M. Kostava Street

The large-scale building located at 14, M. Kostava St. was built in 1961 by the project of architects Davit Moseshvili and Ilia Tarasashvili as a "printed word combine". During the Soviet period, the editorial offices of the newspapers "Communist" and "Samshoblo" were located here. Today a fashionable hotel "Stamba"  distinguished by an interesting interior design is located here. It is important that the facade of the renovated building after the reconstruction retains its original, historical appearance, the old printing presses preserved here are also preserved. The six-story building occupies the entire quarter and, as is characteristic of the "ambitious" Soviet architecture, creates a clear accent in the existing development and seems to deliberately play a dominant role. The rectangular volume of the building developed along the red line of the street, rhythmically divided by wide openings, is emphatically symmetrical, monotonous, and "unified", which testifies to the desire of the authors to be similar to the artistic-architectural appearance of industrial architecture. This building is one of the interesting examples of Soviet modernist architecture in Tbilisi.