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In late June 2021, despite the lack of both authorization for working on the historical site and a critical condition warning, demolition started from the back of the building. The dormitory is the dominant historical building on Shchekavytsa Hill, proportionate to the surrounding environment with enormous compositional meaning in the landscape. It contains monumental decorative elements, and the silhouette of the building alludes to historical architecture. This building was constructed in the early 1950s under the design of architect Anatoliy Zhukov and is one of the notable examples of the architecture of its time. The demolition of this three-story dormitory on Olehivska street began in June 2021. “Radar” factory buildings, 35 Predslavynska Street The Magnett Business Center is being built on the site of the demolished complex. The structure was remarkably circular, with four vertical glass apertures. The final building in the complex to be destroyed was the Kyivpastrans substation, built in 1930-1931 in the Constructivist style.
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The first to be destroyed was the four-story building #135, an example of 1950s non-residential architecture decorated with pilasters and rosettes, and it also had a decorative cornice and arched lintels in the windows of the top floor.Īfter that came the destruction of the 1908 Vasylkivska pumping station in April 2019: a representative of early 20th-Century industrial architecture with characteristic complex cornice patterns made with brickwork. After the depot was torn down and the “French Quarter 2” apartment complex built in its place, the demolition of the industrial buildings on the street’s red line also began.
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Mansion, 8B Nyzhnoiurkivska StreetĪ complex of historical industrial buildings situated next to the trolley depot was preserved for a long time at the end of Velika Vasylkivska Street. The “architectural monument” status is not an obstacle either: a corrupt official can help to remove this status, and then the building is brought to ruin and destroyed.ĭemolished buildings December 2018. But sometimes none of that is needed: they can demolish the building intact and then retroactively state that it was in critical condition. Sometimes they refer to it as a “restoration,” for which they create fake housing cooperatives that do nothing but bring the house to a state of emergency. If they mainly demolished decrepit and lop-sided buildings in the 80s, then now they are deliberately bringing buildings to critical condition by dismantling the roof, removing the glazing from the windows, and digging tunnels under the foundation. And there are almost no one-story background buildings left: several two-story, as well as three- and four-story buildings, are fated for destruction.
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Developers want to build in the city center, but there are no free plots yet. But only during the mayorship of Vitaliy Klychko has the destruction of the city’s historical legacy been put on the assembly line. The destruction of Kyiv’s heritage took place under the previous mayors-Oleksandr Omelchenko and Leonid Chernovetskyi. And corrupt deputies and bureaucrats are coming to help them. Developers are willingly committing crimes against the history of the city for the sake of profit. This is because the situation fundamentally changed: now the goal of construction is not to systematically ensure living space for city residents, but to earn revenue. In the 2000s, demolitions of historical architecture increased. The main demolitions were run-down one- and two-story buildings, including valuable examples of iconic buildings. Building demolitions intensified in the 1970s and 1980s, when residential issues were not as urgent compared to the 1940s.