Gatchinskaya St., Building 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197136
The four-story income house No. 11, owned by the brothers Vasily, Andrey, and Pavel Andreevich Vasilyev, began construction in 1901 based on the design by civil engineer Vasily Vasilievich Korvin-Krukovsky. The project was revised and the construction completed by architect Vasily Vasilievich Shaub in 1902.
According to Korvin-Krukovsky’s design, the front facade was intended to be styled in late eclecticism with classicist elements. Shaub somewhat reworked the layout of the house and wings, and also radically changed the design of the front facade to Art Nouveau style. Additionally, Shaub incorporated certain Baroque motifs in the decoration of this income house: volutes in the upper tier of the bay window, characteristic outlines of shaped sandriks. The house also features typical Art Nouveau techniques: rounded corners of the pediments, squat single-pitched attics above the cornices, varied windows, and smooth transitions of the bay window masses into the wall plane.
At the same time, the general features of Art Nouveau are evident – these include the rounded corners of the gables with finials, squat attics above the cornices, windows of various shapes and sizes with small panes, and the smooth connection of the bay windows with the wall.
An owl can be seen in the decorative stucco framing the lower part of the bay windows.
