community together for a thought-provoking and entertaining event that celebrates the world of design.

The event also crowns the winners of the BOAT Design & Innovation Awards , Artistry & Craft Awards and the Young Designer of the Year Award .

The Superyacht Design Festival 2025 will return to the alpine town of Kitzbühel, Austria, on 2-4 February.

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The Superyacht Design Festival 2024 returns to the picturesque alpine town of Kitzbühel, Austria, from January 28th to January 30th, 2024.

The event brings together the biggest players in the superyacht design sector to discuss the future of yacht design, among other topics. This exciting and well-received two-day event includes various fun activities, including socials, galas, and après ski events, in addition to forums, discussion panels, networking events, and more.

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Boat international design & innovation award.

This prestigious award acknowledges naval architecture, styling, innovation, and engineering excellence. The awards will also include the Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a designer who has significantly contributed to the superyacht industry. 

Young Designer of the Year Award 

The Young Designer of the Year Award is held in association with Feadship and celebrates the original concepts of students and trainee designers worldwide. The award tasks aspiring yacht designers with a realistic client request that challenges their technical ability and ideas. 

The Ski Cup is held in collaboration with Lurssen and offers an opportunity for skiing enthusiasts to take part in this exhilarating event. An exclusive Après Ski Party follows the Ski Cup. 

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New for the 2024 Superyacht Design Festival is the BOAT Artistry and Crafts Award, which will celebrate the exceptional craftsmanship in the luxury yacht industry. 

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Charter your yacht for the yachting design event of the year - the superyacht design festival 2024, know before you go, superyacht design festival 2024 faqs, when and where will the 2024 superyacht design festival take place.

The 2024 Superyacht Design Festival will grace the beautiful alpine town of Kitzbühel, Austria, from January 28th to the 30th. Kitzbühel is known for its striking Medieval town center, vibrant nightlife, and superb ski slopes, making it a fitting destination for the 2024 event. The Superyacht Design Festival was first held in the Austrian town in 2016 and is returning in 2024 by popular demand. The Superyacht Design Festival will take place across multiple venues in Kitzbühel. 

What is the primary focus of the Superyacht Design Festival 2024?

The festival gathers industry leaders and luxury enthusiasts, where the world of superyacht design is celebrated and discussed. It offers a platform for thought-provoking discussions and entertainment. 

What are some of the activities and events taking place during the Superyacht Design Festival 2024?

The festival boasts a dynamic two-day agenda that includes elegant galas, après-ski experiences, forums, discussion panels, and networking opportunities. It’s a blend of education and entertainment that caters to a diverse audience.

How can I attend the 2024 Superyacht Design Festival?

To attend this prestigious event, please visit the official event website for information on ticket sales, pricing, and availability. 

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The world of superyacht design needs a good shake-up now and again. This relatively young industry sometime suffers from deep-pocketed clients not used to hearing the word 'no'. As a result, even the very best naval architects and interior designers discover their boats are shaped, steered and sculpted towards excess and ostentation thanks to the desire for biggest and best in the dockside bragging contest. It's not all gin palace and gothic insanity. This year's Superyacht Design Symposium was sponsored by Swarovski , a sign that the industry is becoming more and more aware of the rest of the design community. Panellists included Piero Lissoni and Fredrikson Stallard , talking about what was often a very different approach to high-end design, while Swarovski commissioned American architect Greg Lynn to create a vast sail-like structure for the conference hall, as well as showing some shimmering interior finishes developed by Martin Francis, a legendary figure in the industry and former collaborator with Norman Foster and Peter Rice. But mostly the annual get-together allows the industry to talk shop, pat backs and let their hair down in the folksy surroundings of one of Austria's finest mega-chalet resorts. Panels and workshops were convened to get a snapshot of new and future directions, while a clutch of awards - the kitschily nautical 'Neptunes' - were handed out to the best designs, inside and out, of the year at the Showboats Design Awards, the industry's Oscars. The contemporary yacht is stuffed to bursting with new materials and new technologies, although the ends are rarely questioned. Perhaps this is just as well, as many of those lucky enough to write cheques of this size do so because they want to engage with the process and not simply turn up when everything is done. That's why a project can typically take up to five years, and billionaire-specific issues like political unrest, global market turmoil and legal shenanigans can stretch the process out to well over a decade. Nevertheless, there was something slightly masochistic about inviting Piero Lissoni to tell the assembled designers that his own clients were essentially 'victims' and that yacht designers should, in essence, try a little harder to get their own way. The laughter that followed was genuine but also slightly nervous. The category winners trod the path between aesthetic overload and calm, contemporary modern, without ever really venturing too far into the unknown. The board was practically swept by Grace E, a handsome Picchiotti built 73m, which was considered the best looking inside and out, as well as the most environmentally friendly boat of the year. We also liked Ken Freivokh's SL Limousine, a sleek 9.6m tender, while the sailboat categories demonstrated a much-needed sense of style and grace, both in terms of naval architecture (the 46m Elfje, built by Royal Huisman and designed by Hoek Design), exterior design (Javier Jaudenes' beautiful Winwin, built by Baltic Yachts, which also rated highly with its chic, simple interior by Design Unlimited). The 40m and above category was owned by the classically styled Wisp, a traditional blue-hulled vessel (also by Hoek Design) with a richly crafted interior from Rhoades Young Design. Perhaps it was the emphasis on packaging and space that set the sailboats apart. By way of illustration, an elderly Luca Brenta received a lifetime achievement award for a career that included a long-standing collaboration with Wally Yachts that took the aesthetic of the elegant sailboat to a whole new level. The shadow of the most world's high-profile superyacht client also fell across proceedings. Steve Jobs' Eve, a complex multi-layered collaboration still swathed in embargoes and gagging clauses, is perhaps the most radical boat design of the past few decades, yet very little is known about it outside the industry. We saw a tantalising glimpse of the interiors, and Jobs' go-to glass engineer, James O'Callaghan of Eckersley O'Callaghan, hinted at the great lengths the late Apple overlord would go to change the long-standing paradigms that shape the vast majority of superyachts. No doubt there are other clients of a similar calibre out there, building monuments to themselves under an impenetrable veil of secrecy. For now, the world of superyachts will always seem a little off kilter to the rest of the design industry, a place of intrigue, ostentation and, just occasionally, extraordinary things.

