MARR Plaza is located a 10-minute walk from the Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station - these are not yet frank industrial zones of Magistralny streets, but they are no longer the city center. Some intermediateness (not in the sense of "restlessness" - rather, the golden mean) of the location positions the new building not only in space, but also in time. The top floors of the nine-story office offer a view of the Moscow City skyscrapers - if you don't look down. If you omit it, you can find an abandoned car depot, a parking lot, several decaying barracks and an old boiler room. In this contrasting socio-economic landscape, MARR Plaza occupies a healthy niche of the middle class - stable, solid, self-confident, not prone to extremes. However, he is not alone - office centers are displacing old buildings from the area, gradually changing the nature of the urban environment: they are turning it from a ruined industrial into a strict business one.
It must be admitted that MARR Plaza is transforming the environment quite intensively. The rectangular volume harmoniously continues a series of brick Stalinist houses, lined up here along the Zvenigorodskoe highway. Only on closer examination it turns out that this is not one volume, but two - the second, rear, slightly higher and slightly displaced in relation to the parallelepiped facing Makeeva Street. As the authors of the project explain, the decision was born out of the need to provide insolation to the neighboring residential building. The technique was continued on the facade: the windows of each floor were shifted by half a step, as a result of which a terracotta weave in the form of a "herringbone" is formed on the facade. The vast plane of the facade, threatening with monotony, thus received rhythm and relief - and began to resemble expensive hand-made fabric, something like tweed. The friendly, warm red color of ceramics, which is abundantly used in the decoration, adds to the similarity with the fabric. The striped texture of the panels dividing the windows, when illuminated in the evening, looks like a palisade of candles, which makes it seem to warm up throughout the area.
The rear facades are slightly less ornate: here solid glass stripes alternate with ceramic ones. The horizontal rhythm traditional for office buildings is enlivened by massive aluminum blinds. They not only protect from the sun (this part of the building gets the most light), but also add depth to the facade, as they work like stereo plates, making the picture change depending on the point of view and the angle of incidence of light.
It is worth paying attention to the fact that the facades were made as modular, or elemental - that is, the panels (glass, ceramics, enamel) were assembled at the factory, which made it possible to assemble them as quickly as possible without additional processing. The building generally demonstrates a commitment to innovation: for example, this is the only office building in Moscow with a spacing of load-bearing columns of 8 by 12 meters - ideal for arranging office furniture. The interiors are as functional as possible - a central core with elevators and a free layout (the authors interpret it as a building-machine, where a clear logical scheme of the internal space allows you to get the maximum result from the process). The double-height entrance hall is finished, like the facade, with ceramic panels, as well as marble and adding warmth
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The office center, the construction of which began in 2008, in the midst of the crisis, was successfully leased out on a long-term (for a period of 10 years) lease to large international companies. For this he received the Commercial Real Estate Awards Moscow 2011 (CRE) in the category "A class business center", and was also recognized as the best architectural project of the year in the field of commercial real estate.
