Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE The results of the first reporting stage of the competition for the concept of the development of the Moscow agglomeration have been summed up, RIA Novosti reports. The most points (7.8 out of 10) were scored by the team, which includes the famous Dutch OMA, Project Meganom, the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design and Siemens. Less than the rest, only 4.8 points, received the Moscow Architectural Institute. According to the rules of the competition program, works rated below 5 points are not paid: the Moscow Architectural Institute was offered to continue participating in the competition free of charge, but the creative team refused this option of cooperation and, thus, dropped out of the competition.
The concept, developed by the Moscow Architectural Institute, provided for the development of the Moscow agglomeration in the form of a linear structure, where the infrastructure is built up on the beams going from the center to the region, explains The Village. But the Dutch, who won an intermediate victory, propose, in addition to the main center, to create four more - near the airports of Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Chkalovsky. In accordance with this scheme, in the Vnukovo area there will be government facilities, near Sheremetyevo - a zone of science and education, at Domodedovo - finance and business, and at Chkalovsky - industrial areas. The presence of airports in each of the zones, according to the authors of the project, will reduce the load on urban transport. The centers will be connected with each other by rail and other types of public transport. Meanwhile, not everyone liked OMA's ideas. Thus, the vice-president of the Union of Architects of Russia, Maxim Perov, believes that the “primitive content” of the basic concept is hidden behind the “artistic” presentation of the material. According to the official, the most detailed proposals were formulated by the workshop of Andrey Chernikhov, which considers not only Moscow, but also the regional centers around it. The final results of the competition, according to the chief architect of Moscow, Alexander Kuzmin, will be announced not earlier than the beginning of 2013. Let us remind you that not long ago a completely different date for summing up the results of the competition was called - September of the current year. The term has changed, among other things, due to the fact that the very concept of "agglomeration" will appear in the Urban Planning Code of the Russian Federation only by June 1, 2012.
This week, the results of a creative competition for the development of a concept for the development of public space on the site of the former hotel "Russia" were summed up. Of more than a hundred works, 30 best were selected, ten of which were determined by experts, ten were visitors to the exhibition, and ten more won by the results of an Internet vote. In the "popular" and Internet voting, projects that involve the recreation of historical lanes and a section of the Kitaygorodskaya wall, as well as the construction of image objects, for example, the Tatlin tower or a huge concert hall in the shape of a rose, won. The projects, selected by experts, are focused on a practical park area with a developed network of pedestrian paths and many viewing points. More detailed information about a part of the selected projects can be found on the portal of the Afisha magazine. The fate of Zaryadye will finally be determined by the second stage of the competition, which the authorities plan to hold among professional architects.
Bolshoi Gorod magazine publishes the main theses of three interviews with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, which he gave in one day. The mayor, in particular, spoke about the need to reorganize the industrial zones of the center, highlighting the most problematic areas - the territory behind the hotel "Ukraine" and the site near Bolotnaya Square. The mayor also spoke about the transport problems of the capital: Moscow's potential makes it possible to further increase the fleet of cars, but, nevertheless, priority should be given to public transport. In support of his words, Sergei Sobyanin this week approved a program for the construction of the metro in 2016-2020, on which the city authorities will spend 500 billion rubles, the Kommersant newspaper writes. In just five years, it is planned to build 33 stations and about 75 km of metro lines. A new metro line will appear on the territory annexed to the capital, and after 2020 the metro will be launched in the Moscow region - along Rublevskoye, Novorizhskoye and Shchelkovskoye highways. In particular, the existing lines will be extended and new branches built - from Maryina Roshcha to the north and from the Tretyakovskaya station to Vystavochnaya to the west. But the main efforts will be devoted to launching a new circular line, the so-called third interchange circuit, which will connect Kuntsevskaya, Prospekt Vernadsky, Kashirskaya, Pechatniki and Sokolniki stations. Its construction has already begun, according to the newspaper Moskovskaya Perspektiva.
