Style: Northern Modern
Year of construction: 1906 - 1907
Architect: Pretro Ippolit Alexandrovich

The Putilova House is a residential apartment building. It was built by order of the merchant's widow T. N. Putilova.

The side facades of the house face the parallel Strelninskaya and Oranienbaum streets.
In this building, the influence of Finnish national romanticism was most clearly manifested:

       a sharp silhouette, 

       bay windows of various shapes and sizes, 

       decorative rough plaster combined with granite cladding, 

       pointed portals, images of owls characteristic of the "northern" Art Nouveau.
At the southwest corner there was a currently lost dome.

The plinth is often lined with Finnish granite, mostly roughly processed, and in places smoothly hewn, and decorated with sculpture. The planes of the walls of the upper floors are covered with textured plaster or finishing bricks. Ornaments inspired by northern folklore, images of northern flora and fauna are introduced into the decoration elements. Majolica, colored ceramic tiles are often used. The shapes of the buildings are massive, free from petty decoration. Contrasting combinations of textures, color-tonal planes, shapes, a variety of window openings and their combinations with piers - all this turns facades in the full sense of the word into a revived northern poem.

If the appearance of the building is fabulously romantic, then the layout is quite traditional. The site is built up quite densely, and square-shaped buildings surround a cramped courtyard. The upper floors are given over to housing, the lower one is cut through with large storefronts – as in most St. Petersburg apartment buildings.

After analyzing the urban development situation around the apartment building of T.N. Putilova, it became clear that the best option for redevelopment is a hotel.

The situational plan shows that there are several objects of the same purpose nearby, however, based on the location of the house (the city center, the proximity of the metro and other public transport, a tourist city), it became clear that hotels are in demand.

After the restoration, only internal changes (redevelopment) took place, since the facades are an architectural monument and cannot be transformed.

Description of the structural solutions of an apartment building:
      Structural system: longitudinal-wall (mixed)
      Foundation: ribbon rubble
      Walls: brick (load-bearing)
      Roof: insulated wooden with laminated wooden rafters 

      Basement floor coverings: brick vaulted
      Interstory floors: wooden beams

The internal zoning has evolved from the function of the building - the apartment building has been converted into a hotel, so all auxiliary, commercial, household and administrative premises work for the best functioning of the hotel.

However, commercial and public spaces located on the ground floor, which can be used not only by hotel guests.

Each floor has 4 elevators and 4 shared staircases, as well as 2 fire escapes for convenient fire evacuation of guests and staff.

The rooms and the administrative and household part of the hotel are located from the 2nd to the 6th floor and are reserved exclusively for guests and hotel staff.

Each room is equipped with a sanitary unit with a shower for the convenience of guests. For the convenience of the staff, there is a separate entrance with a changing room, a shower room, a storage room for used equipment, and a toilet.

Stairs were replaced with elevators, new openings were punched or expanded, and old openings were laid.

Work was carried out to strengthen the ceilings, openings, and foundations for a longer service life of the building.