Botanica District Council (former Executive Committee of the Soviet district)

Every Party Raion Committee building in Chișinău's districts was built to an identical design by B. Shpak. The Botanica district was the exception. Leonid Voronin and Nadezhda Maltseva designed a building on Teilor Street in 1987 based on the principle of an inverted pyramid: the volume narrows toward the base, with thin pillars elevating the structure above a fully glazed ground floor. The widest part of the building overhangs at the top, its mass amplified by two thick concrete staircase volumes that grip the flanks and read from the street as a vice clasping the central body. Horizontal aluminium-framed window strips reinforce the stepped profile across each floor level. The same inverted and stepped volumetric approach appears in Voronin's Apa-Canal Chișinău building, where it served as the starting point for exploring the sculptural potential of reinforced concrete in an administrative context. The building is divided into three independent sections: the main volume houses the conference hall, a smaller volume serves a secondary function, and a third handles auxiliary uses. The three sections form a semi-open inner yard connected to the lobby, with landscaped leisure areas around the perimeter. Its location on the outskirts of the city, away from the pressures of central Chișinău, has kept it largely out of sight and largely intact.