Natalya Samover, coordinator of the Arkhnadzor public movement, spoke specifically for LiveJournal.ru about the reconstruction of Detsky Mir. She writes that the real historical building no longer exists, and now the memory of it is also being destroyed - the object being created has been renamed the Central Children's Store on Lubyanka. So it's worth talking not about legacy, but about business, the profitability of which raises big questions, Samover believes. The establishment of rental rates twice lower than market rates speaks volumes, and the developer himself admitted that he was unable to fill all the areas of the facility with children's goods, so the idea came up to place a children's cinema and clubs on the upper floors of the building. “The bottom line is shame, irreversibly damaged reputation and a bleak prospect of joining the club of owners of stranded retail real estate in the center of the richest city of Moscow,” concludes Natalya Samover.
And the chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch of VOOPIIK Oleg Bukin writes about the reconstruction of the historical and cultural monument of the Shumkov estate in Yekaterinburg. He considers the work illegal, and in his appeal to the prosecutor's office demands to stop them. The reconstruction project involves the construction of a new volume on the side of the southern facade of the monument, as well as the dismantling of the annex from the 1940s. These actions, according to Oleg Bukin, do not comply with the law, since any construction is prohibited on the territory of the monument, and the late annex must be preserved, because it was built before the estate was put under protection.
fima-fr talks about classical-style decor for the modern building of the Wedding Palace in Omsk. Soon, stucco molding, pediment and other attributes of the favorite style of power will appear on it. It is symbolic that a poster of the ruling party is already hanging on the building itself.
The blog of the specialized group for the ecology of ordinary architecture (ERA) contains the text of an appeal drawn up by city rights activists of St. Petersburg and addressed to Governor Georgy Poltavchenko and Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Vyacheslav Makarov. Activists are demanding a revision of the legacy-destructive practice of handing over the resettled residential historic buildings to investors who are not interested in their reconstruction. To solve the problem of mass demolition and destruction of buildings, city defenders propose to resume the city program of comprehensive overhaul of historic residential buildings for further social settlement.
The archnest.com portal publishes the manifesto of the movement “For the Agglomeration of Moscow” (DZAgloMos). "In continuation of useless actions that do not change the situation in Russia," the movement proposes to bring Dmitry Medvedev's initiative to its logical end, namely: to declare the Kremlin the capital of the Russian Federation and expand it to the borders of modern Moscow, renaming the existing Moscow into the Kremlin, the Moscow region into a city Moscow, and Russia - to the Moscow region.
The blog "Architectural Heritage" on Wednesday reported the sudden death of the architect, urbanist, professor of the Moscow Architectural Institute, member of the Public Chamber Vyacheslav Glazychev, who died of a heart attack in Thailand. Until the last day, Vyacheslav Glazychev actively participated in the life of the country: he went to Thailand to calmly edit the development strategy of Moscow for the period up to 2025. Urbanists are remembered in their blogs by architects, critics, and those who were familiar with him. So, the architect Sergei Skuratov wrote: “Some kind of horror! There is almost emptiness around! " Architectural critic Elena Gonzalez says: "Glazychev was the pinnacle, such as he is always a unit."Gallery owner Marat Gelman also recalls the architect in his blog: "Glory, Glory without you the world has become very stupid."
The blog "Architectural Heritage" tells about the Rostov village of Porechye, almost completely built up with two-storey stone peasant houses of the 18th - early 20th centuries, as well as about the sights of the Kaluga region and about the artistic casting and forging of Penza. In the blog "My Moscow" you can read about Staropansky lane on Kitay-gorod, which houses the ancient Kosmodamianskaya church and two buildings designed by Fyodor Shekhtel. Local historian Denis Romodin writes in his blog about the post office in Rome, built in the mid-1930s by the Italian architect Adalberto Libera.
