"Book-building №3" (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / ulitsa Novy Arbat, 19
 office building, high-rise, 1968_construction, Modern (architecture)

Historical reference:
One of the four 26-floors administrative buildings of Novy Arbat, "house-book", was built in 1963-1968. It was then, according to the project of a group of architects (M. Posokhin, A. Mdoyants, V. G. Makarevich, B. Tkhor, Sh. Airapetov, I. Pokrovsky, Yu. Popov, A. Zaitsev), a new urban ensemble was formed, where a single idea everything was subordinated - from the general direction of the spatial structure to the details of landscaping and advertising.

The rapid spread of two facades located at an angle to each other creates the impression of the lightness of the structure, which, as it were, grows out of a horizontal two-story stylobate. The facades are dissected by rhythmic bands of solid horizontal windows. The two middle floors - the twelfth and thirteenth - have a higher height and a different pattern of window sashes. They housed halls of colleges, offices of the leadership of ministries, as well as buffets.

The lobby of the first and second floors of the administrative building is separated from the commercial premises by two vertical walls-diaphragms. From the lobby, using escalators, the employees get to the third floor, into a large hall, and then into the cloakroom. The cloakroom and the escalator hall on the third floor had an exit to the flat roof of the stylobate, where it was planned to place recreation and sports areas for employees of two ministries located in this structure.

The building has eight high-speed elevators with a total capacity of 130 people. The connection between the floors is also ensured by four service stairs.

The height of a typical floor is assumed to be 3 m (from floor to ceiling). Here, two corridors diverge from the elevator hall located in the center of the building. On both sides of the corridor there are service rooms. At the ends of the house there are fire escapes and toilets.

To the rear facade of the building adjoins the premises of the former conference hall, connected to the administrative building by a covered glazed passage
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Coordinates:   55°45'6"N   37°35'19"E
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