The Balt-Klin-Komplekt company (the owner of the building) refused to say anything about the reconstruction project of the former apartment building.
Monument of regional significance “House of Spiridonov N.V. with an outbuilding" built in 1904 by architect V.I. Schene. It is adjacent to the Malyutka Palace. Since 1920, there were ordinary apartments here; during the war, the building was badly damaged, then it was restored by prisoners of war. Then the house went to the plant management of the Kirov plant, and employees of the design bureau lived in it.
In the 1970s, the building was resettled, and for more than twenty years it stood empty, although some experts claim that for some time the Novosti Press Agency (APN) was located here. In 1990, a fire occurred in an empty house, as a result of which the architectural and artistic decoration of the interiors, the skylight above the staircase, the oak vestibule, etc. were damaged. The monument remained abandoned for another 10 years. In 2000, at the request of Goliam Russian Development LLC, the Eagle Group St. Petersburg workshop, headed by Vladimir Grigoriev, completed a building reconstruction project. The main work was carried out in 2001. The house now has 25 luxury apartments (from 60 to 277 sq.m.), as well as an office and a swimming pool on the ground floor. The housing was rented out, mainly to foreigners, including employees of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg.
How and when the object became the property of Balt-Klin-Komplekt LLC (considered a Gazprom structure) is unknown. At the request of the new owner, the Heritage company developed a project to “adapt the building into an apartment-hotel for the temporary stay of one family of five people.” KGIOP approved it in June 2015. By the way, the KGIOP certificate states that the tenants lived here until 2015. However, a well-known expert on the St. Petersburg luxury real estate market, Vladimir Fedorov, claims that the last tenants were asked to move out at the end of 2008, and since then the house has been empty. “I then had to urgently look for another apartment for my client who lived here,” recalls Mr. Fedorov.
Reconstruction of the building with a total area of 5696 sq.m should be completed by mid-2019.
The description of the reconstruction project involuntarily evokes associations with the princely mansions of the century before last, of course, with adjustments for modern conveniences and engineering achievements. Thus, in the basement there is planned a guest area with a wine cellar and a room for storing collectible cigars, as well as a separate technical area with a server room and a heating point. The first floor is divided into a guest area and a parking lot with technical and utility rooms. There will also be a main entrance group with a reception area, a front hall and a bathroom.
On the second floor there will be a hall with guest bathrooms, a music living room, as well as a fireplace and buffet living room overlooking Furshtatskaya Street. The main room of this level is banqueting hall with stained glass doors opening onto a terrace located on the roof of the parking lot.
The third floor will be occupied by an office with an adjoining fireplace living room, a room with art gallery, billiard room, cinema hall, gift museum storage.
The fourth level will have guest bedrooms with their own bathrooms, study rooms for children and nurseries. On the fifth floor there will be a master bedroom, a dining room with a private kitchen, a mini beauty salon, a “refrigerator” for fur coats and a living room.
Above is a sports area with gym, locker rooms and bathrooms. On the last
The (seventh) level provides a private spa area with a complex of various baths and a swimming pool. On the exploited roof there will be an open terrace with a seating area.
It is obvious that a building with such a set of infrastructure is being reconstructed for a specific person, and one of very high status, and, according to Vladimir Fedorov, it is no secret to anyone that this is the head of Gazprom. “I think it’s logical and correct that the company first did a lot for the city and its citizens, and only after that it began to build a house for itself. Let us remember that it was Gazprom that reconstructed Furshtatskaya Street into a chic promenade, built an ice skating rink in the Tauride Garden, not to mention other facilities. And I’m glad that the historic house on Furshtatskaya is in good hands.”
According to his assessment, in its current state the object costs about 15,000 euros per sq.m of usable area.
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Little is known about the Balt-Klin-Komplekt (BKK) company. In addition to the building on Furshtatskaya Street, 60, she owns the Arena Hall business center on Dobrolyubova Avenue, 16, which she bought in 2012 from Gazenergoprom Development. In addition, according to the portal compromat.ru, BPC and Gazenergoprom Development own Expoforum (49 and 51%, respectively). Two years ago, structures close to Gazprom consolidated more than 95% of Lenexpo shares. Among the major owners of this complex: Gazenergoprom Development (25%), BPC (22.7%) and Variant-Severo-Zapad LLC (20%).
History of the site and buildings.
