Examination of building labeled as St. Petersburg city-planning error to be completed in 1.5 week
In the near future, Saint Petersburg State Construction Supervision and Expertise Department will start the survey of a Stock and Commodity Exchange building, recognized by officials and architects as a “city-planning mistake”, Alexander Viktorov, the head of Saint Petersburg Committee for City Planning and Architecture informed at a press conference on June 11, a REGNUM correspondent reports. According to him, the expertise will be done in a week and a half.
According to Viktorov, the main defect of building is “neither soft and nor Russian finale of the building”: he means the overhanging roof, but not domes and turrets familiar to St. Petersburg residents, besides, the height of the Exchange building (the 64-meter-long building is spoiling the view of the Spit of Vasylyevsky Island), and also the color of the building. As the Committee head believes, the dark color of facades is “irrelevant” on the background of light-colored buildings of the Naval Museum. It is “necessary to lighten up the facades,” said Viktorov. Viktorov generally stressed, that “those who have built the Exchange building would ‘understand their mistake and will level down the building’. He underlined that the city did not intend to “backtrack” from the building. We “will double check and redraft versions, which will allow eliminating the negative influence of this building,” he said.
It is worth mentioning, early in June, the Saint Petersburg City-Planning Council recognized the Stock and Commodity Exchange building on the Vasylyevsky Island a “mistake in town-planning.” According to results of the session in which also Alexander Vakhmistrov participated, the vice-governor of Saint Petersburg, a resolution was adopted to advise the builders to level down the building by two stories (to a height of 48-51 meters).
20:02 06/11/2008
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