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Продолжим знакомство с малоизвестными ныне творцами, работы которых демонстрировали новые высоты инженерной мысли, способствуя головокружительному взлету модернистской архитектуры в дальнейшем. На сей раз перенесемся в нью-йоркский Сохо, где в 1857 г. Джон Гейнор построил роскошное здание универмага для предпринимателя Эдера Ховаута, которое, по словам одной местной градозащитницы, является «самой знаменитой постройкой с металлическим каркасом из числа сохранившихся в Нью-Йорке до наших дней». Гейнор спроектировал это здание на основе венецианской Библиотеки Марчиана, увеличив, правда, число этажей с двух до пяти. Ховаут был производителем и поставщиком изделий из фарфора, стекла и серебра и реализовывал эту продукцию в том числе в своем универмаге, в котором можно было заметить очень высоких гостей, даже, как утверждается, российского императора.

Ховаут хотел сделать свой универмаг максимально привлекательным для посетителей, чтобы они приходили поглядеть на него как на чудо и заодно приобретали товар. По пятничной традиции предлагаем вам рассмотреть приложенные фотографии и отгадать, благодаря какой передовой особенности это здание навсегда закрепилось в истории архитектуры? Только, чур, не гуглить и не торопиться с ответом, если он вам заведомо известен - пусть другие тоже подумают.

P.S. А мы в честь четырехлетия сообщества премируем первого правильно ответившего памятным призом!

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Here’s another instalment of what is now turning into a series of posts on precursors of modernist architecture, lesser-known buildings and their creators whose engineering genius reached dizzying heights, thus paving the way to contemporary architecture as we know it. Built in New York’s SoHo by John Gaynor, this 1857 department store was commissioned by Eder Haughwout and, according to one local preservationist, is "the most celebrated of the cast-iron buildings still standing in New York City." Likely inspired by Jacopo Sansovino’s Marciana Library in Venice, this five-story building was an organic addition to the neighborhood in terms of the style and height. Haughwout was a manufacturer and supplier of fine porcelain, glass, silverware and wanted his store, called the Haughwout Emporium, to look just as respectable, hence its high-profile clientele that at some point allegedly included the Czar of Russia.

He also wished for his store to be referred to as one and only so that people would come to gaze at its bells and whistles and do some shopping at the same time. Since it’s Friday today and time for our usual quiz, we’re inviting you to guess what was so unique and innovative about this building that etched its name into the history of architecture and contributed to the rise of modernist architecture in subsequent decades? As usual, please refrain from googling and posting the correct answer if you happen to know it already - let others think a bit first.

P.S. Since this community is celebrating its fourth anniversary this week, the first one to answer correctly will be awarded with a memorable prize!

(photos: Cervin Robinson via loc.gov, sohobroadway.org, Tim Benton / RIBA Collections, josephpelllombardi.com)
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Продолжим знакомство с малоизвестными ныне творцами, работы которых демонстрировали новые высоты инженерной мысли, способствуя головокружительному взлету модернистской архитектуры в дальнейшем. На сей раз перенесемся в нью-йоркский Сохо, где в 1857 г. Джон Гейнор построил роскошное здание универмага для предпринимателя Эдера Ховаута, которое, по словам одной местной градозащитницы, является «самой знаменитой постройкой с металлическим каркасом из числа сохранившихся в Нью-Йорке до наших дней». Гейнор спроектировал это здание на основе венецианской Библиотеки Марчиана, увеличив, правда, число этажей с двух до пяти. Ховаут был производителем и поставщиком изделий из фарфора, стекла и серебра и реализовывал эту продукцию в том числе в своем универмаге, в котором можно было заметить очень высоких гостей, даже, как утверждается, российского императора.

Ховаут хотел сделать свой универмаг максимально привлекательным для посетителей, чтобы они приходили поглядеть на него как на чудо и заодно приобретали товар. По пятничной традиции предлагаем вам рассмотреть приложенные фотографии и отгадать, благодаря какой передовой особенности это здание навсегда закрепилось в истории архитектуры? Только, чур, не гуглить и не торопиться с ответом, если он вам заведомо известен - пусть другие тоже подумают.

P.S. А мы в честь четырехлетия сообщества премируем первого правильно ответившего памятным призом!

———

Here’s another instalment of what is now turning into a series of posts on precursors of modernist architecture, lesser-known buildings and their creators whose engineering genius reached dizzying heights, thus paving the way to contemporary architecture as we know it. Built in New York’s SoHo by John Gaynor, this 1857 department store was commissioned by Eder Haughwout and, according to one local preservationist, is "the most celebrated of the cast-iron buildings still standing in New York City." Likely inspired by Jacopo Sansovino’s Marciana Library in Venice, this five-story building was an organic addition to the neighborhood in terms of the style and height. Haughwout was a manufacturer and supplier of fine porcelain, glass, silverware and wanted his store, called the Haughwout Emporium, to look just as respectable, hence its high-profile clientele that at some point allegedly included the Czar of Russia.

He also wished for his store to be referred to as one and only so that people would come to gaze at its bells and whistles and do some shopping at the same time. Since it’s Friday today and time for our usual quiz, we’re inviting you to guess what was so unique and innovative about this building that etched its name into the history of architecture and contributed to the rise of modernist architecture in subsequent decades? As usual, please refrain from googling and posting the correct answer if you happen to know it already - let others think a bit first.

P.S. Since this community is celebrating its fourth anniversary this week, the first one to answer correctly will be awarded with a memorable prize!

(photos: Cervin Robinson via loc.gov, sohobroadway.org, Tim Benton / RIBA Collections, josephpelllombardi.com)

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