diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ec3249c582..4ba7a0df4d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,18 +20,19 @@ add_subdirectory(./thirdparty/openvino_tokenizers/ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/
 set_target_properties(openvino_tokenizers PROPERTIES
     VERSION ${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION}
     SOVERSION ${MAJOR_SUFFIX}${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH}
-    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
-    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
+    # Generator expressions to disable appending a per-configuration subdirectory (Release, Debug).
+    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
+    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
 )
 if(TARGET core_tokenizers)
     set_target_properties(openvino_tokenizers PROPERTIES
         VERSION ${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION}
         SOVERSION ${MAJOR_SUFFIX}${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH}
-        LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
-        RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
+        LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
+        RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
     )
 else()
-    # Copy prebuilt dependencies
+    # Prebuilt dependencies
     if(WIN32)
         set(extra_libs "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_deps/fast_tokenizer-src/lib/core_tokenizers.dll"
                        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_deps/fast_tokenizer-src/third_party/lib/icudt70.dll"
@@ -41,8 +42,7 @@ else()
     elseif(APPLE)
         set(extra_libs "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_deps/fast_tokenizer-srclib/libcore_tokenizers.dylib")
     endif()
-    add_custom_command(
-        OUTPUT "${extra_libs}"
+    add_custom_command(OUTPUT "${extra_libs}"
         COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy "${extra_libs}" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
         DEPENDS openvino_tokenizers)
 endif()
diff --git a/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index 352420abf4..bb47414476 100644
--- a/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ string(REGEX MATCH [=[[0-9][0-9]$]=] MAJOR_SUFFIX ${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR}
 set_target_properties(${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES
     VERSION ${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION}
     SOVERSION ${MAJOR_SUFFIX}${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH}
-    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
-    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
+    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
+    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
 )
 
 find_package(Python3 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Interpreter Development)
diff --git a/src/python/CMakeLists.txt b/src/python/CMakeLists.txt
index d3b7251ede..9485830bfa 100644
--- a/src/python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ endif()
 pybind11_add_module(py_generate_pipeline py_generate_pipeline.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(py_generate_pipeline PRIVATE openvino::genai)
 set_target_properties(py_generate_pipeline PROPERTIES
-    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/"
+    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "$<1:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/>"
 )
 file(COPY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/openvino_genai/__init__.py" DESTINATION "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/")
 write_file("${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/openvino_genai/__version__.py" "__version__ = \"${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION}\"")