Shota Rustaveli Ave

28, Rustaveli Ave./2, Al. Chavchavadze. The building located on Shota Rustaveli (formerly Golovin) Ave. is a building with high artistic and architectural characteristics. From the point of view of cultural heritage, its value is determined by its artistic, historical, and urban planning significance. Due to its exceptionally large size and dimensions, the building easily attracts attention. Along with the artistic and architectural significance of the building, in fact, the editorial office of the magazine "Iveria" founded by Ilia Chavchavadze was located here in the 1880s. The original volume of the building, built with old Georgian bricks, having the shape of the Latin grapheme "U" in plan, must have been built in the second half of the 19th century. Initially, it was three-storied. At the beginning of the 20th century, at the end of the 1910s, Al. In the depth of Chavchavadze Street, a wing in the shape of a Latin "U" was added to it, this time already built with Russian bricks. Its height exceeded the old volume by one floor. Finally, the wings connected to each other formed a single building with a cubic volume, the parts of which are organized around a rectangular, enclosed inner courtyard. A little later, in the early 1930s, a fourth floor and an attic were added to the building, due to which the house was significantly transformed, eventually becoming five stories and forming into its present form. With an artistic solution, the additional floor echoes the facade composition of the building, thereby "trying" to connect with it organically, although the attic rising above the sharply pointed cornice does not hide its secondary origin either. It should be noted that both the main and al. The facade on the side of Chavchavadze Street bears the signs of pseudo-Renaissance-Neoclassical style and eclecticism.