Talk:Printing plant

Article in Russian (Oct.2008): Lissitsky's printshop

As seen from the back - as close as I could get to it. Trees and fences all around.

The building pictured here, located at 55.777277°N 37.610828°E / 55.777277; 37.610828 17, 1st Samotechny Lane, is Lissitsky's sole tangible work of architecture. The building was commissioned in 1932 by Ogonyok magazine as a printshop (hey, my own grandfather, then a student at Mining Academy, moonlighted at Ogonyok as packaging workhand at the same time, although he perhaps graduated before the new printshop was completed). The fact that Lissitsky indeed designed it has been concurred by his son now living in Spain. In June 2007 the independent Russky Avangard foundation filed a request for listing the building on the heritage register. In September 2007 the city commission (Moskomnasledie) approved the request and passed it to the city government for a final approval ... which did not happen. Finally, in October 2008 the abandoned building burnt down (the photo shows the least damaged south end of the building, it's far worse on the sides, no roof, no ceilings; Googlemaps image was apparently taken before the fire). NVO (talk) 08:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

• Source: Ilyicheva, Anna (2008). "Avangard na samoteke (Авангард "на cамотеке")" (in Russian). lenta.ru. NVO (talk) 08:38, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

This should be added to the article, maybe in the section "Horizontal skyscrapers" since it is about his architectural projects. I am going to read the source in a few hours and add a rendition of what NVO wrote with the picture, unless someone else does before then. DVD 23:57, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, I added a short paragraph using what you wrote here and added your photo. Please proof read it. BTW, It really gives me the creeps that the building was burned in the same month that we were working on it during WP:FAR :( DVD 01:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)