What has always surprised me in this festival is the abundance of nominations and such a number of awards and prizes, from which incredible confusion arises in my head. And some kind of feeling from the competition, like from many other architectural awards, resembles deja-vu: completely familiar faces compete, and everything seems to be a friendly get-together, where, of course, you don't want to offend someone, and God forbid someone forget. You look at the exhibition, and it is immediately clear who will be among the winners - most likely the favorites of the festival, as a rule, there are no new ones in the top three. The works of the "masters", to be sure, are better in terms of quality, they are non-trivial and certainly do not copy - and such cases were noticed at the exhibition.
Unlike last year's ceremony, which was crowded and festive under the roof of the House of Artists, this one was everyday, the festival returned to its native territory and became ordinary. And even some critically modest - the chairman of the jury assured those present that this time it tried to avoid luxurious projects.
The first place for the project-idea of a country house was given to a cottage in the village "Evergreen" (Anton Mosin, Vera Kazachenkova, Stanislav Kirichenko). The house, frankly speaking, is not at all local, well, there is nothing Russian in it, as if it was taken and delivered from somewhere in the English province. There is a certain northerness in it, it is squat, lined with fashionable dark brick, with green roofs and a sod ramp to the terrace of the second floor.
Pastushenko and Samogorova JSB for the Dutch house - a Dutch house in Samara, got the first place in the “completed residential building” nomination. It is very attractive, like two typical Dutch houses with recognizable stepped roofs and dark brick facades with white windows, glued together by a glass atrium. Inside, of course, he is not so conservative. This is what the Dutch themselves do - they pack coldish high-tech interiors into cozy "old" walls. The pool room deserves special attention, where a combination of rough brickwork, blue water and an almost imperceptible metal frame of a stained-glass window, through which the surrounding landscape appears, is subtly found.
The jury recognized the reconstruction of the network management center of JSC “MOESK” as the best public interior (“T. Bashkaev's architectural bureau” together with “Arch group”). The most spectacular part of the project is the control room with a video projection wall, somewhat similar to a space flight control center. This is an absolutely free room, in the center of which there is a control panel in front of a huge concave screen, where the schemes on which merge into a kind of a map of the starry sky.
The second place for the project-idea of a country house was shared between PlanAR JSB for the Shishkin Les project and Alexey Ginzburg for The House above the Ravine. The latter, by the way, is very remarkable and witty. Its composition beautifully plays on a complex, steep relief. The project is Corbusian in its pure whiteness, cubicity and deliberate manifestation of each cube. But where the house descends like a console down a steep slope, it turns out to be quite unexpected - a large stained glass window under the console even looks like a stained glass window in Melnikov's house in Krivoarbatsky lane.
The second place in the "public interior" nomination was awarded to the PIRogovo golf club. Frankly speaking, there was no doubt that Totan Kuzembaev would receive any award. Like everything that he has been building in recent years on the Klyazma, the golf club is a small masterpiece, unassuming on the outside and surprisingly playing with the space inside. It deforms following the wood-lined wall, which suddenly becomes soft and begins to bend, as if under a column of water ready to break into the room. Transformations continue at night, when the object dissolves altogether in the air, only its roof with detached attics remains black with an expressive silhouette. About what an intricate game of sensations Totan Kuzembaev came up with, tells a small essay that accompanies the tablet.
The second place in this nomination was shared with Kuzembaev by young architects from the za bor bureau for the project of an office in Moscow. They also took third place for the realized "Residential building with an orange sky". Their projects have become, perhaps, one of the highlights of the exhibition. First, according to the originality of the presentation: in front of us is a house, swept by snow under a technogenic orange sky, which plays on the windows like a glow of an evening metropolis. Secondly, the avaricious composition, with sharply identified volumes, offers a new interpretation of the modernist house. An uncharacteristic arrangement of windows and a combination of materials appear in it - the plastered white volume of the "deckhouse" and the wooden body of the long-long deck of the "ship" plowing through the snowy expanses. True, the interiors lose to the neighboring project of the same authors, where interesting spatial traps are encountered in the form of a corridor, in which a broken opening is reflected in the mirror at the end, multiplying and going into infinity.
The cottage, designed by the A-Len bureau and won the third place in the nomination "project-idea of a country house", is good aesthetically, it resembles the weightless glass galleries of Mies van der Rohe. But functionally, these galleries are not very convenient in our harsh climate, and absolutely flat roofs, too.
Among the works submitted for the competition, there were some rather strange ones, especially in terms of submission. For some, conceptualism simply went off scale, making it difficult to figure out what's what. For example, the ARCH.625 bureau's country house project, which received the 3rd place for the “project-idea”. Perhaps this is a stylish technique to place pictures on the background of the face, but everything together looks more like a poster than a tablet with a project. Meanwhile, the project itself, what can I say, is by no means new, several years ago Dmitry Geychenko built his own house, similar in shape. Incidentally, Suprematist "constructors" of cut into each other forms borrowed from the Russian avant-garde are often found in Zaha Hadid.
