OREANDA-NEWS  On 05 November was announced, that a four-storey hotel will be erected at the corner of Prechistinskaya Square not far from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

“A plot for the supposed development bulks large in the urban development situation on the corner of Prechistinskaya Embankment of the Moskva River and a vast undeveloped space around the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,” Aleksandr Kuzmin, head architect of Moscow, said at a session of Public Council for Urban Development under Moscow City Mayor on October 29.

The official noted that the 120-room hotel was planned to have four storeys.

“An investor suggested also the fifth one, an attic floor, on the side looking out the embankment,” Mr Kuzmin added.

The head architect of Moscow informed that two designs, classic and neoRussian, had been elaborated for the facades. The three-level underground structure will have a car park for 100 vehicles.

Moscow City Mayor Yuri Luzhkov approved the construction of the hotel but was in favour of revising the architectural design.

Mr Luzhkov also suggested harmonizing the hotel building with the existent monument to Aleksandr II on the opposite side of Vsekhsvyatsky Lane.