🏛 Narkomfin Building

Новинский б-р, 25, корп. 1

Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist communal house on pilotis (stilts) with ribbon windows.

The building was built in 1928–1930 by Moisei Ginzburg, Ignaty Milinis and engineer Sergei Prokhorov; Ginzburg called it an "experimental house of a transitional type".
The People's Commissar of Finance Nikolai Milyutin built himself a two-level penthouse on the roof, in a volume intended for a ventilation chamber.
The colours of the flats were chosen by the Bauhaus professor Hinnerk Scheper; the brightest tone was applied to the ceilings.
Residents were offered meals in the canteen of the communal block and a mechanical laundry for their linen.
The building has three times been on the list of the "100 world buildings under threat of destruction"; in 2016–2020 it was restored by Ginzburg Architects.

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