Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage Explained

55.7722°N 37.6658°W

Truck garage in Novoryazanskaya Street
Architectural Style:	Avant-garde
Structural System:	Masonry, steel roof structure
Client:	City of Moscow
Location Town:	27 Novoryazanskaya Street, Moscow 55.7722°N 37.6658°W
Location Country:	Russia
Start Date:	1926
Completion Date:	1929
Architect:	Konstantin Melnikov
Structural Engineer:	Vladimir Shukhov

Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal. This garage is still used as such, and houses Moscow's Fourth Bus Park.

See also

• Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
• Konstantin Melnikov
• Vladimir Shukhov

References

• Truck Garage, Novo-Ryazanskaya Street
• Elizabeth Cooper English: «Arkhitektura i mnimosti»: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition", a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

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• Model of Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage
• Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

• Мельников К.С.: "Архитектура моей жизни. Творческая концепция. Творческая практика." — М.: Искусство, 311 стр., 1985
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