The territory in which the quarter under study is located became the first district in St. Petersburg to have a strict regular layout. The Liteinaya side has preserved many of the routes of “prospective” streets and building sites dating back to the projects of D. Trezzini in 1712, when this area first began to be populated by the decrees of Peter I. According to the plan drawn up by D. Trezzini, in 1712 from the Liteinaya promising road , resting against the wooden buildings of the Foundry, a series of parallel passages were laid. The areas along the passages parallel to the Neva embankment, laid east of the Liteinaya Road, were given over for the construction of houses for artillery officers and employees of the Liteiny Dvor. In accordance with the plan of St. Petersburg by I. F. Truscott of 1748-1749. the above passages had the names of the lines: 1st line from the Neva, 2nd line from the Neva, etc. Later they were called Artillery Lines or Pushkar Streets. Accordingly, the entire residential settlement, bounded by the current Liteiny Prospekt, Voskresenskaya Embankment, Potemkinskaya and Kirochnaya streets, was called Pushkarskaya or Artilleryskaya. The route of Potemkinskaya Street was laid from Shpalernaya to Kurochnaya in the second half of the 18th century. According to Stroganov’s atlas of 1804, on the territory of the study site there were two sites numbered 613 and 614. In accordance with the detailed plan of St. Petersburg in 1828, compiled by Major General F. F. Schubert, the study site was listed as number 651 and according to the explanations Archpriest Ivanov belonged to the plan. As follows from the archival materials of the City Government of St. Petersburg, by 1837 the site under study was located in the “Foundry part of the 5th quarter at No. 651, and now at No. 65” and belonged to the Titular Councilor “Alexey Vasiliev, son of Vasiliev.” By this time, on this side of Furshtatskaya Street the numbering of plots was odd. This is confirmed by information from the Tsylov Atlas of 1849. In accordance with Tsylov’s atlas, the site under study under No. 65 belonged to the Court Advisor Alexei Vasiliev. On the site there were one-story wooden residential buildings with wooden courtyard buildings. Already by the 1860s. the indicated site belonged to the Liteinaya part, was listed in the 5th quarter under No. 60. In accordance with the archival materials of the City Government of St. Petersburg, it belonged to the collegiate councilor Matashkin. In 1879, the plot was bought by engineer-colonel D.V. Pokogilov. In 1890, Pokotilov sold the plot to O.F. Dzichkanets. The Dzichkanets family owned the site of house No. 60 on Furshtatskaya Street for several years, but no buildings were made here. At the end of the 1890s. the plot was sold to N.V. Spiridonov, the owner of the neighboring mansion on Furshtatskaya Street No. 62. Perhaps the one-story front house no longer existed by that time: the address book of St. Petersburg for 1899 indicated that the plot of house No. 60 was empty. In 1904, the owner of the site, actual state councilor Nikolai Vladimirovich Spiridonov, commissioned the design of a new four-story building from the architect V.I. Shena. In accordance with archival documents, the design of the house on Furshtatskaya Street No. 60, completed by the architect V.I. Shenet for the owner of the site N.V. Spiridonov, was reviewed and approved by the Technical Department of the St. Petersburg City Council on June 14, 1904. The Technical Department prescribed that The construction of a four-story stone outbuilding on a stone basement, shown on the courtyard plan under letter A, and a four-story stone outbuilding with an attic on a stone basement under letter B, must be carried out in accordance with detailed drawings in compliance with general rules. Detailed drawings were signed on June 4, 1904 by the architect V.I. Shenet. There were four apartments in the house, one on each floor. According to the conclusion of the expert of the City Credit Society, architect D. A. Shagin, the newly built stone house No. 60, partly on a residential basement and attics in the courtyard, was quite strong in its capital parts. The house had a marble main staircase and very well decorated apartments. Due to the rich decoration of the apartments, the assessment amount was increased by 20%. In April 1913, N.V. Spiridonov sold his house No. 60 on Furshtatskaya Street to B.A. Ignatiev, an official of the State Chancellery. In September 1916, B. A. Ignatiev sold the house to two persons - I. D. Vasiliev and A. Z. Ivanov. The new owners owned the house until May 1917. In 1918, all homeowners lost their real estate. Until 1924 the house was empty. In 1926, the house was rented from a private tenant I. A. Tsvetkov. At the end of the 1920s. the house was transferred to the usual housing system for those years, under the jurisdiction of ZhAKT. During the war, house No. 60 was damaged (fire and collapse); in 1945-1946 the building was restored by prisoners of war. Subsequently, house No. 60 belonged to the plant management of the Kirov plant, and employees of the design bureau lived in it. Until the 1970s house number 60 on Furshtatskaya street was residential. In the 1970s it was resettled, and for more than twenty years it stood empty, gradually falling into disrepair. In 1990, a fire broke out in a vacant house. As a result of the fire, significant damage was caused to the architectural and artistic decoration of the interiors. The