🏛 Melnikov House

Кривоарбатский пер., 10

A house of two intersecting cylinders with hexagonal windows, built by Konstantin Melnikov for himself in 1927–1929.

Architect Konstantin Melnikov built the house for himself and his family in 1927–1929, a rare private house in Soviet Moscow.
The house consists of two cylinders of equal diameter cutting into each other, forming a figure eight in plan.
Its signature feature is the hexagonal windows: the rear tower has 57 of them, and the only octagonal window is in the living room.
The Melnikov family moved in in November 1929; after his parents' deaths, the architect's son, the artist Viktor Melnikov, lived here for the rest of his life.
In 2014 the house became a federal monument and a branch of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture.

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