We have been visiting our friends at the Zhurgaz house, to see how is going theirstruggle to preserve their home and the close El Lissitzky’s typography. The planned new high rise building has been built up, although in recent times the construction has been stopped. The destitution of mayor Luzkhov left in disgrace his wife Elena Baturina, former queen of Russian real estate. But it seems that the building has been sold from Inteko to another company which managed to advance in the consruction. Recently, welcoming the appeal of the neighbours, the prefect had stopped the construction, but in total contraddiction a protocol signed by the first deputy mayor in the Moscow city government autorises the demolition of a part of the building to faciltate access to the garage of the new building.
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