Experts: There is no need to completely dismantle the Shukov Tower.
The Shukov Tower in Shabulovka can be comprehensively restored, while retaining about 70% of the original metal - and for that it does not even need to be completely dismantled. Experts gathered on November 10 at the Central House of Architects talked about it. They suggested changing the restoration project so that as much of the real Shukov as possible would remain from the famous tower.
The problem is that the project approved in the spring provides for an almost complete replacement of historic buildings. They want to dismantle the tower down to the ground, reassemble the five lower parts from new metal, and partially leave the original parts only in the upper part. As Moskovich previously wrote, architects fear that instead of the 1922 monument, Moscow would prefer to have a copy of it in the format of "a very expensive European quality renovation".
But such a radical approach, it seems, is not necessary at all.