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- |Nevsky Prospekt|Custom1|O:267| , 28
- 1902-04. Architect P.Suzor
- Now the House of Books
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- Opposite the |Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan|Custom1|O:26|
- rises a building with a corner tower that was
- originally built for the Singer shareholding
- society. During its construction the latest
- achievements of Russian building technology
- were being used: steel framework, filled with
- brick-work on mortar, and ferro-concrete
- structures. The first two stories are faced with
- red polished granite, the next three ones - with
- gray hammered granite, and the upper one -
- with gray polished granite. The Singer Company
- was eager to get the licence to put up a
- skyscraper. However, the city administration did
- not deviate from the law regulating the height of
- buildings in the capital; they just gave a
- permission to complete the building with a
- cupola-tower, topped with a globe. Enormous
- show-windows, their outlines and proportions, as
- well as the abundance of stylized decorative
- sculpture on the facades (sculptors A.Adamson
-