- Tsentrosoyuz building
The Tsentrosoyuz Building or Centrosoyuz Building [ [http://imagesvr.library.upenn.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?type=boolean&q1=Centrosoyuz+&cat1=Uniform+Title&op1=And&q2=Jeanneret-Gris,+Charles+Edouard&cat2=Primary+Artist+or+Studio&thsz=12&txsz=50&slsz=1&c=fisher&sstrt=1&res=thumbnail Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection] ] ( _ru. Центросоюз) is a government structure in
Moscow constructed in 1933 byLe Corbusier andNicolai Kolli . In 1929, the complete set of construction plans for the Tsentrosoyuz building was sent toMoscow and work was started. However, delays were encountered due to the materials shortages caused byStalin 'sFirst Five-Year Plan . The building is a mixed-use facility with office space for 3,500 personnel, as well as arestaurant , lecture halls, atheater , and other facilities. The building is made ofreinforced concrete , with sixteen-inch-thick blocks of redtuff stone from theCaucasus serving as insulation between an outside temperature of -40°F and an interior at 66°F. Soviet authorities scrapped plans to air-condition the building. The address of the building is 39Myasnitskaya Ulitsa .The Tsentrosoyuz Building was the headquarters of all the soviets, the worker's councils, in the Soviet Union at that day. Nowadays, it is the home of
Goskomstat ( _ru. Госкомстат), the Russian State Committee for Statistics.The building was criticized by fellow Swiss
architect Hannes Meyer as being "an orgy of glass and concrete". Russian constructivistAlexander Vesnin however called it "the best building to arise in Moscow for over a century"Fact|date=February 2007.Photos
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External links
* [http://www.maps-moscow.com/index.php?chapter_id=182&data_id=31&do=view_single Moscow architectural preservation society]
* [http://www.eatlas.ru/scripts/ymap.dll/english/dmap.html?name=1167716804622&w=570&h=445&]
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