/ 2025 / Architecture / Buildings

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Ekaterina Busygina, Russian Federation

The architecture of the residential buildings is in the tradition of apartment blocks erected at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1940s and 1950s. Instead of literally copying architectural details from the past, however, the architects have devised a new way of filling the traditional façade structure with detail. This iconic office building with its crystalline façade enters into an interesting and incisive dialogue with the surrounding buildings, which are based on the architectural and urban-planning traditions characteristic of this district of Moscow.