The fate of the Moscow monorail is not so rosy. Due to its unprofitable nature, it will most likely be closed and then dismantled. The monorail was launched during the reign of Yuri Luzhkov as part of the infrastructure of the EXPO exhibition, which in the end was never held in Moscow. The main disadvantage of the monorail was that it did not provide a convenient connection to the metro: one end of it is located near the Timiryazevskaya station, while the other is at a decent distance from VDNKh. In addition, because of the winding track, the monorail cars move at a low speed.
In Moscow for rent for 49 years at a symbolic rate of 1 ruble per 1 sq. The first buildings were commissioned per year, however, the rent will become fabulously cheap only after new users restore the buildings. Three mansions in the city center were put up for sale: the Morozovs' town estate of the 17th-19th centuries, the merchant Baulin's residential house on Nikoloyamskaya Street and the main house of the 18th-19th century city manor in Podsosensky Lane. And in the Public Chamber, officials, architects, city rights activists, public figures and representatives of the museum community discussed the development project of the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. The director of the museum, Irina Antonova, said that at least three new buildings are needed for the effective development of the Pushkin Museum. In particular, additional space is needed to accommodate a cinema and concert hall, a depository, an exhibition center, a library, and also workshops. The coordinator of the Arkhnadzor public movement, Konstantin Mikhailov, suggested that the buildings of federal authorities vacated when moving to the territory of the “new” Moscow be transferred to the museum. He also supports the idea of museumification of seven estates in the outskirts of the Pushkin Museum. These measures, according to Mikhailov, will prevent the construction of new objects for the museum. Architect Sergei Skuratov believes that the museum can develop towards the embankment - from the gallery of Ilya Glazunov to the Moskva River. The scientific director of the Research Institute of Transport and Road Facilities Mikhail Blinkin, in turn, raises questions about the system of organizing traffic in the museum town. Despite all the disagreements and remarks, the participants in the meeting agreed on the need for the early development of the Pushkin Museum.
But the Center for Contemporary Culture "Garage" has already decided on its new place of residence - it will open in the pavilion "Seasons" of the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after Gorky. The reconstruction of the pavilion is carried out by the founder of the OMA bureau, Rem Koolhaas, together with the Russian bureau Form. The two floors of the pavilion will house all the spaces necessary for the center: performances, installations and video art will be shown on the first floor, and exhibitions of paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures on the second. The architect plans to preserve and even restore in some places the old brick walls covered with greenish mosaic, and place white panels under the ceiling around the perimeter of the hall, which, if necessary, can be lowered and thus change the color scheme of the room. The facade of the building will be covered with translucent polycarbonate, and its windows will start straight from the floor, blurring the line between the park and the space of the exhibition hall. In a few years, Garage will also take over the adjacent Hexagon pavilion, designed by the architect Ivan Zholtovsky. While the pavilions have not been reconstructed, the center will be located in the temporary pavilion of Gorky Park, which was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
The green zone around the Palace of Pioneers on Vorobyovy Gory may be deprived of the status of a monument of landscape gardening, the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti writes. Now the question of transferring the park to the category of "places of interest" is being resolved. It is planned to build the second phase of the palace on this territory, which will include not only an indoor sports arena, a swimming pool, educational and sports buildings and a summer theater, but also a hotel, as well as underground parking, attractions, food outlets and shopping galleries. In general, the second stage will almost double the area of existing buildings. However, the head of the Yauza-project architectural bureau, Ilya Zalivukhin, said that the project they had developed was not accepted, so now we can only talk about the restoration of the existing ensemble.
And Ogonyok magazine, in the light of the recently celebrated Monument Day, analyzes why most of Moscow's cultural heritage sites were closed to visitors. The publication makes a simple and disappointing conclusion: the luxurious old mansions were given to officials or oligarchs who fenced themselves off from the people with fences and access systems. So, the chambers of the boyars Troyekurovs ended up in the courtyard of the complex of buildings of the State Duma protected by the FSO, the mansion of Varvara Morozova was adapted for the House of Receptions of the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Petrovsky Passage Palace - for the House of Receptions of the capital city hall with a deluxe hotel. In the Prechistenka area, for example, it would be possible to create a whole museum town of Art Nouveau mansions, but 91 monuments here are occupied by diplomatic missions, which, of course, do not even think of letting in architecture lovers and local historians.
