Architect：Bogdanova Bureau

Location：Kyiv, Ukraine; | ;

Project Year：2021

Category：Offices

To our new office in the center of Kyiv Bogdanova Bureau moved in half a year before the war started in Ukraine. After a year of online work on quarantine, the bureau team got together in these walls – fully understanding the importance of life interaction.

After only 6 months the office again became empty. True lonely windows it eyes the city, in which several times a day, it is torn apart by sirens and explosions. The office windows watches a beautiful landscape – the central park of Kyiv and the legendary red section of the university of Shevchenko – one of the only landscapes which remains unchanged for over 100 years. Every day with shaking hearts we read through news articles to make sure that everything remains unchanged.

Some of us remain in the surrounded Kyiv, some of us went to serve the Ukrainian army.

The majority of Bogdanova bureau managed to evacuate outside the country. We are now ready to continue our work and moving forward to do the things that we can do best of all. To withstand, to support those who remained to protect our homeland, to pay taxes and help the economy of our country.

So, that one day our quiet office once again fills with the happiness of meetings on a weekly plan. So, that we meet here again. So, that on the sunset feel with my colleagues the tiredness of the night, fully understanding the price of life and the peaceful sky above.

So, that the windows still have the same landscape as 100 years ago.

In the heart of Kyiv on the street of Tereshchenkivska, also called the street of museums, is located a 6-story house with the number 13. It was built in 1913-1914 and served as a gallery and a rental for a famous Ukrainian collector and founder Bogdan Hanenko.

The architecture of the house units is modern and neo-classic. The main

Front part of the house has a stern, almost square, silhouette of a gray color, with a small mansard on the center of the roof. The inside part of the house is colored in green… because of this the house is called “the well”.