In Moscow, began the demolition of a historic building Taganka PBX – BBC Russian

Image caption April 21 to ATS building was a demonstration of protest against the demolition of her

In Moscow, began the demolition of a historic building Taganka PBX. This was reported on Sunday by representatives of the public movement “Arhnadzor”.

Taganskaya PBX was built in the constructivist style in 1929, designed by Soviet architect Basil Martynovich.

In February Mosgornasledie refused to recognize the Taganka phone station object of cultural heritage, noting that the building is “markedly dissonant with the surrounding buildings of the classical”

In early April, the union of administrative and technical inspections of Moscow issued a warrant for the demolition of the station. In its place it is planned to build a complex of apartments premium bunk underground parking.

Previously, architects, architectural historians and experts on the protection of architectural heritage have written to the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin open letter with a request to prevent the demolition of the Taganka telephone exchange.

The appeal was signed by more than 30 well-known architectural institutions, offices and workshops. Response from the capital’s mayor has not yet received.

On April 21, the boulevard was the national assembly in the residents of the meeting format with municipal deputies, where residents and deputies protested against the demolition of the building.

The building Taganka ATS many experts considered a monument of Soviet constructivism.

constructivism is considered to be a Soviet phenomenon that emerged after the October revolution as one of the directions of the avant-garde proletarian art.

one of the best examples of Moscow constructivism is the Palace of culture ZIL in Proletarian district of the capital.

However, this style is not limited to the Soviet architecture. Herald the architectural constructivism find the Eiffel Tower, which combines elements of constructivism and modern.

Many architects-constructivists were inspired by the ideas of the prominent French architect Le Corbusier, to come to Russia and to cooperate with the leaders of the Soviet Association of Contemporary Architects, founded in 1925, and preached the ideas of constructivism and functionalism.