Mirror disease

Officials built an amazing fence around them, which became almost the only attraction

Around the Khimki administration, a mirror fence appeared. As the officials explained, “such an architectural solution was chosen to reflect the square outside. It is important to note that this is not a mirror, but a polished metal. ”

The news about this "architectural solution" went far beyond the limits of city publics of Khimki. And it cannot be said that the fence impressed the audience exclusively in a positive sense. Most of it is surprised and at a loss.

The administration building itself usually looks: a three -story yellow building with high white columns at the entrance is Soviet classicism. Large plastic windows, office blinds, officials run out to smoke. The fountain works.

And - a mirror fence that looks somewhat ridiculous.

A girl with a dog looks in surprise at her reflection in the fence. The image is clear and clear - at least the faces of crooked, the metal has not yet had time to cover the dust.

While I was going here, I thought about options with risen noses-well, if someone thinks and does not see the “architectural solution”. But the design still did not dissolve in the air and does not represent an “invisible wall”. So you won’t hurt - if only at night on a scooter ...

Noticing that I am photographing a landmark, a man in a strict business suit, who, apparently, was hastily retreated in the direction of an inconspicuous, almost disguised under the wall and the same mirror door. Even the exits from the territory of the administration are now barely distinguishable.

“Yes, they just fenced the parking lot,” a man of about forty in an office jacket and shirt tells me. - I am just an administration employee myself.

- Why? I ask.

- I don’t know, apparently, the leadership decided to do so.

- Why exactly mirrors?

-Probably, to add some aesthetics. To look more impressive. More volume somehow.

Well, yes, something like that, probably ...

Visitors to the square are shared by impressions.

- She came here to make sure. If not for telegrams, I would not have recognized, ”the pensioner reports in a blue dress with gray curls. -This is some kind of shame. What are they doing? We sat all winter without warmth, where they spend money ...

“Here the administration says that for aesthetics,” I appeal to the said “just an employee”.

- Well, for aesthetics! .. It used to be a conventional fence, there was aesthetics. It would be better if they did something for children, not this fence, ”the lady continues. -It would be better if the money was spent on something useful!

A full woman of about fifty with a boy of about ten:

- Yes, I live in new Khimki, today I only saw in the chat, they are discussing everything there.

- And the inhabitants are against?

- And everything is against, of course. And I work as a nanny, but we left the library - and I saw. And in the chat, everyone also says that there is nowhere to put the money - it would be better to renovate the roads. But what are we? Are we the owners here, or what?

Two girls take a picture of their image in the fence (where else will you find such fences?), And this clearly delivers a sea of ​​positive emotions. I really thought that I would not find supporters of the mirror structure ...

- We are normal! We like it. Previously, there was also a fence - closed, and now you can take a picture here.

- As a new attraction! - The second is connected. “On the contrary, it seems to us that it is a youth solution of“ admin ”.

... The building of the Khimki administration has a very rich political story. In 2010, it was thrown by smoke bombs and firecrackers by the defenders of the Khimki forest - activists opposed the construction of a paid route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. No one was injured, but many were imprisoned.

In the same year, eco -activists protested against the solid waste training ground in the left -bank district of the city. The landfill was nothing. And the main city journalist Beketov was judged for his civil position and brutally beaten, he died in the hospital under strange circumstances.

... Aesthetic improvements continue in the Square itself : half of the pedestrian paths are either disassembled, or only laid. Everywhere sand and the remains of a concrete mixture. The height of the day, but none of the workers are observed.

Two grandmothers on a bench not far from heaps of construction debris, a fair-haired dress in a light gray dress and a brunette in purple and sun glasses, they are almost a choir.

- We are surprised! We are very surprised!

- We are indignant even, I would say ...

- In such a difficult time, put this fence ... Why? They see us, but we are not.

- But nothing supernatural happens there. Well, these cars are there, so what?

“Yes, they have money, they put them themselves, they want to,” they switch to a whisper.

“Well, it probably cost a lot of money,” a woman connects under fifty with a black short haircut. -Nothing is visible now because of him. They probably achieved this. Hiding from the eyes.

I catch up with a girl dressed in a beige office jacket and a long gray skirt. The person is serious - obviously, an employee of the administration (well, a non -administrative person cannot look like this).

- I can’t say anything special, the administration made such a decision. The territory is not visible, but the house is visible! - briefly answers me.

And the truth. The building itself is clearly visible. And there is no fence from the side of the main entrance at all - you can just take and enter.

A fence in Russia is always a special design, perhaps more architectural styles conveying the atmosphere of the era: elaborate fences of the 19th century, Soviet concrete freaks with a thorn on top, three -meter - among the mansions of especially important summer residents. What is there, it is enough to trace the evolution of the fence near the presidential administration building on the Old Square: from the complete absence to the rods of impressive forging, to which the barriers were added, some concrete durabs and almost anti-tank hedgehogs ... and now I know when the time of the beautiful Russia of the future will come (thanks to the Khimki administration)-this is how the fences will become mirror, but deployed Amalgama inside ...