Most of the media recalls the architect, an expert in the field of urban development Vyacheslav Glazychev, who died of a heart attack on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The Afisha magazine tells about the books written and translated by Glazychev, including “City without Borders”, “Kevin Lynch. The image of the city”,“Filarete (Antonio Averlino). Treatise on Architecture”and others. The magazine also publishes the memoirs of friends and colleagues of the famous urbanist. Architect Yevgeny Ass says: “Slava was generally a polyphonic person, he talked about the world, and the city was one - the most important for him - element of this construction of the world. He understood very well the structure of life, felt it, his imagination was based on the reality of being, the reality of life. " Architect Yuri Grigoryan: “Vyacheslav Glazychev was engaged in a particularly important job: translation from the urban planning language into the human and bureaucratic language. At the same time, he kept his distance, without becoming a part of the power - a certain natural aristocracy that made him a real professor, to whom they listened. " Andrei Bokov, President of the Union of Architects of Russia: “Glazychev is a phenomenon, which, perhaps, is difficult to find today, neither in domestic nor in world culture. This is a man who … nevertheless tried to overcome this monstrous savagery of our world, to make our profession, our cities more civilized, more human, more meaningful. " Grigory Revzin writes about the activities of Vyacheslav Glazychev, his books and many other things on the pages of the Kommersant newspaper. In the end, he concludes: "Honestly, I no longer know such obscenely intelligent people who would believe that this mind should be used in order for people to live better."
At the beginning of the week, Hals-Development presented a new concept for Detsky Mir, developed by the architect Pavel Andreev from the Mosproekt-2 bureau. According to Sergei Kalinin, President of Hals-Development, the former concept of the department store has been redesigned by 90%. According to the new version, the investor intends to preserve the historical dimensions of the building, as well as the rectangular shape and pitch of the columns of the atrium. The seven-story atrium, which will turn into a city square under the dome, can be accessed from the Lubyanka, Rozhdestvenka and Okhotny Ryad. In addition, the concept involves the restoration of the balustrade and stucco moldings according to old drawings. The new project did not lead to a drastic reduction in the total area: 73 thousand square meters. m, laid down in the new concept, against 74 thousand square meters. m of the previous version. It is noteworthy that the changes affected not only the architecture of the building, but also its name: now it will be called the Central Children's Store in Lubyanka. The final project, the implementation of which is estimated at 8 billion rubles, will be ready in the fall.
The city authorities have positively assessed the new concept of Detsky Mir, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. So, the head of the Moscow City Heritage Site Alexander Kibovsky called this project the best in many respects and offered to discuss it in more detail. And the chief architect of Moscow, Alexander Kuzmin, liked the idea of turning the atrium into a venue for city events. But not everyone was happy with the new reconstruction option. Andrei Batalov, the deputy director of the Kremlin Museums, calls what is happening to Children's World a tragedy, he insists on the reconstruction of the lobbies, main staircases of the building and the roof of the atrium with farms at the height of the fourth floor, as it was originally. Natalya Samover, coordinator of the Arnadzor social movement, says: “The old Detsky Mir will never be here again. He is killed, destroyed completely, finally, forever. This must be realized. There is an empty shell, only facades”. And now it does not matter whether the new object will be similar to the previous "Children's World" or not, she said. In addition, Samover has doubts about the economic efficiency of the new shopping center. Architectural critic Grigory Revzin also believes that it will not be possible to fill a huge area with children's goods alone. He considers the invitation of the new architect Pavel Andreev, who previously worked on the restoration of the Manezh and GUM, to be positive news.
The Hals-Development company, having presented the concept of Detsky Mir, is also renewing the competition for design solutions for decorating the interior of the department store, RIA Novosti reports. The competition was announced three months ago, but only now the terms of reference have been announced based on the new concept. To date, more than 500 teams from Russia, the CIS countries, the Baltic states, as well as specialists from Europe, in particular from Italy and France, have applied for participation in the open competition. The jury of the competition will be headed by Pavel Andreev. The winners who take the first three places will receive from 50 thousand rubles to 200. The results of the competition are planned to be summed up in a month.
