Kotelnicheskaya Embankment

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment

Infobox Skyscraper
building_name=Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building


built=1952
use=Residential
location=Moscow,Russia
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style=Late Stalinist architecture
top_floor=
roof=167 meters
floor_count=32
floor_area=
elevator_count=
architect=Dmitry Chechylin, Andrei Rostkovsky
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Kotelnicheskaya Embankment ( _ru. Котельническая Набережная) is a street on the northern bank of Moskva River in central Tagansky District of Moscow, Russia. It spans from the mouth of Yauza River (west) to the point one block west from Bolshoy Krashokholmsky Bridge (east), where it changes name to Goncharnaya Embankment.

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building is one of seven stalinist skyscrapers laid down in September, 1947 and completed in 1952, designed by Dmitry Chechylin (then Chief Architect of Moscow) and Andrei Rostkovsky. Main tower has 32 levels (including mechanical floors) and is 176 meters tall.

The building also incorporates a 9-storey apartment block facing Moskva River, designed by the same architects in 1938 and completed in 1940. Originally build in stern early stalinist style, with wet stucco wall finishes, it was re-finished in terra cotta panels in line with the main tower and acquired ornate pseudo-Gothic crowns over its 12-storey raised corners and center tower. By the end of World War II, the side wing was converted to multi-family kommunalka housing, in a contrast to the planned elite status of the main tower.

Main tower, of conventional steel frame structural type, has a hexagonal cross-section with three side wings (18-storey, including two mechanical floors). While it is not exceptionally tall or massive, the "upward surge" of five stepped-up layers, from a flat 9-storey side wing to the spire, produce a visual image of a far superior structure. The structure hides behind itself a so-called "Shvivaya Gorka", a hill with historical architecture and a maze of steeply inclined streets. Chechulin was initially criticized for complete disregard of this area, but his bureaucratic influence brushed off any criticisms.

Notable residents of the building include(d):
* Galina Ulanova (her apartment is preserved as a museum)
* Yuri Lyubimov, a kommunalka dweller
* Faina Ranevskaya
* Andrey Voznesensky

Other notable buildings

* Church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki by Joseph Bove
* Mission of Republic of Tatarstan
* MDM bank headquarters http://www.mdmbank.com

External links

* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=kotelnicheskayanaberezhnaya-moscow-russia Building data at emporis.com]
* Russian: [http://retro.samnet.ru/skyscrapers/moscow_skyscrapers.htm History of Moscow Skyscrapers]


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