Architecture of the USSR
What makes this building from other high-rises? First of all, the convergence of the rectangular constructive basis with the general picturesque formation. The soft silhouette, sculptural volumes of plastic - these are the features of this work. Structuring of complex volume was closer vertikalizm modular building Stalin's empire, than the rigid grid of the 1960s. However, the new facility, with its clear desire for emotional expressionism lacks even a hint of retrospektnye formy.Svoey crowning part of the building in the central part of the city panoramas. Silhouette of this part does not argue with the domes and spiers, because it contains the basic coordinates of their forms. From the magazine "Architecture of the USSR" See also Strange Soviet Buildings Ministry of Road Tbilisi, Georgia, 1975
