The Internet continues to discuss the construction of a park on the territory of the former hotel "Russia". Thus, aromus in his blog reflects on the sensational article by the architect Kirill Ass "To save Zaryadye from Putin and his park." The author is sure that the territory of the Rossiya hotel should be saved not from Putin, but from abandonment and degradation, and so far the best solution is to lay out the park. It is also possible here to recreate the grid of historical streets, and the relief, and the chapel of Nikola Mokroi. But the most important thing is “to create the very idea of a monument to the city”, and not to build up the territory with multifunctional objects, the author believes. You can see the Zaryadye of the 1930s in the blog "My Moscow". It contains 3D images of panoramas, streets and individual houses of Zaryadye with local history explanations for each segment of the Internet walk.
Marina Khrustaleva in her blog on the Snob portal talks about block 998 and Rusakovskaya street in Moscow - a "reserve" of architecture of the Soviet avant-garde era. " The reason for this publication was the information that on February 24, the commission for the consideration of issues of urban planning activities within the boundaries of places of interest and protection zones of cultural heritage objects had to decide the fate of several houses in Rusakovskaya Street, as well as the "workers' settlement" - block 998. However, according to On the initiative of the Prefecture of VAO, the "tolerable" commission has postponed the decision for now. However, according to Marina Khrustaleva, this does not mean that the quarter will be preserved: it is known that a project for a new development of the territory is already being developed.
You can read about the masterpiece of classicism architecture - Pashkov's house in Moscow - in the blog aroundtree. The author writes about the history of the architectural monument, about the museum and library located there, opened in the middle of the 19th century by Count Nikolai Rumyantsev, and even about some regular readers of the Rumyantsev Public Library, one of which was, for example, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Nowadays, there are three library departments in the Pashkov house - the research department of manuscripts, the department of music publications and sound recordings, and the department of cartography.
This week, there are several articles on obscure architecture. So, the architect Dmitry Novikov on his website talks about three different cities - Bombay, Dnepropetrovsk and Jurmala. The first post is dedicated to Bombay - the center of this city was built up mainly at the end of the 19th century with colonial mansions and government buildings. At this time, the English architect F. Stevens worked in Bombay, who combined the English Gothic of the Victorian era and Hindu motives in his buildings. Several buildings were built according to his designs, including the Victoria Terminus station. In an article about Dnepropetrovsk, the author writes that the local architecture is striking in its uniqueness, dissimilarity and contrast - the proximity of classical and modern architecture. The third post by Dmitry Novikov is dedicated to the resort city in Latvia - Jurmala. The author tells about the unique monuments of wooden architecture, modern mansions and cottages of the city. Local historian Denis Romodin in his blog talks about the city of Drezna in the Moscow region, which was formed as a workers' settlement around the Zimin spinning and weaving factory. Over the years, the village became a city, while retaining the weaving industry.
On the UrbanUrban blog, you can learn about the US transition from the traditional regular grid of streets of the early 20th century to the dead-end grid of suburbs of the middle of the last century. The article summarizes the findings of Norman Garrick and Wesley Marshall, experts at the University of Connecticut Department of Construction and Environmental Engineering. After examining street grids, they concluded that, contrary to popular belief, a regular grid is safer than a dead end, which is created more for cars than for people: in dense regular urban development, residents often walk or move by bicycle, in the suburbs, people are forced to constantly driving a car, which increases the risk of accidents.
