Moscow District Council - an administrative building on Moskovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg , built in the style of mature Leningrad constructivism with art deco elements by architect I. I. Fomin in collaboration with V. G. Daugul and B. M. Serebrovsky in 1931 - 1935 - after the division in 1930 of the Moscow-Narva region into separate Moscow and Kirov districts. To date, the building houses the administration of the Moscow region of St. Petersburg and other institutions. The building itself is located exactly in the middle of the avenue.
| Administrative building | |
| Moscow District Council | |
|---|---|
| House of Soviets of the Moscow region | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| City | St. Petersburg , Moskovsky pr. , 129 |
| Architectural style | constructivism |
| Project Author | I.I. Fomin , V.G.Daugul , B. M. Serebrovsky |
| Building | 1931 - 1935 |
| Status |  Identified object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation ( normative act ). (Wikigid database) |
| condition | good |
Content
Architecture
The building consists of a large cylindrical volume on the right flank and two mutually perpendicular buildings. The lateral parts approach the red line of the avenue, and the facade stretched along the avenue, on the contrary, is recessed, which made it possible to turn the space between them into a curdoner .
A tall parallelepiped of a staircase with balconies, above which a cantilever visor is raised, is cut into the five-story cylinder in front. Unlike other constructivism patterns, in this case the parallelepiped does not bear an exclusively functional load - the staircase is enclosed inside a rounded volume, where it freely “soars”, not connected in any way with the wall. Inside the cylindrical case, the most visited departments were collected, located along the outer perimeter and connected by circular galleries bypassing the glazed atrium .
The main administrative units were located in a three-story longitudinal building. The horizontal lines of the windows and pylons of the lower floor are contrasted with a simplified portico of the main entrance lobby. The asymmetry of the building is emphasized by the corner balconies of the right wing, in which the auditorium is located.
With a general monumentality and constructivist functional representativeness, the embossed wall treatment, stone portals and decorative details somewhat blur the rigor of constructivism with art deco reminiscences.
See also
- Vanguard in the architecture of Leningrad
- Administrative-territorial division of St. Petersburg # Stages of development of the administrative-territorial structure of St. Petersburg
- Constructivism (art)
Literature
- Kirikov B.M., Stiglitz M.S. Architecture of the Leningrad avant-garde. Guide. - SPb. : Kolo , 2009 .-- S. 178–183. - 312 p. - ISBN 978-5-901841-49-5 .
- Kurbatov Yu. I. Petrograd - Leningrad - St. Petersburg: Architectural and urban planning lessons. - SPb. : Art-St. Petersburg, 2008 .-- S. 23, 26. - 278 p. - ISBN 978-5-210-01622-5 .