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Six decks of separation: Grace E demonstrates the complexity of the contemporary motor yacht

The SL Limousine, designed by Ken Freivokh. A tender for the sporting owner

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Wisp at sea, a classically styled 48m sailing boat by Hoek Design

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Originally created in 2009 for Design Miami, the sails are embedded with thousands of tiny crystals

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Scenery Review : Moscow City XP by Drzewiecki Design

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You fly for hours, anticipating your arrival, wanting to take in the area and the views of another country far away from your departure airport. The airport and the area you leave from is detailed and visually full, and you know you have a great airport scenery waiting for you at the other end of the flight, then when you arrive...

...  Nothing, but flat plain emptiness and the same boring standard X-Plane basic scenery, worse there is no OSM (Open Street Map) data in the tile either, so there is no road or autogen detailing in there as well, just well nothing.

When Drzewiecki Design released their UUEE Sheremetyevo Airport XP , I loved it because it was like a visitor from the Cold War past, the Soviet era, and it was also great scenery and great choice of a destination to fly to from any of the capitals of Europe...  but that was it, just this great airport in the middle of nothingness, bland....   zero ville.

Now Drzewiecki Design has released "Moscow City"  a scenery package to compliment their UUEE Sheremetyevo, and boy how much a difference this release has done to this totally boring area.

To get the full first impression effect I flew JARDesign's A320neo from EFHK Vatnaa, Helsinki to UUEE Sheremetyevo which is flight Finnair AY153 which is a daily 9.25am service.

First Impressions

I was surprised to start picking up scenery still quite away out from central Moscow, as I approached my 6000ft transition altitude. Here there was buildings and houses and the physical visual notes you were arriving somewhere.

Looking hard at the horizon through the A320's windows and you could see the iconic silhouette of Moscow city.

The scenery provides lite versions of all Moscow's Airports, this is UUWW Vnukovo, which was easily recognisable as you flew over. As you fly closer to the centre of the city the density of the objects below becomes quite heavy as the landscape fills in. You have all kinds of infrastructure including, blocks of flats, tower blocks, factories, housing, skyscrapers and almost everything that makes up an urban landscape, in all there is 2000 custom-made buildings that makes up this impressive scenery.

A note here in that you don't get that rolling as you move feeling effect where as it just suddenly appears in front of you and then quickly disappears behind as soon as you have flown out over the area. There is a slight effect of that as there has to be, but only in the far distance and as you can see from the images the views in every direction are widespread and visually it is very good to excellent.

The "Seven Sisters" or "Stalinist skyscrapers" built from 1947 to 1953 are all in the scenery with their "Wedding Cake" architecture or officially  Russian Baroque               - Gothic style. Most famous is the Moscow State University, front and centre of the image below.

Central Moscow is excellent and extremely realistic, and you really need a travel guide to pick out the landmarks and detail, but it is hard to miss the Red Kremlin complex  and St Peter's square from the air.  Both sides of the aircraft is visually full until you have crossed right over the city.