cantilevered front staircase with white marble steps and wrought-iron stair railings was completely destroyed, the skylight above the staircase was destroyed, the oak vestibule and apartment doors, and window blocks with small glazing on the landings were lost. The plaster and stucco decoration of the walls and ceilings were burnt. As a result of the fire, the decorative design of the facades fell into an unsatisfactory condition. Repair work after the fire was not carried out for 10 years. During this period (from 1990 to 2000) the building stood abandoned, which further aggravated the damage caused by the fire. The project for the restoration and reconstruction of the building, with the task of eliminating the consequences of the fire of 1990, was completed in 2000 by ZAO IGL TRUP St. Petersburg, chief architect V. A. Grigoriev. For the design, an architectural and restoration task was issued by the KGIOP, the design documentation was approved by the KGIOP and the KGA. The design solution provided for the conversion of the building into an apartment building with developed infrastructure and luxury apartments. An office and a swimming pool were planned to be located on the ground floor; The pool bowl was located in the volume of the courtyard, covered at the level of the second floor. Elevators were installed in the building, and a second staircase was built. It was planned to recreate the main staircase, while the ceiling with a light lantern was dismantled and recreated in a new place. It was planned to restore and recreate historical interiors damaged by the fire. The project included adding three floors to the building and installing a walking terrace with decorative colonnades in the upper part. On the upper floors, apartments with a large area and the highest level of comfort were designed, offering spectacular views of the Tauride Garden. Mezzanines were installed on the second and fifth floors to fully utilize the internal space. On the front slope of the roof facing the main facade, roof glazing with square Velux type windows was designed. On the side façade, facing the Tauride Garden, there was a large rectangular stained glass window and several additional windows with the dimensions of historical window openings. The main reconstruction and restoration activities of the building were carried out in 2001. The facades were restored, the balcony was recreated, the vestibule and apartment doors were recreated, and the interiors of the ground floor premises were restored. The main staircase was restored in modest decorative forms, without recreating the historical decor, with the clerestory moved two floors up. Restoration of fragments of the interiors of the 2nd-4th floors that survived the fire was never started; only conservation was carried out - the walls with surviving fragments of decor were covered with plasterboard. The building was extended with a new decorative design for the upper part (colonnade) and a large window on the eastern side façade. Technical measures have been completed to modernize the building (elevators, swimming pool, courtyard roofing, etc.). After reconstruction, until 2015, the building functioned as a luxury residential building with apartments for rent (employees of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg lived in them).
The functional purpose of the building is an apartment-hotel for the temporary stay of one family of five people. The main functional zoning is vertical:
The basement floor is divided into two functional areas. On the side of the main facade there is a guest area, which includes a wine cellar and a room for storing collectible cigars. The technical area, separated from the guest area by a blank brick wall, includes rooms for the technical equipment of the building (water distribution device, water meter pumps, server room and individual heating unit.
The first floor is divided into a guest area and a parking lot with technical rooms. Entrance to the parking lot and entrance to the building is provided through the front arched entrance. In addition to parking, on the ground floor there is a loading room and utility rooms, which are connected to other floors by a service staircase with an elevator and a freight lift. Guest rooms located on the side of the main facade include a reception room, antechamber, front hall and a bathroom.
All floors of the building are united by the volume of the main staircase.
The second floor is occupied by a guest area: a hall with guest bathrooms, a music living room, as well as a fireplace and buffet living room overlooking Furshtatskaya Street. The main room is the banquet hall, which has an elongated configuration with stained glass doors along the long side opening onto a terrace located on the roof of the parking lot. On the north side of the hall there are rooms for a guest bathroom and auxiliary rooms with a preparation room. Auxiliary premises are connected to other floors by a service staircase with an elevator.
The third floor is occupied by premises with a business function: an office with an adjoining fireplace living room. These rooms are located along the main facade. They are connected by a separate staircase to the above “private” area. Through the hall of the main staircase, the office is connected to the art gallery. The gallery is connected in series with a billiard room, a cinema hall and two gift museum vaults in which elevators are located.
The fourth, fifth and sixth floors are occupied by a private area.
