Former telephone station will become a hotel
Renovation project for the building of former ATS at Bakuninskaya Street, 5, bld. 3, has been developed according to an urban land development plan, providing for creation of a hotel, apartments for longtime accommodation and retail function with total area of 17 thous. sq.m and maximum height of 45 m. Though the building, constructed in 1927-1928, has no conservation status, the project provides for its preservation.
ATS is of T-shaped layout — upon the project its front part is to be renewed according to the archive materials in initial color — with vertical wine-colored stripes (now the building is completely grey) and authentic window sashes. Retail and hotel lobby are provided for in this main part, supposedly, as an atrium with two tiers of windows and stairs inspired by 1920s.
Modern volume literally hangs over the ATS, standing out with a console and separating visually with a spatial «break». As opposed to the lower historic part, where concrete and plaster are preserved, tinted glass as well as panels of fibre reinforced concrete are mainly used for the upper part.
The old and the new parts are also divided by function: the lower part — apartments, the upper part — three-star hotel, for creation of which the project designers suggest dismantling of elongated part of the old building behind the façade.
Designers: Architectural Bureau AI
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