The meeting began with a minute of silence in honor of the memory of the architect Yevgeny Grigorievich Rozanov.
The first item on the agenda was the discussion of projects for the reconstruction of a part of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and the Mozhaisk highway that continues it between the Third Transport Ring and the Moscow Ring Road. This urban development project has already been discussed and was rejected with the decision to hold a competition, the final result of which will also be determined by the council. Three out of five projects submitted for this competition were discussed today.
In general, the projects are close, but there are also differences. The first (International Architectural Academy MAAM) connects high-rise buildings into nodal compositions around the intersection of highways. The second (MNIIP Mosproekt-4, Vorontsov's architectural bureau) has much in common with the first. It also keeps the Apple Garden and Poklonnaya Gora open, but the skyscrapers are scattered here separately, "like gulivers," and not connected into nodes. In the third project, a denser building was proposed, concentrated mainly on the territory of Poklonnaya Gora.
According to the majority of the speakers, there are flaws in all three projects. The buildings are strongly pressed against the avenue, limiting the possibilities of its further development, the entrance to the city is being built up too much, which, according to the speakers, should only be accentuated. Also, the proposed development around Poklonnaya Gora was recognized as too massive, which, in the proposed form, will reduce the visual scale of the area, reduce its urban planning and, most importantly, ideological significance.
As a result, Yu. M. Luzhkov approved the first project as a concept, proposing to take into account some of the findings of the second, namely, to make the houses “more interesting”: “… we have an unusual competition before us - this is not a building or a group of buildings, but a whole avenue, and one of the most prestigious …”, and keep the city entrance open. According to the mayor, "… we are not chasing after square meters, the first place is given to the architecture of the city!"
At the meeting, 10 projects of hotel buildings were considered.
The large-scale project presented by the workshop of Alexander Asadov involves the construction of an office and hotel complex above the railway between Savelovsky and Belorussky stations with a real out-of-weather ski slope above it. According to the plan, the complex should radically change the urban planning situation in the area, divided by railways into two poorly connected parts - Tver, closer to the center, and Butyr, behind the stations.
In addition, the project includes the expansion of the nearby streets, and the complex itself is supposed to be installed on a new route. After a long debate about the need for a sports complex in the city center outside the green zones, the issues of its aesthetics and profitability, the mayor said that he liked the elaboration of highways, the blocking of railways and the use of the space above them, but “the ski slope, as they say, is not to the village nor to the city, this project is more suitable for the Sochi anniversary, for example. And if we put forward a project only because there is an investor, then we will find application for his billion."
Then the project of the Zaha Hadid hotel was considered, which is supposed to be placed on the axis between the Moscow-City MIBC and the center, as a separate prelude to the City, without being built into the main group of skyscrapers. The hotel will be located in two towers, exhibition halls are planned in the horizontal stylobate. The height of the hotel is approaching the average height of the City, 46 and 52 floors. The project was adopted almost unanimously, with the only amendment - it was proposed to swap the arrangement of the towers from larger to smaller in order to create a smoother transition from the City.
The project of a high-rise building (OOO Arka) in the area of Three stations, on Kalanchevskaya square, in the gap between the tower of the Yaroslavsky railway station and the Moskovskaya hotel, was rejected due to the imbalance between the existing high-rise towers of the station, the hotel and the Stalinist skyscraper. As well as the existence of a 1930s house on this site, which may well serve as a small hotel with 40 rooms.
Also, amendments were made to the previously discussed project of the hotel on Pushkinskaya Square by Pavel Andreev (16/2 Tverskaya) on the site of the House of Moscow News. As the mayor noted, the facades are "primitive and monotonous, it is necessary to adhere to the Tver eclecticism." The project was not accepted due to a disagreement over the ratio of parking spaces - it was decided to revise the standards for hotels.
In the Kitay-gorod area, in block 5, on the site of "dilapidated outbuildings that have no historical value," the council approved the construction of three hotels (GUP "Mosproekt-2"), which "fit in with the historical buildings in their scale and offer the maximum available for public courtyard territories ".
In the Tsaritsyn area of Borisov ponds Yu. M. Luzhkov approvingly accepted Pavel Andreev's landscape hotel (GUP Mosproekt-2, workshop 14), noting that “… only without a flat roof, not a 5-storey one and with a reference point to Tsaritsyno”, which means white and red design.
Another project by Pavel Andreev, which recently received a gold diploma from Zodchestvo, a hotel project at the beginning of Entuziastov highway, at the entrance to the historic center of the city, was approved by the mayor, but specifically asked not to remove the post with the inscription “three miles to Moscow”, but rather to move it to a more conspicuous place so that "you can estimate the distance." They decided not to accept the project anyway, but to additionally talk with the residents of the district.
Regarding the hotel in the Kuskovsky park area, at the intersection of Perovskaya st. and Svobodny Prospekt, as presented by Kiselev and Partners LLC, the mayor's decision was as follows - should not be higher than 43 meters, increase the parking space by expanding the underground garage.
Next to the completed "Airbus" by Vladimir Plotkin, also overlooking the park of the Timiryazev Academy, it is planned to build a multifunctional Greek center "Ellada", which is not inferior in scale to its already famous neighbor (also about 30 floors). The project, presented by the workshop "LVA", was not shown in sufficient detail, many questions arose with its location and the mayor postponed a more thorough discussion to the next meeting.
