In recent days, bloggers have been enthusiastically discussing the failure of a high-profile town-planning project to relocate state officials to the territory of "New Moscow". According to a source in the Izvestia newspaper, the Kremlin decided that such a move "would not bring any economic effect" and would not relieve Moscow from traffic jams. Instead, the feds will be resettled closer to the Kremlin - recently, the president instructed the department managers to work out the option of creating such a government quarter in the center. Experts name the territory of the former hotel "Russia" and Poklonnaya Gora as possible sites. “Everything is clear here - we just couldn't. It turned out to be too difficult, - writes Alexey Orel in the comments to the article on the Gazeta.ru portal. - After all, all issues so far in Russia have been resolved simply by pumping in the maximum amount of money without attention to efficiency. In the case of a move, the maximum amount of money would seem too much. And they forgot to think about efficiency for too long, forgot how to do it. It is not clear how to distribute traffic flows, how to get to the airport later, etc. " “I hope that the insanity of the idea of building an anti-Moscow at the Kommunarka state farm will be realized before billions are spent,” complains tryapitchkin. However, the project has already managed to harm, in particular, the Moscow Region Troitsk, says ziggy_from_mars: "Why was it necessary to destroy the administrative department of Troitsk and nearby villages, drive the traffic police out of there, raise utility bills and other tariffs, jam Kaluzhka with traffic jams?"
Discussions on this topic also unfolded in the comments on the portals ridus.ru, Rambler novosti, and the newspaper Kommersant: “The Moscow expansion project is a mediocre decision or, more simply, a gamble,” believes Misha Petrov, “the budget should work for the development of the entire country, its regions / … /, and Moscow should not continue to be spoiled by the expansion and increase of people, it should be reduced to 5-6 million. “Now we have at least honestly explained who will go to New Moscow,” Stanislavovich remarks. Izvestia clarifies that in the coming years, students will be transported outside the Moscow Ring Road: educational campuses will be built for five large capital universities in new territories. “Of course, students are to blame for traffic jams, who in the majority use public transport,” Natalya Ivanova ironically comments on the article. And blogger Dedegor notes that experts predicted similar things at the very beginning of the project: “The first mentions of Big (new) Moscow were associated with the need to remove the authorities from the overcrowded center, but even then skeptics said that Power would remain, and settlers would go to settlements from a dilapidated fund, pensioners, residents of demolished panels, here are students too”.
Another reason for the urban planning discussion was given by the interview of the chief architect of Moscow, Sergei Kuznetsov, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". Most of the participants in the dispute were offended by his statements that there is an acute shortage of housing in the center, despite the fact that up to 90% of jobs are located here. According to Kuznetsov, it is necessary that a person living on Tverskaya could work in the same area, and “living in Khimki - work in Khimki”. From the first part of this statement, the readers made a conclusion about the impending development of the center, the second did not believe at all. “An excuse to start the ugly development again,” Dmitry Pletnev writes in the comments. - There is no place, roads, parks, squares, plan, and not a new building. " - "Only the abnormal would prefer to live in the center of office buildings and sleep under the endless roar of cars!" - considers succub7 mystery. “What is being proposed was in Moscow before the construction of the metro,” recalls Pyotr Solodkov."This is called a" working district ", when residential quarters were built around production, it is banal because it was impossible to get from another district to work on time." - "What is this - to build together houses next to enterprises, next to pipes?" - finan2010 is indignant.
An alternative program to the chief architect is offered by a user under the nickname "asurin crazy special forces": "You can make Moscow like flaky bacon … a layer of housing, a layer of jobs, a layer of housing more lighter, a layer of jobs more poorer … closer to the center, the financial and administrative elite (officials during their service, like the White House to Obama) … everything in the center to refurbish and remodel surplus restaurants, nauseous cheap shops, and the like. for private housing to the elite … evict everyone and prohibit renting out premises for offices in the center."
In the blog of Ilya Varlamov, meanwhile, users discussed the quality of the current architectural environment. The author suggested comparing the Soviet and modern bus stops - “Friends, tell me what happened to our architecture? Where is the former grace and attention to detail? / … / Look at these crookedly welded, rusty structures, at two iron benches for the whole stop … "In response, ribaksuty proposes to involve professional designers in the creation of an urban environment:" It is possible, at the level of the law, to attach a chief designer to each district, who will not obey the government, and the chief architect. He will collect the wishes of people, follow the announcements, signs. " - “What kind of quality will there be if the wages are piecework, and the sooner I did, the more I earned?” - coronel85 is surprised. And zoltan0 generally believes that there have always been few high-quality buildings, just "next to VDNKh there was a showy Soviet one-of-a-kind stop like this."
