Centre of Prophylactic Medicine (f. Construction Workers’ Health Centre)
The building has a dynamic front elevation with characteristic tectonic ‘blades’ — pilasters. They provide a sculptural, expressive effect that is strengthened by chiaroscuro. It creates a frontage that is recessed from the street and which has a corner linked to the pre-war Modernist housing. The building is set apart from its foreground by a kind of a moat with an original composition of stairs and planters with evergreen vegetation. The internal staircase is marked by its structure and individual solution, as is the flight staircase which ‘grows out’ of the rear elevation (to which horizontal bris-soleils are attached). It is an example of a consequent solution in the spirit of Late Modern architecture, coherent in its visual and chromatic expression. In spite of the recent thermal insulation it remains in keeping with the original design.