The event was held on a grand scale: they were treated to single malt Macallan whiskey, candles were burning on the tables, the girls were in cocktail dresses, awards were presented by well-known personalities of show business. And outside the window at that time a thunderstorm was raging and tanks were marching along Tverskaya (rehearsal?). Such a darkly romantic environment was the main theme of jokes from the stage. In general, a feast during the plague.
Having tickled the pride of those present with an abundance of "stars", the organizers returned them from heaven to earth - in addition to a wooden prize and a diploma, each winner received a bird feeder painted by the pupils of the orphanage. Well, if at least one feeder owner remembers about orphans and does something useful for them, then this is no longer vulgarity. In general, a plague during a feast.
Before getting acquainted with the winning villages, it is worth recalling that this is not an architectural award, but a developer's one, and the expressiveness of architectural solutions was not in the first place when evaluating projects. The main thing was the ratio of price and: quality of services offered, degree of infrastructure development, remoteness from the city, etc. But all the same it was striking that during the presentation of projects, even in the nominations "The best project of the village" and "The best architectural concept" (!), The architects were not named (not only by name, but also in bulk - as part of architectural workshops). And only one person - Andrei Vasiliev, General Director of Zagorodny Proekt company - receiving the award for innovation, thanked the architects who had a hand in this by 80%. And so one might think that the cottages spontaneously grow out of the soil fertilized with investments.
Such neglect of work has become the norm in the world of realtors,”said Alexei Ivanov, a multiple jury member of the Village of the Year, a designer of cottage settlements and a winner of many competitions, architect Alexei Ivanov from the stage (head of the Archstroydesign ASD workshop). He stood up for all anonymous authors forgotten after use. He even suggested to the organizers of the competition - the portal Cottage.ru - to introduce a new nomination "Architect of the Year" next year.
As Alexei Ivanov told the portal Archi.ru, he did not see anyone from the architects in the jury except himself. At the same time, every time he is convinced that "the projects are being evaluated fairly objectively." Groups of experts go to the site and check the declared parameters - the availability of infrastructure, the state of communications, the distance from the city … Previously, the selection criteria were established - for example, the correspondence between the construction cost and the category of the object. But this year the screening was more subjective - according to the principle "like it or not like it." According to Aleksey, no breakthroughs have happened this year, but on the other hand, "the average taste in the hospital" is gradually being developed. And, unlike political elections, here no one pressed the jury members and asked them to vote for a specific candidate. This is where the bulwark of democracy emerged.
So, get acquainted. The Village of the Year 2012 awards were awarded to:
Captain Club (TBN) is the best economy-class settlement in Moscow.
In fact, Captain Club (Simferopol highway) is not a separate village, but a complex of 6 cottage settlements: Captain Land, Captain's Bay, Captain's Cape, Captain's Daughter, Novikovo, Rozhdestveno.
Rozhdestveno (YIT) is the best business-class settlement in Moscow.
Here in the image of houses there is something southern, Mediterranean - a slight slope of roofs, wide balconies with forged railing, facing of facades with sawn stone or ceramics.
Madison Park (Villagio Estate) is the best elite-class settlement in Moscow.
The village is good because there is a forest nearby and a reservoir. Some lucky ones will have "private" access to nature, for others there will be a boulevard in the center of the settlement. Building - Variations on Wright's Theme.
Sukhanovo Park (Sukhanovo Estate) - the best village with townhouses in Moscow, Grand Prix.
Another place where they unsuccessfully try to go back to the past and instill in clients a sense of self-importance with the help of classic architecture.
Light House (Penny Lane Realty) is the best project in the village.
The settlement is planned to be built up with stylish architecture, but this is known only from the words of the developers - so far, little has been seen, except for a couple of 3D pictures.
Maly Petersburg (UK Maly Petersburg) is the best economy-class settlement in Saint Petersburg.
If you cannot live in the center of the present, Big Petersburg, then go to "Small Petersburg" - where the names of the streets coincide with the names of the most famous streets of St. Petersburg. According to marketers, such an advertising move should attract all those offended who did not get a piece of Big Peter.
Ollila (BTK) is the best business-class settlement in St. Petersburg.
The desire to compact buildings and collect more square meters of living space per hectare led to the fact that in the resort area on the coast of the Gulf of Finland appeared not chalets, scattered imperceptibly among the pine trees, but a low-rise town packed with townhouses.
Honka Family Club (HONKA) is the winner of three nominations: the best elite-class village in St. Petersburg, the best village with wooden houses, the best architectural concept.
One of the advantages of the village is that the houses are neatly inscribed in the forest - not a single tree was damaged during the construction.
"German Village" ("Europe") - the best regional cottage community.
This Krasnodar village has almost all housing options - five-story houses, duplexes, cottages. Only high-rise buildings are missing. Such "omnivorousness" can be justified only by the fact that the buildings are located within the city limits.
Kamenka's estate (Volzhskaya Usadba LLC) is the best regional cottage village with duplexes and townhouses.
Externally, duplexes and townhouses in Kamenka Estate look like very affordable housing, which is confirmed by the quite affordable cost per square meter - 4400-3100 rubles.
Pestovo LIFE (OPIN) is the best settlement with land plots without a contract.
PESTOVO life offers plots near the Pestovskoye reservoir, for the development of which you can use the projects of cottages created by Igor Shashkov, the chief architect of the OPIN workshop.
Zapadnaya Dolina (Country Project) - the best multi-format settlement, the Innovation of the Year award.
The suburb "Zapadnaya Dolina" is famous for the fact that the projects of cottages and townhouses in it were developed by famous architectural workshops headed by Totan Kuzembaev, Yuliy Borisov, Vadim Grekov and Andris Trushinsh.
"Novoe Stupino" (MR Group) - the best concept of infrastructure and improvement.
Novoe Stupino is positioned as the first eco-city in Russia, a satellite of Moscow. The residential area development plan is a combination of areas with apartment buildings and private houses.
In addition, the company Sukhanovo Estate singled out and awarded the Pavlovo settlement (OPIN) as the best settlement for living with children. And the village "Novorizhskie Ozera" of the development group INTEGRA was awarded the Ecovillage certificate.
