[THAT DELICIOUS MAGAZINE BOLSHOI GOROD HAS PRODUCED AN ONLINE GUIDE TO THE FINER-YET-LESS-KNOWN WALKS, SHOPS, CHURCHES AND RESTAURANTS OF MOSCOW. I AM TRANSLATING SOME OF PIECES I PARTICULARLY LIKED. CROSSPOSTED AT TANGENTIALIA.]
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| Melnikov's House by Lidiya Koloyarskaya. (2009). |
In 1929, the architect Konstantin Melnikov constructed this detached house for his family: it was the most futuristic monument and the only private construction of the Soviet period in Moscow. The building is made of two vertical cylinders of varying heights and intersecting each other. From the positioning of the fifty-seven hexagonal windows, it is impossible to guess at the number of floors in the house: one cylinder has three storeys, the other two, and of course there is an open terrace on the roof.
Address: Krivoarbatsky pereulok, Number 10.
Need more? Check out this superb set of photographs by Igor Palmin of this avant-garde masterpiece.
You know, you really should go see this before it falls apart completely. A family feud and court cases mean that it is not being maintained, and is in danger of irreparable damage.
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