I am not a fan of the generated 3d OSM scenery, but this is very good in blending in perfectly with the X-Plane default scenery and giving you a smooth transition from country to urban and back again with great realism.

Over the city and turning north towards Sheremetyevo, another Moscow airport UUMU Chkalovsky is represented on the turn.

The city skyline is now easily visible on landing at Sheremetyevo, and that really helps in the arrival factor, more so in that the cities building infrastructure spread now comes up and around the airport to fill the gaps to the city itself, and making the original  Sheremetyevo scenery that was so open and lonely in the old X-Plane view is now a big part of the whole in this combination. No doubt it really brings this always good scenery now alive and very usable.

Sheremetyevo Airport

Before we move on to the city itself. It is important to note the area around UUEE Sheremetyevo itself.

Compare the large image above to the earlier image at the start of this review to see the amount of change there is around UUEE Sheremetyevo with the addition of this Moscow City package. The two sceneries are of course meant to be used together, and in reality it would look odd if you had Moscow City scenery installed without the Sheremetyevo scenery included to fill out the northern areas. A highlight is that both sceneries together form a single whole, as the areas between the airport and the central city area are well filled in and that gives you a huge area of coverage and the full visual aspect.

To get a closer lower look at the Moscow Center I commandeered Dreamfoil's lovely Bell 407.

There is a 4.000km² total area covered with this scenery here, and you have expect some sort of building replication to cover all that ground. There is of course but as well in the fact there is also enough variations as to not keep it all interesting and not obviously visually obvious.

The closer you go to the central area, the variations in the buildings change there in style and density as well. And then more of the iconic buildings start to appear as you get closer in again to the middle. The business district is excellent, with a lot of business towers and the more modern futuristic skyscraper architecture that stands out in every view point in eye scans across the city.

The more recent is in tune with the more older Stalinist era that makes up the Moscow skyline.

The Kremlin Complex and the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (St Basil's) is excellently represented and so is "Red Square"

There are Orthodox churches everywhere and all the big icons in the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium, Otkrytive Arena and department stores, museums and power stations and more....

I did have issues with many buildings floating, including the Kremlin. I tried both "Runways follow terrain contours" on and off with no flattening of the objects and there is no information in the manual either on how to fix the problem.

Night lighting is very good, yes there is again a repeatable pattern to the majority of the hundreds of the apartment blocks that does stand out, but the more individual buildings do all have that personal touch and some buildings look really very good.

The highlight here is the business district which looks magnificent and is very realistic from any direction at night as is the lit Stadium.

Although away from the central area the Ostankino Tower that stands 540.1 metres (1,772 ft) tall, and is the tallest freestanding structure in Europe and it looks great at night and is a very good position indicator from the air from any direction.

Included Moscow Airports

As noted also included in the scenery are seven airports and several helipads.

UUWW Vnukovo

The futuristic Vnukovo International is very good for a lite version, with great terminals and lots of small detailing. Only thing missing is the static aircraft and a bit more ramp equipment, but otherwise it is highly usable.

UUDD Domodedovo

The oldest of Moscow's International airports is Domodedovo. Again it is quite devoid of static aircraft and I am not crazy about the blue terminal glass work, but it is still a very workable scenery to use and has a lot of well made objects.

UUBW Zhukovsky

Zhukovsky was a major aircraft testing facility since the  cold war years, with most of the major Russian Experimental Design Bureau's having facilities here. It is also now used by the Ministry of Emergency Situations! and cargo carriers. It was also used as a test site for the Soviet Buran  reusable Spacecraft because it has the world's second longest pubic runway at at 5,402 m (17,723 ft). Mostly it is a collection of very large hangars but has a lot of static aircraft in storage.

UUMO Ostafyevo International Business Airport

A former military airbase. Ostafyevo features a new modern glass terminal, and caters primarily to business aviation.

UUMU Chkalovsky

Chkalovsky is a military logistics airport that is famous for it's support for the Russian Space program and transport to Star City and the Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center. Yuri Gagarin left here on his final flight before crashing by the town of Kirzhach.

UUBM Myachkovo Airport

Myachkovo is a small General Aviation Airport that is owned by the Finpromko company. Cargo aircraft up to the size of the Ilyushin ll-76 freighter can also use the airport.

UUMB Kubinka

Kubinka has been a significant Russian military airbase and large airshows are held here to show off the Russian military might.

There is also provided UUU1 Kremlin Airport, within the Kremlin walls, but I couldn't get it to work? There are two pads in H1 and H2.

