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The Derzhprom building
is
a
constructivist
structure
located
in
Freedom
Square,
Kharkiv,
Ukraine.
Its
name
is
an
abbreviation
of
two
words
that,
taken
together,
mean
State
Industry.
In
English
the
structure
is
known
as
the
State
Industry
Building
or
the
Palace
of
Industry.
It
was
built
during
Soviet
era
in
1928.
Derzhprom
takes
its
unique
place
as
a
unique
phenomenon
of
the
world
architecture
among
the
objects
that
represent
the
modernism
architecture
of
the
first
half
of
the
20th
century,
which
are
already
on
the
UNESCO
World
Heritage
List
or
the
Tentative
List.
The
building
was
one
of
a
few
showcase
projects
designed
when
Kharkiv
was
the
capital
of
the
Ukrainian
SSR.
It
was
built
by
architects
Sergei
Serafimov,
S.Kravets
and
M.Felger
in
only
three
years.
The
building
became
the
most
spacious
single
structure
in
the
world
by
the
year
of
its
completion
in
1928
to
be
surpassed
by
New
York's
skyscrapers
in
1930s.
Its
unique
feature
lies
in
the
symmetry
which
can
only
be
felt
at
one
point,
in
the
centre
of
the
square.
The
use
of
concrete
in
its
construction
and
the
system
of
overhead
walkways
and
individual
interlinked
towers
made
it
extremely
innovative.[3]
It
was
rated
by
Reyner
Banham
as
one
of
the
major
architectural
achievements
of
the
1920s
in
his
Theory
and
Design
in
the
First
Machine
Age
and
comparable
in
scale
only
to
the
Dessau
Bauhaus
and
the
Van
Nelle
factory
in
Rotterdam.[4]
This
allowed
the
structure
to
fully
survive
any
destruction
attempts
during
the
Second
World
War.
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