Tsentrosoyuz building
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The Tsentrosoyuz Building or Centrosoyuz Building[1] is a government structure in Moscow constructed in 1933 by Nicolai Kolli and Le Corbusier. In 1929, the complete set of construction plans for the Tsentrosoyuz building was sent to Moscow and work was started. However, delays were encountered due to the materials shortages caused by Stalin's First Five-Year Plan. The building is a mixed-use facility with office space for 3,500 personnel, as well as a restaurant, lecture halls, a theater, and other facilities. The building is made of reinforced concrete, with sixteen-inch-thick blocks of red tuff stone from the Caucasus serving as insulation between an outside temperature of -40°F and an interior at 66°F. Soviet authorities scrapped plans to air-condition the building. The address of the building is 39 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa.
The Tsentrosoyuz Building was the headquarters of all the soviets, the worker's councils, in the Soviet Union at that day. Nowadays, it is the home of Goskomstat (Russian: Госкомстат), the Russian State Committee for Statistics.
The building was criticized by fellow Swiss architect Hannes Meyer as being "an orgy of glass and concrete". Russian constructivist Alexander Vesnin however called it "the best building to arise in Moscow for over a century"[citation needed].
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