Your first thoughts after reviewing this excellent Moscow scenery is not with this actual package. You then wish that you could have this extensive scenery at London, Rome, Madrid, Berlin and the list could go on with any of your favorite European Cities, and don't count a load in the Middle East and Asia. But a London scenery like this would certainly be a godsend in our X-Plane world. Drzewiecki Design has already done Warsaw and Manhattan, so there is always hope.

It is not cheap either and you need to add in their UUEE Sheremetyevo scenery package on top of that as well. But you get an awful lot of ground covered here for your money, with the area covered here that is extensive...  huge and flying into Moscow will never be the same again.

A few areas to note in one that in my case a few of the buildings floated, the download is huge load at 1.4gb and this Russian area is not the best for navigation aids and programming FMS units as most waypoints are not recognised. Most of the airports ILS coordinates also have to checked and recalibrated (Drzewiecki Design do provide all the correct coordinates) so there is a little work to do to set up repeat services but the work is worth the results.

Not only is the actual Moscow city and all it's buildings supported, you also get seven (if lite versions) of Moscow's other airports included as well, but the framerate processing of all this huge amount of objects and scale is pretty good to excellent. Framerate does hurt more on a lower (helicopter) level and certainly you need a computer with a little extra power is in no doubt required, but overall for the size of the area the scenery is extremely efficient.

Yes I was impressed by this Moscow City Scenery, as this once very barren area of X-Plane is now a very attractive repeat destination as nothing can give you a greater fulfilment than seeing your destination appear in the distance and then give you a huge visual experience as you fly over and approach your destination.

Moscow City certainly delivers that and more...  Just more sceneries like this please!

Moscow City XP by Drzewiecki Design is NOW available! from the X-Plane.Org Store here :

• Extremely detailed model of Moscow metropolitan area in Russia
• Almost 2000 custom-made buildings and other objects, all high quality, FPS-friendly and with night textures
• Whole Moscow center done in 3D as well as all other important landmarks - museums, palaces, skyscrapers, towers, bridges, railway stations, Zara stores...
• Trains, ships, 3D people, cars, airport vehicles, static aircraft - anything you can imagine
• About 4000 sq.km of photoreal 0,5-1m/pix terrain with autogen
• Sceneries of all surrounding airports including UUWW Vnukovo, UUDD Domodedovo, UUBW Zhukovski, UUMO Ostafyevo, UUBM Myachkovo and UUMB Kubinka, with all airport buildings, detailed layouts, people, airport vehicles and more
• Very detailed Kremlin model with newly constructed heliport

Requirements

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Installation and documents:

Download for the Moscow City XP is 1.47gb and the unzipped file is deposited in the "Custom Scenery" as four files:

DDZ Moscow City XP (3.99gb) - Yes GIGABYTES!

DDZ Moscow City XP Layer 2 (30.20mb)

DDZ Moscow City XP Documents (1.0 mb)

ZZZ_DDZ Moscow City XP Terrain (20.10mb)

Installation for Windows comes with an .exe installer that deposits the files in the correct order required (however I still moved the ZZZ- folder to the bottom via the INI text install list.

Installation Instructions are provided for Mac and Linux

You need to check all airports ILS coordinates are correct, instructions are provided.

Documents: Two documents include

Moscow City XP MacLinuxinstall

Moscow City XP Manual (seven pages)

Review System Specifications:

Computer System : Windows  - Intel Core i7 6700K CPU 4.00GHz / 64bit - 16 Gb single 1067 Mhz DDR4 2133 - GeForce GTX 980/SSE2 - Samsung Evo 512gb SSD 

Software :   - Windows 10 - X-Plane 10 Global ver 10.50

Addons : Saitek x52 Pro system Joystick and Throttle : Sound - Bose  Soundlink Mini

Plugins: JARDesign Ground Handling Deluxe US$14.95 : WorldTraffic US$29.95

Scenery or Aircraft

- Airbus A320neo by JARDesign ( X-Plane.OrgStore ) - US$59.95 : A320neo Sound Packs by Blue Sky Star Simulations ( X-Plane.OrgStore ) - US$19.95

- Bell 407 by Dreamfoil Creations ( X-Plane.OrgStore ) - US$34.95

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Thank you for this very thorough (as always) review. I just bought it (it's on sale) and have only one disappointment so far: Red Square has no ILS or any landing aids at all for that matter. And what a nightmare of an approach! Also I was hoping the package would include an add-on that gives my c172 a big cup holder for my Stoli. Otherwise the scenery is gorgeous. What a country!

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Superyacht Design Symposium 2018: How new markets will shape the yachting industry

The palate of designers is widening.

