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CMEA Building (the Book House)

Здание СЭВ («дом-книжка», Москва)
USSRМосква1964–1969Public buildingsFunctionalism
The complex of the Secretariat of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was built in 1964–1969 to a design by Mikhail Posokhin, Ashot Mndoyants and Vladimir Svirsky. The high-rise block of two gently curved wings resembles an open book — a notable symbol of late Moscow modernism.
Комплекс секретариата Совета экономической взаимопомощи построен в 1964–1969 годах по проекту Михаила Посохина, Ашота Мндоянца и Владимира Свирского. Высотный корпус из двух плавно изогнутых крыльев напоминает раскрытую книгу — заметный символ позднего московского модернизма.

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