For almost a year, nothing was heard about the Perm Strategic Master Plan. In 2010, he was successfully shown at Arch Moscow, and then launched a prosecution for divulging state secrets. This summer, the ridiculous accusations were finally dropped, and the document was again talked about in a positive way. So, at the recent St. Petersburg forum "Proestate 2011" he received high marks from experts. This topic, in turn, sparked a discussion on the SkyscraperCity blog. As in previous blogging discussions of the Perm master plan, most commentators criticize it, and only Alexander Lozhkin defends it, however, stubbornly and motivated.
Opponents of the master plan continue to criticize the thesis about the consolidation of the urban center, where, at the suggestion of KCAP, it is planned to develop a segment of low-rise housing. Such housing is priced at 50 thousand or more per sq. M. - not for the bulk of Perm; the city cannot be kept compact - it will start to spread anyway, vojeka believes, "since the cost of an apartment in a new building becomes comparable to a cottage." Starover_21 agrees - nothing can be done about 9-16-storey buildings. And the master plan, he believes, "in their right mind can be supported only by those who are already doing well, but it is annoying that Perm does not look like a European city."
Alexander Lozhkin is sure that a simple increase in the volume of construction will not work to improve the lives of poor Perm residents. Moreover: continuing to build high-rise and low-quality residential areas at 30-35 thousand per sq.m. you can eventually get new ghettos - this is when the first settlers of small studio apartments start working and leave, and those who are poorer will settle in these apartments. If we take a course towards improving the quality of the existing urban environment, then options are possible - for example, modernizing old residential buildings according to the experience of Germany.
Alexander Lozhkin supports the quarterly development principle. For example, Starover_21 does not believe that a “quarter-square without vehicle access to the courtyard” and a yard of 40 by 40 m will work normally. Lozhkin, on the other hand, is confident that having entrances with access to the courtyard and the street, such houses will be able to load from the outside, and the courtyard will become a safe space for children.
Another argument of the opponents of the master plan was the factories that have been producing the same panel series for many years - how can they be stopped now? Lozhkin suggests re-profiling: “Smart plant owners (for example, PZSK) understood this before any master plans and are actively mastering more modern technologies, for example, a monolithic frame. Others do not want to change anything at all, but shout loudly. Although it is possible, in fact, to build 6 floors in the 97th series, at least”.
Meanwhile, while they were arguing and suing over the master plan, the document itself had already been adopted. True, it will work only when officials accept, and so-called. the plan for the implementation of the General Plan, as well as the PZZ.
Another topic that is now widely discussed in blogs is the demolition of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque that happened over the weekend. There were only two such pre-revolutionary structures in the capital and, of course, there was no warrant for the destruction of the monument, although the status of a monument was stripped of it back in 2009. Another act of construction vandalism caused outrage not only in Arhnadzor, but also split the Muslim community itself. An anonymous commentator on the blog xena-282 recalls: “It was a real Tatar courtyard, where life was mostly on the street. The mosque very organically linked this entire microdistrict, created the mood of a patriarchal peaceful life, in which all people live in friendship and harmony. "“Now Muslims will have their own fake concrete analogue of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior,” a certain Stas sneers in the Arkhnadzor blog. "As if during this" reconstruction "minarets did not appear, taller than the" Olympic ", - fears tigelin. - And bockoba is surprised: the construction next to the mosque has been in full swing for several years, the project is known: “the new minaret is already standing,” and “the new mosque is being made concrete-monolithic”. So the demolition was a very predictable event.
Nevertheless, many supporters of the total "reconstruction" of the monument have also expressed their opinion on the Internet. In Ilya Varlamov's blog nohchi93 notes: “For you, maybe this is an architectural monument, but for Muslims a place for daily prayers…. Therefore, I think, "the end justifies the means." junayd_dag in assabur magazine agrees: “So what if the mosque was demolished? The new one will be in this place. So the Haram mosque was demolished several times, and the Kaaba was also rebuilt. This reverence for architecture, especially since this architecture was not particularly there, I do not understand at all. " In the blog of "Arkhnadzor" a similar thought was expressed by a certain Sergei: “Why not? There is a mosque in Otradnoye - so in the same complex with a mosque there is a restaurant, shops, almost a tire service. So, here, the request of the "Muslim community" is quite mercantile. The old building is not adapted for any additional services. " - “Russian Railways demolishes its own stations and builds new ones in their place, new ones are more spacious and more convenient. How is a mosque fundamentally different from a railway station? - belka2_5 supports. - And what, to protect, strengthen, restore and build only on clean and empty territory in a distant castle?"
Yekaterinburg has recently lost two historical buildings - the manor house and the outbuilding, which were in the possession of the merchant Panfilov (Rosa Luxemburg Street, 65 and 67), were destroyed there. Reconstructors assure: "The building collapsed before the arrival of the equipment!" - well, almost like a Moscow mosque, which, according to the builders, destroyed itself. The blogs of Yekaterinburg activists have been boiling since the end of August, when the wing was demolished: for example, Oleg Bukin, for example, is covering the situation in detail. Nevertheless, an examination carried out by the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Field of Cultural Heritage concluded that the methods of carrying out the "restoration" work are correct. Someone OM in the blog on mail.ru is indignant: “Everything is as usual - the old mansions were brought to an emergency state, and then, under the pretext of restoration of the building, they were destroyed. Good restoration - with a bucket … ". The outcome of events, by the way, was obvious long before the demolition. For example, what an_kislicin wrote in the blog of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region: “Now in Yekaterinburg it is planned to destroy 2 architectural monuments. Moreover, this will be done by the hands of MUGISO. House in the style of late classicism "and st. Rosa Luxemburg 65, letter B, “The estate of YI Panfilov, the former chamber of weights and measures. Wing ". There are no more houses! Give only the opportunity to start construction next to the historic house and that's it: you can safely say that Yekaterinburg will never see this house again!"
Now they promise to restore the estate in order to lease it out for offices.
