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Title	Main Department Store (GUM)
Alternate Title	Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin
View	View where the arcade meets the central glass dome
Work Type	buildings commercial buildings stores department stores complexes shopping centers shopping arcades
Style/Period	Nineteenth century
Creator Name	Pomerantsev, Aleksandr, 1848-1918
Creator Nationality	Russian
Contributors to Project	Shukhov, Vladimir Grigorevich, 1853-1939
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors engineering and industry manufacturing retail shopping mall
Subject.image	Fountains
Country	Russia
City	Moscow
State/Province	Rossiya
Location.Notes	faces Red Square
Architectural Material	glass; cast iron; red Finnish granite; Tarusa marble; limestone; reinforced concrete
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	1890-1893 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Subject Information	The trapezoidal building features an interesting combination of elements of Russian medieval architecture and a steel framework and glass roof, a similar style to the great Victorian train stations of London. Each arcade is on three levels, linked by walkways of reinforced concrete. Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly-curved structural forms. These forms, based on non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, are known today as hyperboloids of revolution. Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but also the mathematics for their analysis. It is still open today, and is a popular tourist destination for those visiting Moscow.
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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