Microdistrict "Kuznechikha-3" is planned in the southeastern part of the Sovetsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. This is the outskirts of the city, its upland part, from where to the historical center by car - 15 minutes, if there are no traffic jams. The scale of the project can be assessed by the following indicators: 15 schools and 40 kindergartens. If you take all the children there, then there will definitely not be enough for Global Town!
The area is bounded in the north by Kuznechikha-2, in the east by the Starka River, which is also referred to in parentheses as the Kova in the documents. In the south lies Ankudinovka, in the west - Shchelokovsky farm and the oak grove of the Botanical Garden. Now there are solid fields between the roads. But according to the general plan of Nizhny Novgorod - updated by Moscow - and ours, already decrepit since 1999 - this territory is defined as promising for housing and transport infrastructure.
That is, where there were fields, there will be blocks of high-rise buildings and cottage villages. Private vegetable gardens and public stadium. Old cemetery and new square. By the way, as someone noticed at the City Council, the district square is outlined exactly opposite the cemetery - momento mori! Probably, this is a kind of philosophical subtext, intuitively guessed, but not yet substantiated by the designers. It can be considered that, solely out of absent-mindedness, the chief architect of the NizhegorodgrazhdanNIIproekt institute, Yuri Nikolaevich Kartsev, who presented the project, showed some kind of building bordering the square, closing it from an uncomfortable neighborhood. The educational moment can even be strengthened at the next stage of designing this particular section of the district: to place it in the outermost building of the "bordering" registry office.
True, it won't be soon. And not all at once - in turn. In the meantime, the designers will correct the project taking into account the comments made by colleagues.
So that the layout was more orderly, regular, but corresponded to the picturesque nature of the area with hilly relief. Unlike the name of the river, the recommendations come without parentheses, listing. To make corrections, first the designers will have to decide: will the tram or the metro still go to Kuznechikha-3?
We are ready to build on the second project submitted for discussion even now, despite the general crisis sentiment. The Tashir group of companies intends to create a new brand for Nizhny Novgorod on the Grebnevskie sands island. It is the brand - they themselves said so. Grebnevsky Sands are located opposite the Main Fair House, on the Oka, not far from the place of its confluence with the Volga. There was a beach, a pontoon bridge led to it - the bridge was removed - the beach was overgrown. The architect Safiullin told Nizhny Novgorod residents about the glorious traditions of the Nizhny Novgorod fair, about the number of transactions concluded there, about the main urban planning axes that can be supported on the beach island, and about the "logical completion of the historical complex of the Fair." The island, two kilometers long, is divided into zones: a city park, a hotel complex, a residential complex. The dwelling is not shabby - four towers of forty floors - opposite the circus with a planetarium, facing the embankment. Each apartment has a view of the Strelka and the Dyatlovy Hills. In the park there is a yacht club, something for children, something for adults, active youth and souvenirs in the fast food pavilion. Pedestrian bridge from the embankment. Yes, and two - automobile - the highway is looped back on the island. The hotel complex consists of three buildings with one lobby. Underground (underwater, probably) and aboveground parking …
How to place all this in a relatively small area, where before the ball flew from some beach volleyball players to another circle? Everything is possible. The investor will increase the area from the right channel of the Oka by 300 meters. So much soil, sand, and whatnot is needed to make the island wider. And a little longer. In general, they are going to turn its natural geometry into the correct one. For persuasiveness, it was no longer a young architect who spoke about the bulk and bank protection works, but a bearded specialist with extensive experience. Uncle did not raise an eyebrow, calling the numbers. Forty thousand cubic meters of concrete. Two million cubic meters of sand. Three billion rubles for bridges, a few billion more for the embankment … The island will rise to 72nd mark - Lenin Square is now 74th. Indeed, measures are necessary - in the spring, Grebnevsky Sands is regularly flooded with two-thirds of poplars. To prevent the island from looking like a pedestal, terracing along the edges is provided - with bushes and trees, as if it were. At the same time, the investor claims: the economic balance has been observed. That is, the invested money will return with a profit. Despite the fact that each hectare will cost 300 million.
The members of the town planning council made a number of remarks to the designers. In particular, the project does not take into account the decisions already made and being implemented on the right and left banks - will it be harmonious? Skyscrapers must not be allowed to block the view of Old Kanavino and from Lenin Square - of the upland part. The trees on the island have already "devoured" the space and expanse of the Oka …
And before making the final decision, the chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod organization of the Union of Architects Sergey Popov encouraged the guests: "The investor's opportunities are impressive." With such and such forces, it is easier to roll the Oka into a pipe and build a full-fledged microdistrict in the mainstream.
The third question discussed a completely realistic problem: on the Kazanskaya embankment, houses were almost built, when suddenly the customer had the opportunity to add three more floors to each sixteen-story tower. The hotel next door will be 25 floors, so 19 is not a question. Such a wall-comb on the right when leaving Belinsky Street to Sennaya Square. Above the Pechersky Monastery. The designers felt that the towers would be noticeably built. The colleagues agreed, although only later, when discussing the fourth issue, they reprimanded the architects that the horizon of this complex was closed and it wasn’t happy with its massiveness … But, most importantly, the developers fled from the city council, happily jumping up, because the parking lots and everything else for these additional apartments with types are already provided.
… The town-planning concept in the area of Lyadov Square has been discussed for several years from different sides. There were developments about how wonderful and ambitious Nizhny Novgorod would look if it had high-rise accents and a disheveled silhouette. They came up with a transport scheme, with the withdrawal of the "City Ring" tram, the construction of underground and aboveground highways. We corrected it when “Electronics” wanted to add something attractive and very cumbersome to this terribly overloaded hub with parking lots, it’s not clear where. And now NPO "Arkhstroy" has developed a concept - setting high-rise accents by order of … Homeowners' association "Vorovskogo-12". It is immediately clear that these owners are serious and solid people. At the announcement of the customer, the people in the hall began to rummage around, but the comrades hid … The essence of the concept proposal is to consider the possibility of building 35-storey high-rises around the square:
on the site of the 9-storey dormitory of the Polytechnic Institute (from the Belinsky side), at the end of the square, when it will be extended to Krupskaya Street, on the Vorovskogo tower as part of the quarter, and the tower on the site of a shoe store (yellow five-story building) on Lyadov Square.
Member of the City Council Professor Alexander Khudin called this decision an explosion. He was supported by Anna Gelfond, who considered the setting of these accents to be disorienting and did not help to understand the difficult urban planning situation. Sergey Timofeev enthusiastically commented on the concept, recalling the best European accents, which he, fortunately, had a chance to see not in the pictures. Evgeny Pestov acknowledged the proposal unconvincing, saying that the previous work on Lyadov Square did not cause satisfaction, and this one only added doubts.
Then the former deputy mayor, Mr. Meleshkin, unexpectedly came out and said: "I am from the customer … Actually, I am the customer …". He admitted that the HOA is deeply indifferent to the accents on Lyadov Square, that “the lower, the easier it is,” and in general it was only necessary to see how one could settle down here in his quarter, and therefore turned to the designers. In order to carry the encumbrance on the project.
But the answer has not yet been found. We'll have to look for a new concept. Forget about yesterday.