The honorary award - the diploma of the High Design club was received by Roman Leonidov, who surprised the jury with his studies. It is customary to see this author in the mainstream of modernism, probably due to his genius namesake, and these were the two top works in his four-part composition. These are "manor" and "residence" - beautiful, rounded, easy-to-read plans, buildings half-hidden underground and resurrect the spirit of rationalism of the 1920s. The "Manor" is a giant rounded ramp with semi-ground premises and a "cabin" of an interestingly shaped house cut into a plate in a modernist way. "Country residence", more whimsical in composition, resembles the boarding school in Kozhukhovo bureau "Atrium", however, with the addition of the obligatory airship - Leonidov keeps the brand. But the other two "exercises" unexpectedly turned out to be "Rublev" mansions, very average in taste due to the complete mixture of everything, even elements of modernity. However, it is possible that at the top there is a loose conceptual design, at the bottom there are exercises for a specific order. It does not interfere.
Alexey Levchuk suggested an interesting design of the jewelry boutique. Fragments of ancient Russian frescoes appear on the walls in this technological interior, among the neutral light surfaces, which, you see, is quite unexpected in such a place. The decorations themselves are hidden in showcases mounted in blocks, similar to "stone squares" from the "temple" that once existed here, which has been preserved, perhaps, in the "curb" that Levchuk introduces into the decoration. Not that it was new, the fragments of the frescoes were used by Mikhail Belov in his Faberge boutique (which had already disappeared), but the technique cannot be called completely worn out.
This festival, I must say, presented approximately the same level of work. Everything, without exception, was done quite professionally, and however, among them there was not one that could "catch" the eye. So nobody got the Grand Prix this time. Either the customer went boring, or at the peak of pre-crisis construction, they thought more about how to manage to cope with orders that were pouring in like a cornucopia. In interiors, this stamp is more noticeable (and is caused, of course, by fashion), in country houses - to a lesser extent, possibly due to the conditions of a particular area. But finally, the conveyor has stopped, and you can draw something conceptual, not for the customer. It seems that the next festival will be interesting, there we will just see the fruits of this lull, perhaps projects of economical housing or utopian design that can make the nomination “project-idea” more diverse.
We publish the full list of awardees, kindly provided by the organizers:
Jury members of the Festival:
1. Breslavtsev Oleg
2. Zabuga Eduard
3. Korobyina Irina
4. Litvinov Victor
5. Logvinov Victor
6. Pochechueva Natalia
7. Fesenko Dmitry
1. Move No. 102 "Aviary for Adam's Lion" from the "Public Interior" nomination to the "Interior Decoration" nomination
2. Grand Prix not to be awarded
3. To award first place:
In the category "Residential Interior"
- Apartment "Through the Looking Glass"
Author: Ivan Shalmin
In the category "Public interior"
- Reconstruction of the Grid Control Center of JSC "MOESK", control room
Authors: Alexey Goryainov, Mikhail Krymov, Timur Bashkaev
"T. Bashkaev's architectural bureau" together with "Arch group"
In the category "Interior Decoration":
- Aviary for Adam's lion
Authors: "Architectural Factory December 32"
In the category "Interior Detail":
- Golf club PIRogovo. Bar counter
Author: Yuri Avvakumov
In the nomination "Subject in the interior" and "Author's object installation
- Author's furniture
Author: Dmitry Gazhevsky
In the category "Completed Country House"
Award the first two places:
- "Dutch house" Individual residential house in Samara
Authors: Valentin Pastushenko, Vitaly Samogorov, K. Pikalov
Architectural bureau of Pastushenko and Samogorov
- Cottage in the village "Evergreen"
Authors: Anton Mosin, Vera Kazachenkova, Stanislav Kirichenko
Architectural bureau "Mosin and Partners"
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
Do not award first place
4. To award second place:
In the category "Residential Interior"
- Apartment in Jurmala
Author: Vladimir Malashonok
Artradar architects
In the category "Public interior"
It was unanimously decided to award two second places:
- Golf club "PIRogovo"
Authors: Totan Kuzembaev, Anna Rodionova, Danir Safiullin, Olga Kosova
Architectural workshop of Totan Kuzembaev
