A lot chosen for construction is located at southeastern extremities of two adjacent blocks limited by the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, B.Gruzinskaya and both Brestkaya streets. From the start the authors had an intention to unite the space of both blocks. An existing drive-under arch-bridge in the beginning of the 1st Brestskaya street near Mayakovsky square became a city-planning precedent. The bridge linking the buildings on both sides of the 1st Brestskaya is of a flying, nearly symbolic nature in spite of the fact that it consists of three levels where a restaurant is housed.

The final project variant had a powerful spatial-plastic eruption at the corner of the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya that became the compositional and conceptual center of the whole complex. From the outside the eccentric building has two truncated converging glass cones belted with a wide ribbon of an electronic scoreboard at the level of the fourth floor and in the interior it is a glass cylinder and the cylinder is enlaced with winding stairs connecting shopping halls of three lower levels. The upper office floors inside the glazed part accommodate an atrium with a ramped stair and round galleries offering panoramic views of the capital’s center.

In this case city-planning and compositional priorities conflicted with functional requirements and logic of their manifestations in the image characteristic of the building. The building situated between the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and 1st Brestskaya streets is an office one while its vis-a-vis in the 1st Brestskaya street is an apartment house with a fitness center on the third floor. The authors following recommendations of the City-planning council did not dare to violate the integrity of the city-planning intention aimed at being an ensemble and tried not to deteriorate its purpose.

Though the height parameters of the project - it has 10-12 floors - are not foreign to the environment the building is an active component of the second echelon of the development and on the whole the city silhouette if viewed from the overpass bridge and the square of Belorussky railway terminal. However this consequence can be considered favorably provoking for the provincial 3-5-floor environment surrounding its southeastern sector and for the square itself that is one of very problematic centers of the historical core of the city in the city-planning sense.