Engineering and Laboratory Building of ENIMS
The engineering and laboratory building of the Scientific Research Experimental Institute of Metal-Cutting Machine Tools (ENIMS) in Moscow was presumably begun in 1986 as part of the institute’s expansion and modernization program.
Construction dragged on and was completed only by 1993, likely with significant deviations from the original design. The left and right wings of the building differ noticeably in structure, and the absence of the top floor on the right side suggests that the final stage of construction used existing frameworks and materials rather than following the initial blueprints.
After 1993, the building was privatized. Instead of resuming research activity, it was soon leased out and gradually transformed into the “Clever” business center.
Today, the building’s interior—except for the sanitary and elevator-staircase cores—is a completely new structure, preserving only the exterior shape and basic layout of the original design.
Very little information about this complex can be found in open sources, yet architecturally it remains an interesting example of late-Soviet functionalism and engineering brutalism.
In the game, the building appears as a mechanical parts factory.
Workforce: 300
Maximum daily output: 111 t of mechanical parts
Resource consumption at full capacity: 123 t of steel
Open storage: 350 t of steel
Export storage: 200 t of mechanical parts
