Begovaya: From Prefabrication to Brutalism
Two apartment blocks on the same street, decades apart, answering industrialized construction differently.
A short walk that works because the comparison is so direct: Andrei Burov’s decoratively cast Lace House and Andrei Meerson’s severe, piered House on Legs stand on the same stretch of Leningradsky Prospekt, thirty years and an entirely different architectural language apart.
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- Lace HouseAndrei Burov and Boris Blokhin
An apartment block on Leningradsky Prospekt built from large prefabricated concrete panels, its facade cast with a repeating pattern that gave the building its name — an argument that industrialized housing construction did not have to mean plain surfaces.
- House on LegsAndrei Meerson
An apartment block for aviation industry workers on Leningradsky Prospekt, raised on massive concrete piers above an open ground level.