Information about the planned dismantling of the current building of the Kursk railway station appeared in the press just a few days ago. “Now his new project is being developed. We propose to the city to deploy the new Kurskiy railway station towards the embankment (the Yauza River - ed.), So that it can be approached from three sides at once ", Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 - quotes the words of the head of the Railway Directorate railway stations of Russian Railways Sergei Abramov "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
The bloggers' reaction to this news was far from cheerful. “The project is prohibitively expensive and stupid by definition. And what to do with all the innovations that, for convenience and other things, have been put into operation at the Kursk railway station today? Well them, huh? Let's build again … The money is out of our pocket, not out of ours. And what, we will not ask the residents again? Will we break the law? What do we want, then we will return? Ah, the Atrium was built! Fathers! To demolish - and that's the end of it,”writes one of the authors of the community“Our Heritage”. These statements resonated with other users. “The shopping center there is just game. It could not be built. It is necessary to demolish this "Atrium", - the first responds erema_o. “The entrances to the station have nothing to do with it. And the "Atrium" does not bother them, according to the project, it will remain in place. The task is to remove the station itself to the lower level, and build up offices and hotels, shopping and other complexes higher (how much space will be free!). So, as a result, if the entrance is bad now, then if the project is implemented, there will be a traffic collapse at all, "explains harpist_ka." An old building with interiors that seem to be monuments of some significance is included in the currently standing "new building" of the station. … ", - makes an important clarification boch_boris1953.
Obviously, this project will become the subject of discussion for both bloggers and media representatives more than once. A similar resonance in the blogosphere was caused by the project of an experimental development area, which can be implemented in Perm on the initiative of the governor Oleg Chirkunov. Elite townhouses and low-rise residential buildings can be erected on the site of the now existing area of the DKZh, the issue of resettlement of which has not yet been finally resolved. However, the project lobbied by Chirkunov has other controversial issues. One of them is associated with the peculiarities of the layout of these buildings, in particular, with the problem of insolation of apartments in buildings that are a closed perimeter. Denis Galitsky, a human rights activist, a member of the Perm City Planning Council, expresses his doubts about the profitability of such buildings in his blog. According to Galitsky's calculations, in winter, on the darkest day of the year, sunlight will be visible only in the windows of the uppermost (and, at best, also the penultimate) floor in the “ring” house. “The conclusion is disappointing: in ideal neighborhoods, only residents of a couple of upper floors will see the sun in winter, the courtyard will not be illuminated at all. But these quarters will have up to six floors, so you can imagine such a well. And in winter, without sunlight, many Perm people simply fall into depression. I know those. And not just one."
Galitsky's opinion does not coincide with the position of the user ar_chitect: “From your entry it follows that Chirkunov is a principled opponent of insolation for the unfortunate Perm people. As for the future tenants, following your logic, you need to build houses for them half a kilometer apart. So that everyone has an equal opportunity to see a ray of the Sun on the evening of December 23rd. Tell about it somewhere at Goryunov's or at a similar gathering of Perm square-meter draftsmen. You will be understood, appreciated and warmly thanked for your science. The author of the post replies to this with the following: “As for Chirkunov and Goryunov, their team has repeatedly stated that insolation in the“ideal quarters”will be significantly higher than the SanPiN minimums, so they seem to understand the importance, but I can't imagine how it is can be provided. Some of the professional architects with whom I spoke do not represent this either. All questions would have been removed if the finished project of at least one quarter had been shown. Developers, to put it mildly, have doubts about what they will buy. There are already enough houses in Perm that meet the standards, but apartments are not for sale there. It's time to reflect on this, and the opinion of the developers is more important here than the opinion of the architects, since the developers are closer to their clients (future tenants) and know their preferences better”.
Another interesting material that has appeared on the Internet the other day is devoted to the problem of superstructures of architectural monuments and extensions to them. “In Moscow, there are a huge number of architectural monuments that do not just have superstructures of one period or another (they can often be considered quite organic stages of the building history of a house), but ugly, disharmonious elements,” says Alexander Mozhaev. - A typical example is Tutolmin's house on Shvivaya Gora, one of the best palaces in classical Moscow, which now looks like a state-owned Soviet building. However, the restorations accompanied by the removal of unnecessary layers from the monuments are remembered only by Soviet practice (for example, the English Court). " According to the author of the text, it is necessary to legislate the moment associated with the elimination of superstructures that disfigure the appearance of architectural monuments. “The city should have programs aimed at the subsequent elimination of openly discordant elements of the architectural environment. But in practice, nothing of the kind has ever happened; so far, only the goodwill of the owner can save the monument from ugliness and legalized overbuilt-attached squares. And this, as you understand, is something like a sometimes shooting stick."
In parallel with this, ArchNadzor continues to cover the situation related to the construction of protective structures on the Old Square. The territory on which the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation is located has already received the nickname “Closed City” in the blogosphere. The events of recent days have shown that the worst premonitions of the city defenders have been confirmed. Last week in the press there was an official statement of the representative of the Federal Security Service (FSO) Sergei Devyatov about the dismantling of the technological fence. However, literally the next day, the staff of "ArchNadzor" discovered new structures on the Old Square - not of a temporary, but of a completely permanent nature. “The ugly wall made of corrugated board began to be dismantled already on the 4th. In the FSO measurement system, a day is clearly considered a month, so not even a week has passed when most of the newly-minted defensive structure has already appeared in all its shocking glory. Nobody is clearly going to please us with information about its upcoming dismantling. The Great Chinese Fence has settled down seriously and for a long time,”writes Natalya Samover in the ArchNadzor blog.
Network users reacted with dislike to this news. “What horror and eclecticism! Fenced off …”, - grv69 responds. “An impressive sight! Memory immediately gives out a whole bunch of analogies and historical parallels, starting with the popular wisdom “Why was there a garden?”, Ending with shots from the film, where revolutionary sailors climb onto the bars of the Winter Palace,”harpist_ka agrees with this opinion. “How painful and offensive it is to look at such bad taste. This fence looks like a humiliation of the city and the townspeople,”adds jozhik_koljuchi. Blogger memeka makes a rationalization proposal: “Is it possible to mark on the map exactly where the fence passes? Now it is poorly imagined, in addition to the fact that it is now impossible to go straight to Varvarka along the administration building”.
However, bloggers also found much more positive reasons for discussions. In particular, the well-known prose writer Sergei Kuznetsov highly appreciates the material of Grigory Revzin about the "Cistern" project - a new exhibition of the architect Alexander Brodsky. “This is an amazing text. Accurate, touching, expressive. In addition, it is very important, it seems to me, for understanding some key issues, well, such as the attitude to the Soviet experience, “what time we live in”, “what can be done here,” etc. Kuznetsov writes. However, not everyone agrees with Kuznetsov's opinion. “Reducing a thin, non-trivial and scary exhibition by Brodsky to a feeling of Brezhnev space is a classic anecdote,“Doctor, where did you get such pictures,”writes user molcha. “It seems to me - well, I have not seen the exhibition - that the text as a whole is not about the Brezhnev era and not about stagnation, but about the feeling of the transcendent. That is, Grigory Revzin ties it to the Brezhnev time, but it doesn't matter. For me, the text sounds exactly like the fragment that I quote: "when we are gone, will anyone understand that there was beauty in us?" It seems to me that this is completely outside of the temporary, "- retorts the author of the blog.
