Former Central Pharmacy warehouse - Chisinau

Four brick-red corner towers rise the full height of this storage facility on Arheolog Ion Casian-Suruceanu Street, their vertical mass compressing a recessed grey central volume between them. Vadim Klevensky completed the building in 1985 to supply pharmaceuticals to the hospitals and diagnosis centres on Nicolae Testimiteanu Street, including the Municipal V. Ignatenco Clinical Hospital for Children. The placement on the city's outskirts, away from heavy traffic, was functionally deliberate: stable internal temperatures required controlled ventilation and minimal glazing, which the narrow window strips running the height of the grey volume and the corner towers provide. White limestone marks the entrance portal and accents the outer window strips of the corner elements, the only chromatic interruption in an otherwise binary material palette of brick-red and grey. The building reads at first as a straightforward rectangular block, but the four corner towers create the impression of interlaced volumes rather than a single mass, giving a storage facility the visual density of something more fortified and purposeful. It is one of the more formally resolved utilitarian structures of the period in Chișinău.