The House on Mosfilmovskaya is being restored in Moscow after the UAV attack. Here is its history

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The House on Mosfilmovskaya is being restored in Moscow after the UAV attack. Here is its history

In Moscow, the facade of the “House on Mosfilmovskaya” is being restored: on May 4, a drone struck one of its residential high-rises. At least three apartments were damaged; in one of them, walls collapsed. Judging by fresh photos, industrial climbers are now working on the building, and a crane is standing below.

According to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, no one was injured during the attack, and residents were evacuated. Because of the fire risk, the elevator in the building shut down, so people had to walk down from the upper floors. As one resident told journalists, the descent from the 36th floor, which was the one hit by the projectile, took 15 minutes.

The “House on Mosfilmovskaya” has two high-rises: 53 and 34 stories, 213 and 130 meters tall. They are joined by an eight-story section. The project was completed by 2012 and was considered a landmark at the time: Moscow had comparatively few glass skyscrapers then, and Moscow City in the neighboring district had not yet managed to sprawl. The project’s architect, Sergei Skuratov, said that the building was “a long-awaited answer for our entire industry to the question of what professionals in Russia can do if they want to and if no one gets in their way.”

Even before construction was finished, the building was praised and received professional awards, and at the same time it was nearly demolished. In June 2010, the authorities deemed the skyscraper unauthorized construction and wanted the developer to dismantle the upper part with apartments that had already been sold. At first, the discussion was about 22 floors, then 7. Skuratov disagreed, as did many Moscow architects who appealed to City Hall and tried to defend the building. A year later, the authorities changed their minds and left everything as it was.