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House at Zubovskaya. Moscow

Mizin V.

House at Zubovskaya. Moscow
1986

Moscow Art Center

The building consisting of three units is an active and self-contained object in Zubovskaya Square. One of the units separates the other two from each other, blocking the Garden Ring Road and serving as a reference point for those moving up and down the thoroughfare. The contours of the building and the simple yet stately structure of its facades evoke thoughts about collectivism and man's perfection. Its architectural forms resembling those of the structures built in the 1940-1950s are not totally devoid of present-day refinement.

The competition for the right to construct Moscow’s Zubovskaya Square was necessitated by the need to complete the set of well-known buildings lying on the Garden Ring, of similar design to the Ministry of foreign Affairs building and the Peking hotel. Eight buildings of this type were originally planned. The complex of administrative buildings constructed in a historical style negates the present situation and traditional articulation of the space of the square, juxtaposing it to the inhuman buildings of the Stalin era.

 

Utopia Foundation, Moscow