Indeed, the exhibition does not change much from year to year, as does the eternally reconstructed House on Brestskaya, from which the “market” 1990s still inexorably emanate. However, such a tradition, apparently, is perceived by the participants of "Landscape Architecture" as an indicator of sustainability that is so necessary in a time of crisis - this year architects and designers pulled themselves into a familiar house with a vengeance.
As you know, the founder of this exhibition is Moskomarkhitektura, and its permanent patron is the main artist of the capital, Igor Voskresensky, who annually delivers fiery speeches at the opening of Landscape Architecture for the high quality of urban landscaping. Having visited the exhibition this year, we can say with confidence that the calls of Mr. Voskresensky have been heard.
Almost a third of all exhibition areas are allocated to urban landscape design projects, where the workshops of "Mosproekt-2" and "Mosproyekt-4" presented a variety of options for the improvement of squares, parks, boulevards, etc. And if a few years ago it was very difficult to immediately name at least one significant object of landscape design in modern Moscow, now the choice is truly great. True, I mean, first of all, the very number of realizations, because there are still problems with such quality as “modernity”. What is now commonly called "landscape design" - objects created using "green" technologies and environmentally friendly materials - is practically absent at the exhibition. But on it, compositions made in the classicist spirit are presented in abundance. For example, a square with a round granite flower bed and a fountain in the middle, built between the Stalinist skyscraper on Kudrinskaya Square and the building of Novinsky Passage. The project for the improvement of Krasnogvardeisky Boulevard ("Mosproekt-2") is also strict and serious. But the landscape architects of Mosproekt-4 and the LAARDI bureau consider themselves, rather, the heirs of the tradition of modernism of the 1960s: their projects (for example, the Severnoye Tushino park or the reconstruction of the area around the Raduga ponds at the intersection of Zhemchugovaya Alley with the street Youth) are more ambitious and laconic in the use of decorative elements. For the first time in the exposition of "Landscape architecture" there was also a project of lighting design for a complex of buildings - the Museum of Cosmonautics on Prospect Mira. Most likely, this is just the first response to the recent statement by Igor Voskresensky about the development of a new concept of a unified light-color environment for the capital, and there will be more of them in the coming years.
A relatively new genre for domestic landscape architecture is also the improvement of the territories of churches, monasteries and farmsteads, where designers are required to be especially sensitive to the historical and cultural heritage, the specific characteristics of objects and their special purpose. This genre is represented by projects for the improvement of the Assumption St. George Monastery and the Martha-Mariinsky Monastery.
Regions such as Yakutia, a permanent participant of the exhibition, are quite capable of competing with the works of Moscow architects in terms of the quality and scope of landscape projects. This year "Landscape Center of Yakutia" showed an interesting project for the reconstruction of a park-monument to exiled Poles in Yakutsk. The area, once flooded by the city's drainage canal, is now revitalized with elegant wood flooring and compositions from native plants.
Even at the first cursory acquaintance with the exposition, it is striking how, in comparison with previous years, the number of private objects has decreased. Obviously, the landscape workers, like the rest of the shop representatives, have experienced all the "delights" of the economic crisis. Orders have decreased by an order of magnitude, but the stylistic preferences of customers have not yet come to a common denominator. As the exposition in the House on Brestskaya vividly testifies, the overwhelming majority of private gardens continue to be designed "in styles" - here there is antiquity, and Victorian England, and Art Nouveau. For example, the project "Ninfei Story" is imbued with the spirit of antiquity: a real peristyle has been created on the personal plot, inside of which is a miniature copy of the famous Ninfa Garden. The Krasnodar residential complex "Royal Square", which reproduces not just anything, but the Parisian Vosges square, is also striking! The French regular park serves not only as a treat for the eyes, but also as a "cover" for the underground 2-level parking.
