Trade and residential complex in the form of streets, consisting of two parallel five-storey buildings with gates, which form a passage between Khreschatik and st. Zankovetska. Example "fasadnicheskoy architecture." End of XIX - early XX century. Rapid construction of sturdy 6-8-storey buildings, so-called tenement houses. Land rent on the main streets has grown almost exponentially. Tightness sections leads to the fact that the houses on the streets, corridors, standing shoulder to shoulder and left at the disposal of the architect alone front wall. Facade of the Arcade - a work of art: in addition to male and female heads, young and old, here countless coats of arms, garlands, supported by flying genii, angels, eagles, flames, bas-reliefs of children, naked men and women, and Neptune with a trident in his hands, embracing pair. The first floors of buildings were occupied by a solid number of shops on the upper floors, divided into sections, arranged an apartment and office businesses. The entrance to the Arcade in the form of lush arches had to issue only from the Zankovetska, construction Khreschatytska part prevented the First World War. After World War Passage rebuilt and reconstructed. In the 1950 finish the Khreshchatytska side, restored facades, to the ends of the old building built a 6-storey building with a huge arch. On the lower floors in the 1980's was the central Children's World, on the upper floors - the apartment. At various times, there lived various prominent figures of what is now notify the plaques (singer BR Gmyrya, AL Mihneva doctor, poet Ivan Nekhoda). When the symmetry of its facades Arcade asymmetric in its construction - it has a kink, which creates some very needed in the art of irregularity.