- Office in Moscow
Authors: Arseny Borisenko, Pyotr Zaitsev
Architectural workshop "za bor"
In the category "Interior decoration"
Second place not to be awarded
In the category "Interior Detail"
By the totality of works:
- Jewelry boutique "Vladimir Mikhailov"
- The interior of the shopping complex
Author: Alexey Levchuk
In the nomination "Subject in the interior" and "Author's object installation
- Lamp-transformer "Amoebius"
Author: Victor Freidenberg
In the category "Completed Country House"
- "House over the ravine"
Authors: Alexey Ginzburg, Dmitry Ryzvanov, Laura Lundina, Ginzburg Architects Architectural Workshop
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
- Private residential building, Moscow region, Shishkin forest
Author: Natalia Voinova
Architectural bureau "PlanAR"
5. To award third place:
In the category "Residential Interior"
Award two third places:
- Apartments "Aelita" in Malaga, Spain
Authors: Gleb Belyaev
Ekaterina Zabavnikova, Oksana Natalina
- Apartment of Mr. "SHMAR"
Authors: Olga Sonnova, Dmitry Stoyanov
In the category Public interior
Award two third places:
- Office of the international network advertising agency "SAATCHI & SAATCHI"
Authors: Dmitry Ovcharov, Boris Voskoboinikov
Studio "NEFARESEARCH"
- Gallery TSEKH V
Authors: Alexey Kozyr, Ilya Babak, Maria Shustrova
Architectural workshop of Alexey Kozyr
In the category "Interior decoration"
No third place awarded
In the category "Interior Detail"
No third place awarded
In the nomination "Subject in the interior" and "Author's object installation
Award two third places:
- A series of lamps: "Pinoccoteca light library"
Authors: Creative workshop of Alexey Shevchuk "ARTBUZ"
- "Antibyt" Complex equipment for the living environment
Authors: "Workshop - TAF"
In the category "Completed Country House"
- Residential building with orange sky
Authors: Arseny Borisenko, Pyotr Zaitsev
Architectural workshop "za bor"
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
Award two third places:
- "X-7"
Author: Sergey Nasedkin, Architectural workshop "ARCH.625"
- Individual residential building in the village of Repino, Leningrad region
Authors: Sergey Oreshkin, Alexey Nikandrov, Evgeniya Oreshkina
Design and production company "A-LEN"
6. To confer the title of "Laureate" with the presentation of the Diploma:
In the category "Residential Interior"
Penthouse with a view of Vienna. Reconstruction with superstructure
Authors: Andrey Sysoev, Lyudmila Goryunkova
Architectural bureau "SMArt-project"
- Residential apartments for corporate receptions on Vorobyovy Gory
Authors: Tatiana Smirnova, Alexander Volkov
Architectural bureau "Quadro"
In the category "Public interior"
- Restaurant "Yar", Samara
Authors: Dmitry and Maria Khramov
Khramov Architectural Bureau
- FM café club on Vernadsky Avenue
Authors: Authors of the project: Vadim Starikov, Grigory Marov
Architectural bureau "Marov & Starikov"
- Business center "Time Center"
Authors: Trukhanov Sergey, Voevodina Polina, Koryukina Galina, Milhouse concept design
- Restaurant "Ozon"
Authors: Architects: Alexander Zusik, Svetlana Pankratova, Mikhail Goryachev, Architecton LLC
- Museum of Technology
Authors: Vladimir Bondarenko, Elena Kudinova, Dmitry Fomenko
- Bank on Ostozhenka
Author: Anna Kurbatova
Architectural workshop "ANNA KURBATOVA ARCHITECTS"
- Restaurant chain "Dymov No. 1"
Authors: Vadim Bogdanov, Alexey Kuzmin, Andrey Samonaev
Architectural bureau "Sretenka"
- Municipal school and kindergarten "Sobolenok", the village of Uvat, Uvat district, Tyumen region.
Authors: Svetlana Artemova, Evgeniya Seredkina, Interior Center Domino Group (Yekaterinburg)
In the category "Interior decoration"
- Apartment on Leninsky
Author: Elena Haricheva
In the category "Interior Detail"
- Mirror Coral Branch
Author: Alla Shumeiko
In the nomination "Subject in the interior" and "Author's object installation
- Guest hanger
Author: Boris Morozov
- Chair "Ideology"
Author: Andrey Morin
- "Spring"
Author: Victor Reshetnikov
- Rack "Write letters"
Author: Elena Teplitskaya
In the category "Completed residential building"
- Country house number 2
Authors: Vsevolod Medvedev, Zurab Basaria, Mikhail Kanunnikov, Oleg Medinsky
Architectural bureau "FOURTH DIMENSION"
- House of Mr. Yu. V. Karasev
Authors: Alexander Zusik, Ekaterina Seryogina, Irina Samarina
LLC "Architecton"
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
- "House of the Elements. In Search of Harmonious Space"
Author: Irina Chufistova
- House M
Authors: Sergey Gikalo, Alexander Kuptsov
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