despite an enthusiastic start which saw most of the buildings such as the post office, city council, the elegant white portico conservatory, and the first buildings of the kalinina square, which were completed by 1955, the new politics of architecture once again promptly stopped the project from fully being realised. none of the examples, however, share the fate of hotel ukrayina that was to top the square as an elegant high-rise built similar to the moscow's seven sisters buildings, was stripped of all decorative features and completed in what could only be described as an "ugly" style.