The abundance of works of this kind greatly exacerbated the desire to find at least a few truly modern and innovative projects at the exhibition. And persistent searches were rewarded in the end. For example, an interesting project for landscaping the roof of a pumping station is envisaged as part of the reconstruction of the floodplain of the Chermyanka River (a team led by G. Likhterova) - a labyrinth park, a playground and a sports area are being set up on the roof of an industrial facility. And Anton Kochurkin from the 8 Lines architectural group presented at the exhibition a project of a meteorological tower - a 40-meter structure, which will be part of the planned scientific meteorological center, is an interactive weather indicator. The stele is covered with a transparent material, under which LEDs are hidden - they will project weather data onto the surface of the tower. Interestingly, this facility uses exclusively solar energy for its work. The original design and compositional solutions also drew attention to the Berloga exhibition pavilion on Lake Seliger (INN - GROUP), reminiscent of Yuri Grigoryan's Mercury Theater in its folds, and Parovoz, the witty kebab maker of the Tvoryuki art group.
That part of the exhibition space, which this year due to the crisis was not occupied by private projects, was used by students of the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Moscow Architectural Institute and the Faculty of Soil Science of Moscow State University to exhibit their graduation works. It also houses art objects made in the framework of the new competition nomination "Tree of Life". Among others, two "trees" stood out for their scale - a wooden idol of Yakut designers and a huge character invented by the architect Kirill Bair. Two well-known studios - the children's art school "Start" and the workshop "TAF" also did not stay away from experiments with the "tree": the first ones dressed up in flower-bed dresses of mannequins, and the second made a tree of "culture and traditions" from which "sprouts creativity ".
A complete list of laureates of the Landscape Architecture. A View from Home …”we will publish on November 2 when the winners are announced by the jury. However, even now, with a high degree of probability, it can be predicted that almost all participants in the competition will receive awards, since there are a lot of nominations in it, and all the characters are familiar and friendly with each other. And this once again makes us think about the very format of this event. Of course, the annual review of achievements in the field of landscape design is a very necessary thing, but the way it is organized and conducted today is less and less consistent with modern festival standards and the projects presented at it. Therefore, congratulating the Landscape Architecture exhibition on its anniversary, most of all I would like to wish it creativity and fresh ideas.
Below we publish the full list of the awardees provided by the organizers:
GRAND PRIX was not awarded
1st place
In nomination "City-wide territories"
Landscape organization of the territory of the shopping and office city center at the address: st. B. Gruzinskaya, ow. 71
Authors: "Mosproekt-2" them. M. V. Posokhin, Workshop number 10
In nomination "Household plots"
Award the first two places:
1. "Modern Garden"
Author: Oksana Khleborodova
2. "Ninfe Story"
Authors: Maria Ozhereleva, Olga Mayorova, Mikhail Sudakov
In nomination "Element of landscape design"
"Color and Shadow"
Authors: Lyudmila Belykh, Olga Shadrina, "Belstudio"
In nomination "Subject in the landscape"
"Volcano Hyperboloid Cooling Tower"
Authors: Nikolay Polissky
In nomination "Project"
"Post-industrial park on the territory of the ZIL plant - Bird Park"
Author: Anna Korchagina
2nd place
In nomination "City-wide territories"
Comprehensive improvement of the territory of the ensemble "Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy"
Authors: Mosproekt-3, Workshops No. 16
In nomination "Urban courtyard spaces"
By the totality of works
The project of complex improvement of the territory of the gymnasium №625 on the street. Shvernik, 17, building
City Clinical Hospital No. 15
Comprehensive landscaping project of the Moscow State Pedagogical University in Zelenograd
Authors: LLC "LAARDI"
In nomination "Household plots"
