The new composition of the commission, which was previously called "bearable", and after the reform is called the commission for the implementation of urban planning activities in the territories of sights and protection zones, disappointed the defenders of the heritage. The quorum in it is still made up of officials serving the interests of the authorities, writes Gazeta.ru. In other words, the commission is organized in the same way as its predecessor, notes the coordinator of "Arkhnadzor" Rustam Rakhmatullin, an interview with whom the newspaper "Vzglyad" published. Only it has broader powers: it turns out that it will not only deal with projects for the development of protected zones, but also put monuments under protection, determine their territories, etc. "Those. first, the commission may decide that the building does not deserve the status of a monument, and then accept an application for its demolition! Absurdity and mockery”, - Rakhmatullin is indignant. "But historical objects outside the boundaries of the protected zones completely fall out of the jurisdiction of this body - in this case, will the prefecture be in charge of them?" - asks the city advocate. In general, for the good intentions of the Moscow Heritage Committee, Rakhmatullin can only see a desire to "smear the responsibility" of the department. In the current situation, one can only rely on "the political will of the new city leadership", notes Konstantin Mikhailov, coordinator of "Arkhnadzor" who entered the commission. However, the initiator of the changes, the head of the Moscow Heritage Committee, Alexander Kibovsky, promises to make the work of the new body as open as possible, and to protect the monuments with urban planning regulations.
As part of the Big Moscow project, the authorities unexpectedly returned to the extravagant idea of building roads on the roofs of low-rise buildings, on the site of the current power lines. At the same time, the networks themselves will be put into special boxes, the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti writes. T. N. The strassenhauses, developed by the German scientist Dr. Lip, were decided to be used as bait for investors. True, the former head of the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan of Moscow, Sergei Tkachenko, considers it dangerous: not only can buildings in the center simply collapse, such roads will not solve the transport problem, because the center needs not quarter roads, but highways that are simply unrealistic to be placed on the roofs.
Another innovative proposal of the authorities for "Big Moscow" was modern student campuses - the same "Moscow News" found out that one of the first - for the Higher School of Economics - will appear in the neighborhood of Troitsk near Moscow. In addition to dormitories, it will also include townhouses for faculty members, a congress center, libraries and a sports complex. The development concept already exists - it was chosen during a competition in which the students of the Moscow Architectural Institute won. Architect Mikhail Khazanov supports the idea of building campuses and new universities in the annexed territories, since "they can take over the city-forming function." The main thing is that “for the design and construction of campuses, we should not hold closed tenders“for money,”but open creative contests in which ideas compete,” Khazanov is sure.
By the way, one of the key figures in Moscow urban planning - the current director of the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan of Moscow and the former chief architect of Kazan Ernst Mavlyutov - approves of the idea of creative competitions, and especially involving students. In an interview with RIAN Real Estate, Mavlyutov said that the more architects will be involved in developing the concept of a new Moscow agglomeration, the better: “Let, say, 500 people take part. I have no doubt that we will find a dozen, and maybe even fifty young specialists who can then be recruited. Foreign architects are also needed here - so that, according to Mavlyutov, “useful and productive brainstorming sessions can be carried out,” but many of them are not at all ready for Russian realities, the head of the Research and Development Institute added.
Together with the "Big Moscow" project, the capital's Polytechnic Museum regularly becomes the hero of our latest reviews - only on Friday, October 14, the winner of the competition for the project of its reconstruction was finally determined. A few days before the announcement of the results, the architectural critic Grigory Revzin published an article in which he actually predicted the victory of Zunya Ishigami and explained why he was categorically not satisfied with this choice. According to Revzin, the Ishigami project bought some of the jury members for its conceptual simplicity, suggesting that the technique should not be viewed as a victory over nature, but its direct continuation - therefore, in a 4-meter hole under the museum, it is proposed to set up a garden, and to cover the building with an innovative coating imitating heaven. This last one, which needs constant monitoring, “is simply incompatible with our level of technological culture,” the expert is sure, and may well collapse on its head. But since for some reason officials always want to “build something that is not found anywhere else in the world,” we have the result that it does.
Meanwhile, not far from the Polytechnic Museum, the investor is building on the Orlov-Davydov house of the architect Eduard Nierman. Arkhnadzor is outraged by this state of affairs and has published photographs of Lubyanskaya Square, which clearly show how an awesome hulk is growing behind the metro pavilion.
But in St. Petersburg, one dome-superstructure will be reduced: according to Baltinfo, in the new project for the reconstruction of the Nikolsky market, investors still abandoned the 18-meter glass cover. The structure is "too heavy and cannot rely on a historical building", and in winter "precipitation from the dome would fall on the building itself, which could lead to the destruction of the object." To cover the losses from the uncovered courtyard, the investor came up with the idea of placing a two-storey underground parking and 8 glass office buildings with a total area of 9 thousand square meters inside the rows. m. The investor's step towards the monument, of course, pleases, however, the emergency building with a collapsed roof now somehow has to spend the winter - alas, the owners did not bother to prepare it for wintering.
