Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

Truck garage in Novoryazanskaya Street
Western tip of the horseshoe, 2007 photograph
General information
Architectural style	Avant-garde
Town or city	27 Novoryazanskaya Street, Moscow 55°46′20″N 37°39′57″E
Country	Russia
Construction started	1926
Completed	1929
Client	City of Moscow
Technical details
Structural system	Masonry, steel roof structure
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Konstantin Melnikov
Structural engineer	Vladimir Shukhov

The Horseshoe Garage by Melnikov and Shukhov, 2008

Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal. This garage is still used as such, and houses Moscow's Fourth Bus Park.

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See also

• Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
• Konstantin Melnikov
• Vladimir Shukhov

References

(in English)

• Truck Garage, Novo-Ryazanskaya Street
• Elizabeth Cooper English: «Arkhitektura i mnimosti»: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition", a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

(in German)

• Rainer Graefe und andere, «Vladimir G. Suchov 1853—1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.», 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.

(in Dutch)

• Model of Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage
• Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

(in Russian)

• Мельников К.С.: "Архитектура моей жизни. Творческая концепция. Творческая практика." — М.: Искусство, 311 стр., 1985
• Хан-Магомедов С.О.: "Константин Мельников" — М., изд. "Архитектура-С", cерия: "Мастера архитектуры", 296 стр., 2006, ISBN 5-9647-0095-0
• Шухова Е.М.: «Владимир Григорьевич Шухов. Первый инженер России.», 368 стр., Изд. МГТУ, Москва, 2003, ISBN 5-7038-2295-5.