About this article
Published Online: Apr 17, 2021
Page range: 33 - 44
Received: Oct 01, 2020
Accepted: Feb 10, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2021-004
Keywords
© 2019 Svitlana Smolenska et al., published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Figure 1.
![Fragment of the map of Kharkiv, 1902, showing the location of “Big Block” downtown quarter [11]](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6470702c83f1392090d6982f/j_acee-2021-004_fig_001.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250906%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250906T054611Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=3d87225c5dc253f9e2867835ac50faf35535c29735e52cbc876588f109dd46c9&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 2.
![Photographs showing the original look of the Old Arcade before reconstruction in 1893 [12]: on the left – a photograph of 1885 depicting Merchants Descent from bridge over river Lopan; on the right – postcard of the late 19th century depicting Merchants Descent from University street (between 1875 and 1893)](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6470702c83f1392090d6982f/j_acee-2021-004_fig_002.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250906%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250906T054611Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=faf41c31c772d7ef2cc91ffe646cdbc1e2d897dc35b348d0f3a872fe3789774e&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 3.
![Photographs showing the Old Arcade after reconstruction in 1893: top left – postcard of the early 20th century depicting Merchants Descent from the bridge over river Lopan [11]; top right – postcard of the early 20th century depicting Merchants Descent from University street [12]; bottom left – postcard of the early 20th century depicting intersection of Merchants Descent and Klochkovskaya street, showing the lower entrance to the Old Arcade with the large window and balcony above it [12]; bottom right – postcard of 1895 depicting interior of the Old Arcade after reconstruction, showing its new skylight [12]](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6470702c83f1392090d6982f/j_acee-2021-004_fig_003.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250906%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250906T054611Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=f02edf519e2909e5b6c1a3a94dc62a9b508f0060dff838bf10088d3434cfe77e&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 4.
![The hypothetical spatial structure of the Old Arcade (own work) with visual references [11, 12, 13]](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6470702c83f1392090d6982f/j_acee-2021-004_fig_004.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250906%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250906T054611Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=6e23d48e0f3dfba43a9bc006edf097fa6204506ddcdc73275c52a9cfededcb5d&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 5.
![Fragment of the map of Kharkiv, 1916 (depiction of Arcade as a street is highlighted) [13]](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6470702c83f1392090d6982f/j_acee-2021-004_fig_005.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250906%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250906T054611Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=e08d06b3a9ea94826dd371aaa3aae71d2bd7876bd9624536fc0813c0a318ee41&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 6.
![Photograph depicting the façade of the Old Arcade facing Merchants Descent during the reconstruction of 1893 [13]](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6470702c83f1392090d6982f/j_acee-2021-004_fig_006.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250906%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250906T054611Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=f513f3229b7c90de3a21f698c1aac5224827e105a63859350731c4cbc33231ab&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 7.

Figure 8.

Figure 9.

Figure 10.
