New Tretyakov Gallery
Yakov Belopolsky + Nikolai Sukoyan · Moscow, Russia · 1986
The New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val is a large late-Soviet museum complex designed as a low horizontal volume rather than a conventional monumental palace. Repetitive structural bays, deep façades and expansive interior galleries were conceived for large collections of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet art. The building forms part of a broader cultural precinct beside Gorky Park and the Moskva River. Construction began in the 1960s and the gallery officially opened in 1986, making it an important example of Soviet museum modernism and a continuing focus of debate over preservation and renovation.