In St. Petersburg, the idea of placing not only offices and mini-hotels, but also multi-level parking lots in historical buildings is actively discussed. This initiative has both supporters and opponents who believe that such a reprofiling would be too expensive. As an argument in favor, the Live City blog cites the example of the Franklin Parkolóház parking project implemented in Budapest, which was built in 2007 in a historic building of the early 20th century on the narrow Reáltanoda street in the old town. The building is partly protected as a monument, so the front part facing the street has been preserved, and the parking lot has been arranged in the inner part of the house, which goes deep into the quarter. The project uses a fully automated parking system, which made it possible to make tiers of a minimum height and place as many as 11 ground levels in the building. As a reminder, there are 16 buildings on the list of candidates for parking lots in St. Petersburg.
The "Arch group" workshop has published on its website a project for the reconstruction of the "Spartak" station - perhaps the most legendary unfinished building of the Moscow metro. Laid down in 1975, the station is located on the stretch between Shchukinskaya and Tushinskaya and today it is an uncoated and practically unlit platform, which trains pass without slowing down. Plans to reactivate the station emerged back in the late 1990s, but the authorities' real interest in this project was attracted by the implementation of the construction of the stadium of the same name, scheduled for 2007. The economic crisis postponed the implementation of the project for an indefinite period, but in January of this year, the Moscow authorities again promised to reopen Spartak. The concept, developed by the Arch group, provides for the separation of passengers from trains by means of a special glass tube carried by criss-crossing metal profiles. For greater rigidity, the structure is planned to be reinforced with stretch marks attached to the existing ceiling.
A similar constructive idea in Calgary has already been implemented by the famous Santiago Calatrava, who built a bridge in the form of a glass tube in a metal "braid". According to Shu's blog, "The bridge, designed to last for 75 years and is flood-resistant, caused an aesthetic shock to some locals, but those more versed in modern architecture took it with a bang."
The blog "Architectural Heritage" continues a series of publications about the capitals of the Baltic States. This time Tallinn is in the spotlight. The author of the post notes that, unlike many cities, Tallinn is being renewed quite reasonably: "the old remains untouchable, despite all possible appetites, but the abandoned unkempt spaces of the coastal zone are gradually cleared and filled with new harmonious architectural content."
Architect Dmitry Novikov acquaints readers of his blog with an interesting experiment to transform a modern typical cottage into a “traditional Russian manor”. “I set myself the goal of studying the techniques and methods of“Russian architecture”, rethinking them, possibly changing them in some way, adapting them to modern construction conditions and bringing them to my potential customers and everyone who is interested in it,” the architect explains. design.
"Arkhnadzor" recalls that this April marks the 40th anniversary of the rescue from demolition of two unique monuments of the 17th century - the Red and White Chambers on the "arrow" of Ostozhenka and Prechistenka. This is one of the first and most striking stories of the city-defense struggle in the capital, which became a kind of precedent and determined the "scheme" according to which the destruction of old Moscow is still being resisted today. And Efim Freidin in his blog published an article dedicated to two famous defenders of the heritage of the first half of the 20th century - Count Valentin Zubov and Pyotr Baranovsky. By his own admission, the author pursued the goal of "once again telling the history of the formation of models of heritage defenders and, through their motivation, to raise the problem of the modernity of such behavior."
Alexander Mozhaev in his blog on the Strana.ru portal asks who is the author of the twelve “Aleviz” churches and how many architects with that name actually existed. The blog "Moscow Heritage" publishes material on the history of the complex of buildings of the Moscow Architectural Institute on Rozhdestvenka. The author of this post, Maria Troshina, also asked the teachers and students of the Moscow Architectural Institute to tell their versions of the history of the monument, which they have to visit almost every day. And the blog "My Moscow" tells about the disappeared buildings on Oktyabrskaya Street, which today can only boast of typical panel high-rise buildings.
Afisha magazine involved not only Russian, but also foreign architects in the discussion about the projects developed within the framework of the competition for the concept of building up the territory of Zaryadye. In particular, the selected works of the competition participants are evaluated by the landscape architect of the Snohetta bureau, Jenny Osuldsen, who was most surprised by the fear of Russian designers to create a park without any additional functions. “The climate is not a hindrance. Parks can be attractive in winter, Osuldsen is convinced. - Yes, yes, I'm from Norway, our climate is no better - I know what I'm talking about. And you can go skating, downhill, you can play snowballs. But people who build something in the city are often too worried about the cold - they think that people need to hide somewhere, and they build all these shopping malls. I would like to tell them: "Hey guys, we have been living here on the surface of the Earth for a long time and we are somehow coping." And "Moskovskiye Novosti" introduces its readers to 25-year-old French architect Alexis Gaden, one of the participants in the aforementioned competition, who is seriously going to link his professional life with our country. The comments on this article are especially interesting: alas, most bloggers consider Gaden an outright eccentric and condemn him for his "strange" addiction to Russia.