From global expansion to attracting the next generation of owners, all sectors of the yachting industry will be keen to attract clients from non-traditional luxury markets. At the 2018 Superyacht Design Symposium we heard from four key industry figures who have enjoyed success in engaging with these extreme markets. Here’s what we learned…

Azimut - Benetti made waves in September 2017 when it announced that it had teamed up with Mexican architect Fernando Romero for its latest project, the 77 metre Se77antasette concept (pictured above). Romero is a new name in the yachting world, having previously worked on the New Mexico City International Airport and the Soumaya Museum. The yard’s vice-president Giovanna Vitelli thinks that such non-traditional design partnerships are key to attracting new markets:

"I think it’s time to open the doors to other industries because the kind of luxury that we are experiencing out there is in luxury hotels and our customers are going to these hotels, they don’t necessarily want yachting design. In emerging markets, people often have no past in yachting, so you can really dare to dream.”

Extreme isn’t all about size

The subject of the 2018 Superyacht Design Symposium is the New Extremes, and our panel members all interpreted that in different ways. For Dan Lenard, co-founder of Nuvolari-Lenard , it not always a case of size matters.

"We have to remember that we are on the sissy side of the boating industry,” he said. "What we call a big yacht is small for commercial ships. It is not the size that makes a superyacht special, but rather the complexity of what is on board.”

The industry’s reputation still needs work

As the author of The Sunday Times Rich List, journalist John Arlidge combined knowledge of the super-rich with a valuable outsider’s perspective on how the superyacht world is perceived, and he believes that there is still plenty of work to do to improve the reputation of the industry.

"You will know you’ve succeeded when superyacht owners are no longer depicted on shows like McMafia and Riviera as the ultimate sign of a rich villain,” he said.

However, Arlidge does see plenty of potential for changing this, adding, "I think you’ve got more wiggle room in emerging markets because people listen more to innovative ideas.”

Extreme markets don’t conform to type

Bringing experience from both the superyacht and private jet markets, Winch Design CEO Aino Leena Grapin explained that not all clients have the kind of taste that you might expect.

"We're more likely to do a Zen Japanese interior for a European client, while Chinese clients want the best of Europe,” she revealed. "One of our oldest clients is pushing us to do bold, new things and we have clients in their 30s who are very traditional. You can’t impose your style on them, sometimes you just have to shut up and listen."

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• Curated by María Francisca González
• Architects: SCHWEGER ARCHITEKTEN , SPEECH , Tchoban Voss Architekten
• Area Area of this architecture project Area:  442915 m²
• Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
• Photographs Photographs: Dmitry Chistoprudov
• Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers:   Atlas Schindler , Boon Edam , Cox , GEZE , RDK , Yuanda , thyssenkrupp
• Lead Architects: Peter P. Schweger, Sergei Tchoban
• General Contractor : Renaissance Construction
• Interiors : SPEECH
• Construction Management : Turner Construction
• Project Documentation:  Tchoban Voss Architekten, SPEECH
• Structural Engineering:  Thornton Tomasetti
• Owner/Developer:  ZAO Bashnya Federatsiya
• City:  Moskva
• Country:  Russia
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Text description provided by the architects. Federation Tower is a complex consisting of two skyscrapers – the 63-storey Tower West and the 97-storey Tower East – on lot 13 of the Moscow International Business Centre in Moscow. The two towers stand on the same mixed-use plinth. The most recognizable high-rise landmark in Moscow, Federation Tower has a memorable silhouette in the form of two glass sails which face one another.

The Federation Tower complex ascends to 374 meters (in 2017 the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat – CTBUH – recognized it as the tallest skyscraper in Europe). The design is based on the concept of the vertical city, which was realized here for the first time in the history of modern Russia. Each of the towers has a combination of office and residential floors, interspersed with sports and entertainment functions. The six-storey plinth likewise has offices and a shopping gallery. There are more public facilities on the upper floors of the both towers: a restaurant, an observation deck and a multifunctional public space for events.

The basis of the foundations of the Federation Tower complex is a massive concrete slab. Both buildings rely for their stability on a mighty concrete core whose walls are 1.4 meters thick at its base, as well as on 25 perimeter columns extending all the way through the towers from the foundations to the top storeys. Each column has a base measuring 2 x 1.4 meters. Every 25-30 storeys there are outrigger storeys made from high-strength steel structures. The façades have been glazed using the very latest glazing systems: the surface of the glass reflects the sun’s rays while preserving the optimum temperature in the building. In terms of density, the glass comes close to the thermal performance of a brick wall. At the time when use of the latter technology began at Federation Tower, it was being used in no other skyscraper in the world.

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