What is the "Children's World", after six years of renovation

• What is the "Children's World", after six years of renovation

"Detsky Mir" on Lubyanka Square, built in 1953-1957 years about the project master Stalin Deco Alexei Dushkin, it became a symbol of post-war reconstruction of the country. For facades with light from huge windows, stained-glass windows hiding the first Soviet children's department store, one of the largest in Europe. The center of the new building was the two-story atrium, which is immediately after the discovery of acquired iconic and almost sacred status. Department remained the main children's magazine of the country to the collapse of the USSR, and in the 1990s, gradually fell into decay: the building were completely baby jars and even motor show. In the middle of the zero "Children's World" was recognized as a regional cultural heritage, the state of the building was pre-crash.

In summer 2008, the "Children's World" was closed for renovation, but experts and came up with the project gradozaschitniki criticism. In 2012, after changing several renovation concepts, the chief architect of the department store was the author of the reconstruction of the GUM and the "Manege" Pavel Andreev. In a short time - just 30 months - the building has been completely renovated. According to Sergey Kalinin, the head of the company-developer of "Gals-Development", renovated the "Children's World" opened no later than April 1, 2015. By this time, most of the tenants must complete the decoration. Department will also get a new name - "Central children's store in the Lubyanka."

The reconstruction has been saved the volume of the atrium, but its height It was raised to seven floors. Inside it was restored historical features - eight bronze floor lamps and marble balustrade. On the dome there was a stained glass tape with pictures of the famous Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin fairy tales, and under the dome - the world's largest watch movement (at least insist on it representatives of the developer and the authors hours - St. Petersburg plant "Rocket").

The volume of retail space in the reconstruction of the building increased by half, and now visitors will have access to all seven floors of the "Children's World." There will be the Museum of Childhood, the city trades "KidBurg", a children's cinema "Formula Kino", Hamley's toy store and more than two hundred shops and cafes. The fifth part of the space will be allocated for scientific and educational purposes, there will be an interactive zone with tutorials on each floor. In the updated "Children's World" is a direct entrance to the metro station "Lubyanka".