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Wolkenbügel, “cloud-irons” skyscrapers. Moscow.
El Lissitzky and Mart Stam [Note 1]
In 1923–1925 El Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers (Wolkenbügel, “cloud-irons”). A series of eight such structures was intended to mark the major intersections of the Boulevard Ring in Moscow. Each Wolkenbügel was a flat three-story, 180-meter-wide L-shaped slab raised 50 meters above street level. It rested on three pylons (10×16×50 meters each), placed on three different street corners. One pylon extended underground, doubling as the staircase into a proposed subway station; two others provided shelter for ground-level tram stations.
Text: Horizontal skyscraper & Constructivist architecture: ASNOVA and rationalism
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*Note 1: Mart Stam appears as an author in this link Horizontal skyscraper](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhr7p6BnGu1qcx1mko1_500.jpg)
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Wolkenbügel, “cloud-irons” skyscrapers. Moscow.
El Lissitzky and Mart Stam [Note 1]
In 1923–1925 El Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers (Wolkenbügel, “cloud-irons”). A series of eight such structures was intended to mark the major intersections of the Boulevard Ring in Moscow. Each Wolkenbügel was a flat three-story, 180-meter-wide L-shaped slab raised 50 meters above street level. It rested on three pylons (10×16×50 meters each), placed on three different street corners. One pylon extended underground, doubling as the staircase into a proposed subway station; two others provided shelter for ground-level tram stations.
Text: Horizontal skyscraper & Constructivist architecture: ASNOVA and rationalism
Images: Source
*Note 1: Mart Stam appears as an author in this link Horizontal skyscraper
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