The Tver Business Center (formerly the Tverskaya Hotel, colloquially Rumka [1] ) is a 77-meter-high building located in Tver in Smolensky Lane, near the intersection with Vagzhanova Street, in the Central District . Years of construction: 1977-1989. The chief designer is Zinovy Moiseevich Yarmolinsky (Jerusalem, Israel), a designer known in the USSR (as well as in Russia and Israel). Architect - Olga Leonidovna Palieva (Tver). The owner of the building is Tver OJSC [2]
| Sight | |
| Business Center "Tver" | |
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| Hotel "Tverskaya" | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| City | Tver |
| Architectural style | brutalism |
| Project Author | Z. M. Yarmolinsky O. L. Palieva |
| Building | 1967 - 1989 |
| Site | tverinformburo.ru/bc-tve... |
The building has a spatial monolithic reinforced concrete shell, in the form of a truncated pyramid, as was supposed to save space and the possibility of natural lighting of the hotel lobby. The use of spatial monolithic reinforced concrete shell makes the building unique. In total, the building has 22 floors, including technical. Above the bearing shell are 15 floors of hotel rooms made of prefabricated reinforced concrete (reinforced concrete) structures manufactured by the local house-building plant. The building has a prefabricated monolithic stiffness core. The foundation of the building rests on 900 deep concrete piles of driven piles (30 rows of 30 piles, in increments of 1 m). A powerful monolithic reinforced concrete stepped grillage with a height of 5 m is installed above the piles.
The Tverskaya Hotel was designed by the Tver Design Institute Kaliningrazhdanproekt. The building was designed by engineer Z. M. Yarmolinsky, the chief designer of the design institute. The test calculation on the computer was performed by the Moscow Design Institute "Mosproject-1." Instrumental monitoring of the grillage of the building was performed by the Central Moscow Institute "Fundamentproekt".
The building is sheathed with insulating composite aluminum plates, the balcony part is glazed. The building has seven elevators [1] .
“Tverskaya” is one of the long-term construction projects: it was supposed to be commissioned back to the 1980 Olympics and used to accommodate guests of the Olympics. However, the hotel could not be completed on time, and work was stopped [1] [3] . Since then, the building has been virtually unused.
Information has repeatedly appeared in the press about the emergency condition of the building (unacceptable slope, erosion of the foundation with groundwater), but they were refuted by its owners with links to the results of the examination [2] [4] .
A technical survey conducted in 2005 by the engineering firm Tverstroidiagnozproekt recognized the building as serviceable. As it is written in the report: “the category of the technical condition of the supporting and enclosing structures of the building is operational”.
The building has been used as a television center for a long time: the Tverskoy prospekt television company is located in it, and there is a television antenna on the roof [3] .
In 2007, repairs began in the building, and it is planned to arrange an office center in the building [1] .
In 2007, work began on the conversion of the building. Alexey Ekimenko, construction manager: “Previously designed rooms are outdated and do not meet modern needs for people to live in.” As a result, it was decided to redesign the building into an office center - once in America skyscrapers appeared just like office buildings. On 15 floors of the building will accommodate 200 offices of different sizes. “It will be possible to rent at least the entire floor,” says Alexei Ekimenko. In addition to office employees, ordinary citizens will be able to attend the skyscraper: there will be an observation deck. According to the work plan, they were supposed to be completed in 2009. To date, the external repair of the Wineglass is completed, seven high-speed elevators are installed in the building, work continues.
In 2013, the opening took place, “Shot Glass” was called the “Tver Business Center”, it houses office space, and there is also a concert hall.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 From the “glass” - the head is spinning // Arguments and Facts -Tver. - No. 4 (723) dated January 23, 2008 (verified on September 11, 2008 )
- ↑ 1 2 One of the most famous long-term construction projects in the Tver Region opens - the Tverskaya Hotel (inaccessible link) // News - Tver Branch - 08/24/2006 (checked on 09/11/2008)
- ↑ 1 2 From the “Glass” the center will be reborn (inaccessible link) // eTver.Ru . - 11/27/2007 (checked on 09/11/2008)
- ↑ The “shot glass” building is in danger? // TverNet.ru . - 02/28/2006 (checked on 09/11/2008)