Dom novogo byta (House for the new way of life) at Shvernika street in Cheryomushki, Moscow, 1969 In
Dom novogo byta (House for the new way of life) at Shvernika street in Cheryomushki, Moscow, 1969 In 1965 the city hall approved a design drafted by a group of planners under Natan Osterman for a Dom novogo byta, to hold 2,200 young adults in the Tenth Block of Novyye Chreremushki at 19 ulitsa Shvernika and serve as a prototype for the urban USSR. Its twin sixteen-story towers were to be joined by a service pod containing an auditorium, dance hall, swimming pool, and calisthenics rooms; meals were to be taken in messes rather than in the apartments; there would be extended care for toddlers and after-hours programs for schoolchildren. -- source link
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