The House with Chimeras
once lived in Kiev, at the turn of 19-20 centuries, a very successful businessman of Polish origin, and at least a successful and well-known at the time the architect Vladislav Gorodetsky. His love of architecture and was the cause of now-famous building, the so-called "House of Chimeras."
This building has long been a hallmark of modern Kiev. Gorodetsky built it as his own apartment house, also plan to live in it with his family.And so to the style of the house, he had a special relationship
Gorodetsky chosen for construction is not the most convenient area - a steep cliff, and this was a source of inspiration for the architect.The building has grown, like the castle on the hill, and the modernist view of things allowed to use his appearance bizarre intertwining of shapes and lines, characteristic of the wild. Of nature, as well as stories and legends, and decorations that make a house and got its name.
A big fan of hunting, Gorodetsky decorated the facade of his mansion images inspired by hunting motifs, seated on the walls of the building all kinds of exotic animals, and fantasy creatures.
In Soviet times, the "House with Chimeras" was a difficult fate, first communal, after - the location of certain institutions, hospital, badly damaged during World War II ... In the late 1990s, the house was almost falling apart - piles that supported it will not handle the load, and the house collapsed and broke in two.
Today, after the reconstruction, the "House of Chimeras," the residence of the President of Ukraine. Was restored not only the house, but is located in the courtyard before the artificial lake and the garden.