A new concept has also been prepared for the Museum of Moscow on Zubovsky Boulevard, Izvestia newspaper writes. The museum center is proposed to be created on the basis of "Provision shops", an architectural monument of federal significance. A platform for public events will be created in the courtyard of the monument, and the first and second floors of the buildings will be connected vertically and horizontally. According to the concept, the museum center will have open storage facilities and a navigation system. The collection of the museum is proposed to be divided into five sections according to thematic and chronological principles. At the first stage of work, which should be completed by the end of 2013, the restoration of the museum buildings will be carried out. The city is ready to allocate almost 190 million rubles for these works. It is planned to create a full-fledged museum complex by 2016. You can get acquainted with the concept of development of the Museum of Moscow on its website.
And in Arkhangelsk it is planned to open a whole "museum quarter", blocking several architectural monuments-museums with a single glass dome. The museum town will be located at the intersection of Pomorskaya Street, Severnaya Dvina Embankment and Teatralny Lane. As conceived by the authors of the project, a single museum space will be created in which the visitor can move from one museum to another without going outside.
Afisha magazine published two interviews this week. One - with the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the second - with the Russian architect Yuri Grigoryan. Speaking about the expansion of Moscow, Kengo Kuma said that the state should not control the expansion, but work on the character of the city, using cultural projects for this. He cited the example of France, where the authorities manage to create the identity of a place, combine culture and social obligations. Yuri Grigoryan talks about the competition for the development of the Moscow agglomeration and his concept. His team, together with the OMA bureau, received the highest score at the first stage of the competition. They proposed to develop airports as centers of attraction for people. Science towns, congress centers, and production facilities will be formed around them. And the territory of the "new" Moscow, according to their idea, should be left green.
Another participant of the competition, architect Andrei Chernikhov, also discusses the Moscow agglomeration. He says that by annexing a huge piece of land to Moscow, “the authorities simply tried to solve a local problem against the background of the depletion of the city's urban development potential. Moreover, they decided it proceeding not from the strategic development programs of Moscow and the region, but from the momentary considerations of the prevailing wild market”. As a result, the formula will be embodied: "business - excess profit, society - problems". It is wiser, according to the architect, to use industrial zones for development, of which there are 18 thousand hectares in Moscow.
Blogger Ilya Varlamov and deputy Maxim Katz launched the Urban Projects program, under which they invited the townspeople to raise funds for the development of infrastructure in Moscow's Shchukin and for the creation of a comfortable pedestrian zone on Tverskaya, reports The Village. They created Yandex. Wallet , where everyone can transfer money. It is planned that each project will be launched as soon as 100 thousand rubles are collected for it. The activists have already launched two small projects for which donations from citizens are not required: the installation of street ashtrays on Tverskaya and the first carnival in Moscow.
The Moscow News newspaper tells about three books of the creative heritage of Alexander Deineka, the last of which was published quite recently. The first volume of 2009 is called “Deineka. Graphics ", the second in 2010 -" Deineka. Painting "and the third -" Deineka. Monumental art. Sculpture". The completion of the project, which included a series of exhibitions around the world and the publication of three books, was marked by a performance in the Moscow metro at Mayakovskaya station, where the plafonds are decorated with mosaics by Alexander Deineka.
The exhibition "Eileen Gray: The Return" has opened in the St. Petersburg Design Gallery / bulthaup, according to the Kommersant newspaper. At the beginning of the 20th century, the architect and designer Eileen Gray designed furniture that was much ahead of its time and was subsequently replicated by many designers. In France, she designed two villas for herself, one of which was bought for himself by Le Corbusier, who highly regarded her as an architect. Another exhibition in St. Petersburg is dedicated to the regional Union of Architects. It presents the best works of St. Petersburg architects since 1920. The exhibition is being held at the Central Museum of Communications named after A. S. Popov.
And within the framework of the White Nights in Perm festival, an entire paper city of Kartonkamsk is being built, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. In it, architects will create their buildings, monuments and art objects. Also in Kartonkamsk you will be able to visit a free library, a lost property office, a sand animation studio, a theater district and a film strip cinema. Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