Readers of "Afisha" argued about the preservation of the environment of historical and, in particular, literary places of the capital, which published a project for the reconstruction of the Bulgakov Museum on Bolshaya Sadovaya. Recall that according to the idea of the Italian studio Gabriele Filippini, the museum exposition extends far beyond the famous apartment number 50 and includes a pavilion for temporary exhibitions in a nearby park and a floating theater on Patriarch's Ponds. - “Floating theater on the pond? An excellent way to kill the atmosphere completely, even more reliable than cast-iron foxes, - outraged in the comments to the article Masha Kirikova. “Now there are at least linden trees in place, fences and benches, but there will be a continuous performance, video art, installations and in general the devil knows what”. “All this projection stuff is the crap of recognizing innovation and wanting to jump into the unknown,” agrees DJart. According to the user, such an “unobtrusive pavilion is very beautiful, but it requires constant subsidies. For example, they do such things very well in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure - ottomans for reading, but the sponsorship there is simply gigantic. " Instead of the theater, DJart proposes to take advantage of the Parisian experience of the early 20th century and build on the ponds a large coffee-terrace with an atmosphere in which a “real live discourse” about Bulgakov could be born: “A very large - really large veranda with very cheap and very good coffee so that people come to read poetry, argue about "installations" or play French music, will bring together more people."
“You probably do not really understand what will happen,” Mikhail Korobko addresses the authors of the floating theater, “in the Presnya area you will have to go through the procedure of public hearings and, let's be realistic, you will not go through it! The preference will be given to swans with their houses on the pond, and not to the theater, i.e. the inhabitants will not give you anything there, except to lead excursions, which they already lead! Therefore, this element of the concept is pure manilovism! " And the author of the blog prosto-serge noticed a funny oversight in the project: “Everything would be fine, but the image on the far right in the foliage has nothing to do with Mikhail Bulgakov. It depicts the philosopher Sergei Bulgakov / … /. It somehow embarrasses me that the competition was won by a company that has this attitude towards the project."
Meanwhile, bloggers from St. Petersburg got involved in the discussion of the recently announced development projects for two "pilot" neighborhoods as part of a large-scale reconstruction of the city center. The contestants did not like the ideas: “As I understand it, this is not a competition, but the fantasies of LISS students who came to study from different regions of our Motherland and are eager to prove themselves in St. Petersburg,” horiev writes in the comments on the Gorod 812 portal. - Look at the "Moscow City", dear architects, leave our city alone … ". Slaer VO is also not satisfied with the quality of the projects: “Continuous pedestrian zones! This is the easiest option. How to get there? How will those who live there live? Do you really need so many pedestrian zones? Maybe just start repairing houses, sidewalks, roads, finally, look at the facades of buildings and remove ugly advertisements and signs from them, finally put things in order with parking … ". But according to titikaka, the renovation of the center is vital: “There are not enough parking lots, roads, and the center needs repairs, etc. And everything costs a lot of money, which is not there. And if you don't touch the city, it will die."
At the same time, in the Fontanka blog, readers tried to explain the next fire in the Utkina Dacha estate. The monument has been running for many years and every time homeless people are called guilty of arson, however, the participants in the discussion have a different version: “Yes, everything is clear. The verdict for the object has already been signed, and, apparently, there is an "investor", since all the cries of "saved" and so on end only with another arson, "says chisto812. "And you do not exclude that Smolny not only thought, but acted, and you can blame the homeless on anything?" - suggests yourig. “A series of arson attacks will make this 'monument' just a hill, on which there is nothing to restore, not for a billion, not for two,” predicts AlexB. “As a result, when everything“by itself”collapses, the estate, so be it, will be sold to an investor who, for some reason, will take part in the competition alone. The remaining 40 will not be admitted, because they put commas in the wrong place in the application or did not put quotation marks in the phrase of Utkin Dacha. " However, maybe the estate still has a chance, suggests the reader under the nickname passed, “compared to Dacha Benois or Lanskaya dacha - a lot hasn't burned yet!”
Alas, on October 18, the last of the surviving suburban stations in Russia, the Ilyinskoye Usovskaya railway line, lost such a chance. how
According to the Arhnadzor website, the station did not have the status of a heritage site, although the activists were preparing it for protection, and at the direction of Russian Railways, a unique wooden building was turned into a pile of logs in one day. “I am afraid that the Pokrovskoe-Streshnevsky railway station, also built in the 19th century, will face such a fate,” notes Olga in the comments to the article. “It, too, used to be considered a dacha station, but now what is left of it stands on the outskirts of a platform with boarded up windows.” But according to Natalia Samover, this ensemble, fortunately, has a conservation status of regional significance, however, “what is happening to it now is also destruction, only slow,” notes the coordinator of Arkhnadzor. “There is hardly a quarter of the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo station left - only a brick part of it,” complains Yuri Yegorov. - The other three quarters of the building were wooden, only the bases of the columns survived from them. And, by the way, quite recently, a couple of years ago, some would-be railroad workers covered the majolica with paint in the upper part of the building. " Meanwhile, the blog "Arkhnadzor" warns of repair work at two more stations, this time federal monuments - Leningrad and Kazan. On the first, according to the activists, they began to knock down the marble decor, on the second - to build a shopping center right in front of the platforms.
At the end of our review - let's join the congratulations of Arkhnadzor: October 21 marks the 80th anniversary of Arkady Rostislavovich Nebolsin, art critic, cultural scientist, religious philosopher, professor of many universities and president of the International Society for the Salvation of Russian Monuments and Landscapes, a well-known defender of the cultural heritage of Russia and the Russian Diaspora.