The fourth floor includes three guest bedrooms with en-suite baths and walk-in closets, study rooms for children and nurseries. Small auxiliary rooms are connected to the children's playroom through the service staircase hall.
The fifth floor is occupied by the main rooms of the owners: a master bedroom with two dressing rooms and bathrooms, a dining room with a private kitchen and “mini-beauty salon” premises. There is also a fur coat storage facility with controlled temperature and humidity. In the extended part of the building there is a living room.
The sixth floor is a sports area with a gym with men's and women's locker rooms and a shared bathroom. On the courtyard side there are technical rooms for servicing the pool and placing ventilation equipment.
The seventh floor is a private spa area. The main object is the pool room. On the southern facade there are spa areas: hammam, sauna, infrared cabin, cryosauna, massage room, solarium.
The exploitable roof is used as an open terrace with a seating area. Partial landscaping is provided.
The implementation of the design solution is carried out by remodeling the internal premises with the dismantling of existing partitions and the installation of new partitions.
The construction of three freight and two passenger elevators is provided.
Basic construction work provided for in the design documentation
Replacement of the main staircase structures with dismantling of flights of stairs at the 4th floor level. Construction of a new staircase connecting the 3rd and 4th floors. Replacement of staircase elements with the installation of additional flights from the 6th to the 7th floors. Dismantling of staircases on two sections of floors of the 1st floor with the installation of new sections of floors in place of the dismantled stairs. Construction of an opening for vehicles to pass through. Rear (yard) wing superstructure. The wall structure is lightweight hollow ceramic brick, floor slabs are made of monolithic reinforced concrete, the foundation is a monolithic reinforced concrete slab. In the middle part of the building, it is planned to replace the load-bearing structures (steel frame) of the 7th floor and install wooden frames of complex shape. At the level of the 6th floor, it is planned to install steel trusses supporting the reinforced concrete basin of the pool. After dismantling the pool structure, a parking lot will be built in the courtyard on the 1st floor and a winter garden on the 2nd floor.
Restoration of interiors and facades. Restoration methods were considered in the state historical and cultural examination of documentation at the “Draft Design” stage, received a positive examination conclusion and were agreed with KGIOP.
The design documentation includes a defect list and a project for restoration repairs (repairs with restoration elements) of the facades and interiors of the building. The project provides for the following work: On the facades:
Repair and restoration of historic metal decor, including two cast flag holders and wrought iron grilles on the basement windows.
Restoration of the main facade, including granite cladding of the base, plaster finishing with painting, repair of the balustrade fence of the balcony, slopes of window openings, repair and partial reconstruction of the profiled cornice.
Repair of plaster finishing of arched gate passage. Repair of side and courtyard facades (plastering, painting. In interiors:
Repair and restoration of historical interiors and their fragments. Repair and restoration of a wooden vestibule.
(Act based on the results of the state historical and cultural examination of project documentation justifying
carrying out work to preserve the object cultural heritage regional significance "House of Spiridonov N.V.
Previously, the high-rise dominant feature of the quarter was the Kosmodemyansk Church; in 1937 it was “replaced” by a bakery
Artillery Sloboda
The current Central District was first called the Moscow Side, since it was closest to the abandoned capital. And in this place, along the stream that flowed along the line of Chernyshevsky Avenue, under Peter I, the noblest people of the city, relatives and associates of the tsar, settled. There was even the first theater in the city at the palace of his sister Natalya. The strict grid of streets in the area with residential blocks in the form of highly elongated rectangles and a square park next door (the future Tauride Garden) was planned by the architect Domenico Trezzini. A few years later, he proposed a similar solution for the new city center on Vasilyevsky Island. Typical streets parallel to the Neva were ideal for housing military units, in this case artillerymen, where the nearby Liteiny Dvor worked (at the site of the entrance to the current Liteiny Bridge). Hence the first names of the streets – Artillery and Pushkarskie. The features of a military settlement were recognizable in the area until 1917, which did not prevent it from also being a center of mansions and fashionable apartments. Numerous barracks have still been preserved, in our quarter there are gendarmerie barracks in the courtyard of house No. 40 on Furshtatskaya. And one of the “richest” buildings is the palace of Grand Duchess Olga (sister of Nicholas II) on Tchaikovsky Street, 46–48. The proximity of the Tauride Palace, chosen at the beginning of the twentieth century as an experimental site for democratic legislative power, unexpectedly gave the area a new slant - political.
The factory sells hot bread directly from its wall, as if from an oven.