Award two runners-up:
1. Playing with the sun in a pine forest
Authors: Kichenko Tatiana, Kruglova Irina, "Firm Fittonia"
2. Forest area in the village "New time"
Author: Igor Fedorov, Landscape Company "New Garden"
In nomination "Element of landscape design"
"Lefortovo parterre"
Authors: Lydia Leontyeva, Alexandra Kukushkina, Elizaveta Ginsburg, Elena Seregina, Olga Pitsakova
In nomination "Subject in the landscape"
Award two runners-up
1. "Wave"
Authors: Creative team: Alexey Chernikov, Tatiana Didkovskaya, Sergey Efimov, Ilyana Sorochinskaya
2. "Den" on Seliger, Ball "Megafon", Benches
Authors: Michurin Sergey, Konyukov Andrey, Vasiliev Petr, INN-Group
In nomination "Project"
Village "Little Italy"
Author: Maria Bodnya, ROMBOSTYLE LLC
3rd place
In nomination "Citywide territories"
Award two thirds
1. Reconstruction of the park adjacent to the building of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk
Authors: "Minskproekt", a team of authors under the direction of Irina Sinelnik
2. "The concept of artistic solutions and the layout of flower beds in urban areas"
Authors: "Mosproekt-3", Workshop No. 14
In nomination "Urban courtyard spaces"
Club village "Evergreen"
Author: Maria Bodnya, ROMBOSTYLE LLC
In nomination "Household plots"
Award two thirds
1. "Minimalism of contrasts"
Author: Marina Arkadieva, "ASK-landscape"
2. "Seven acres, seven squares"
Author: Vladimir Kryachko, Marina Kryachko, Sergey Simanchuk, ArtGeo landscape group,
In nomination "Element of landscape design"
Award two thirds
1. "Simulated Island"
Authors: Landscape workshop of the Sergeevs
2. Architectural lighting of the square near the "Cosmos" monument
Authors: "Mosproekt-3" Workshop No. 9
In nomination "Subject in the landscape"
By the totality of works
"Tree town" Moscow"
"Parovoz" - brazier, grill, stove
Authors: Yuri Fushtey, Andrey Trubin, Tvoryuki Group
In nomination "Project"
Award four third places:
1. "HAPPY FAMILY" - a thematic concept for the design of the space of residential complexes in the city of Cheboksary
Authors: Cherepanova Marina, Maryina Olga, Landscape Design Firm "FLORITEL"
2. Conceptual design of the housing, tourism, sports and recreation and cultural and entertainment complex "Cote d'Azur" in the recreational zone of the southeastern district of Makhachkala
Authors: "Mosproekt-3", Workshop No. 4
3. The project of improvement and landscaping of the public area of the residential complex "Olipiyskaya Derevnya" in Novogorsk
Author: Alexander Shupeiko, Landscape Company "Verto"
4. "Relief story"
Author: Elena Astashkina
Special Prize of the Moskomarkhitektura "For High Professionalism"
In nomination "Project"
By the totality of works
LLC "Architecton", the head of Zusik A. I.
Title of the "Laureate" of the Competition with the presentation of the Diploma:
In nomination "Citywide territories"
"For a careful attitude to the natural complex"
"Matveevsky Forest". Rehabilitation and improvement
Team of authors: "Ecopark-prestige"
In nomination "Household plots"
"Garden of minimum care" in the village of Romantsevo
Author: Maria Proskurnina
"Bastion of wild herbs"
Author: Natalia Detkova, Ecoterra Design
"Cozy Malakhovka"
Team of authors: Firm "Garden of the Gods"
"The millstones of time"
Author: Vladimir Sergeev
For the continuity of romantic traditions
"Transparency of Being"
Authors: Vera Gerasimova, Irina Sapronova, Natalia Borisova, Arnat Design Studio
In nomination "Element of landscape design"
"Find your place in the picture of nature"
Authors: Elena Sedova, Svetlana Generalova, Natalya Brodovaya, Anastasia Studitskaya, Sadko Gardening Company
"Age of Beauty"
Author: Vita Bunina
In nomination "Project"
"Alone with God", Architectural concept of the development of the territory
Assumption St. George Monastery
Authors: Rodion Fatkullin, Nikolay Shirokov, "Promgrazhdanproekt" (Ufa)
"Bastion of wild herbs"
Author: Natalia Detkova, Ecoterra Design
Reconstruction project of the park-monument to exiled Poles in Yakutsk
Authors: Nikiforov V. A., Tsykun N. I., "Landscape Center of Yakutia"
"House in the city"
Author: Tatiana Gubskaya
By the totality of works
Improvement project for the citywide recreational area on the river. Kamenka (Zelenograd)
Authors: Design Studio MIET
In nomination "Subject in the landscape"
"Locust"
Authors: Workshop of art forging "Vakula-Master"
