"Bolshoy, 67" Residential Complex Project

The residential complex has been designed to be built on the corner of Bolshoy prospect and the 20th line of Vasilyevsky Island.

The new building is comprised of two parts of different height. The lower 4-storey part faces the Bolshoy prospect of Vasilyevsky Island, while the higher one is set back from the prospect and shapes the front line of the 20th line. Such a street corner structure with a varying height is typical of the Vasilyevsky Island area.

The façades facing the prospect have been designed according to the New Classicism tradition. The higher part of the building along the 20th line is divided into four sections, each with its own façade style, which is not uncommon for the historical buildings of the Island lines. Every façade has its own distinctive proportions and bears traits of a particular architectural epoque. The first section from the Bolshoy prospect makes use of classicist principles but applies no order elements, which is typical of revenue houses of the late 19th century. The façade is decorated with shallow rustication imitating a wall masonry of large stone blocks and with recessed architraves around the windows. This modest decoration is enriched with three large rectangular bay-windows.

The second part bears traits of a minimalistic contemporary style. The simple lines forming the laconic geometrical grid of piers and windows are emphasized by the fine details and the nobleness of the durable modern materials used.

The next part of the complex refers to constructivist architecture through its horizontal windows, massive bay windows with a pier in the middle, vast openings of the ground floor, the simple surface of the walls. 

Narrow vertical windows, fine lines of the balcony slabs, rounded corners of trapezoidal bay-windows, semidull texture of the façade brick contrasting with the masonry of the ground floor — all these are features of the Art Nouveau style, to which the fourth and the last part of the building is referring.