How the famous shopping complex was demolished in Moscow
Photo: Sergey Savostyanov / TASS
On February 21, the demolition of the Pyramid shopping complex at the Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow began. The “pyramid”, which the writer Alexander Kabakov called the “ enlarged summer cottage ,” stood for two decades, but did not survive the large -scale plans of the Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin to eliminate street pavilions . Shortly before the demolition day, the Pyramid changed the owner; The new owner agreed to independently disassemble the shopping center . "Medusa" suggests comparing how the "pyramid" looks like before and during demolition.