RIA Novosti published an interview with Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction. The conversation was primarily devoted to solving the transport problems of the capital: the deputy mayor substantiated the advantage of increasing the capacity of existing roads by expanding them over the construction of new expensive highways, explained why the city needed north-western and north-eastern expressways and promised that soon In time, new dedicated lanes for public transport will appear, and projects for the development of the metro will be completed on time - by 2020. Reconstruction is also awaiting the interchange of the Moscow Ring Road.
Marat Khusnullin also said that reconstruction of old quarters and redevelopment of industrial zones are planned within the Moscow Ring Road. In particular, a decision has already been made to develop the Verkhniye Kotly industrial zone near the Nagatinskaya metro station and the territory of the Big City, the development of which will go towards the Moskva River and up to the Moscow Ring Road. In addition, Marat Khusnullin named the points of development of new territories of the capital agreed with the leadership of the Moscow region: today they are Molzhaninovo, Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye, Skolkovo, Vnukovo Airport with all adjacent territories, Nekrasovka, Troitsk, Ostafyevo airport and Kommunarka.
The fate of the latter is discussed on the pages NEWSru.com. Let's remind that earlier Kommunarka was chosen as the main construction site for the Federal Center. But the move of officials to new metropolitan areas was canceled. The source reports that the same Marat Khusnullin at the MREF-2012 forum promised that the territory of Kommunarka would develop regardless of the project of the parliamentary center. Now, for example, the settlement is considered as a site for an administrative and business center.
RBC daily introduces its readers to the program of creating 255 transport interchange hubs (TPU) in Moscow. Investors are encouraged to develop territories near metro and railway stations. It has already been planned that 162 nodes will turn into capital multifunctional complexes. And Nikolay Shumakov, chief architect of the Metrogiprotrans institute, spoke about a new scheme for the development of the Moscow metro. “It was decided to abandon the construction of a“third interchange loop”,” Kommersant quotes Shumakov. “Instead, it is planned to lay four giant chord lines through the entire city, going beyond the Moscow Ring Road, with the help of which it will be possible to get directly from Khimki to Nekrasovka, and from Trekhgorka to Kashirskaya or to the Vidnoye region.
A few days ago, the VIII Congress of the Union of Architects was held in Moscow, during which the professional community discussed the problems of modern architecture - from educational to economic and political, for example, Russia's accession to the WTO. Following the results of the voting held there, Andrei Bokov was re-elected to the post of President of the Union of Architects of Russia. You can read more about this in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
And "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" reports the details of the planned restoration of the Shukhov Tower on Shabolovka. The tower will be disassembled into thousands of component parts, cleaned of rust and reassembled, after which it will be covered with a glass cover and an elevator will be launched upstairs.
The Village portal writes about the future of Gorky Park. The British studio LDA Design, which is working on the concept of the park's development, spoke about how it plans to change the appearance of embankments and parking lots. According to the British project, the embankment will become the main center of attraction for the park: in particular, there will be permanent river tram routes. The lack of parking is proposed to be solved not by radical methods of large-scale construction of underground parking lots (although this option is also being considered), but by searching for an alternative to the car. “There is green transport, bicycles, public transport, you can finally come on foot,” says one of the project's architects, Andrew Harland.
Grigory Revzin reflects on the park in Zaryadye "which most likely will never be" on the pages of Ogonyok. Earlier, the chief architect of the city, Sergei Kuznetsov, promised that the construction plan in Zaryadye would be prepared by 2013, but even the most distant details of the project remain unclear. The idea of locating a park there is becoming less and less likely, but what can replace it? The answer to this question is what Revzin is looking for.
Izvestia writes about another park, the Rossiya park in the Domodedovo urban district. The project of the landscape and recreational complex "Russia" is a country in miniature, something like a model, which will occupy an area from 300 to 1 thousand hectares. Recently, the Russian government approved a list of infrastructure facilities for the park (mainly roads and engineering infrastructure), most of which should be built at the expense of the budget of the Moscow region, and the department, in turn, admitted that they did not have money for the implementation of the grandiose project.
Petersburg media are discussing the decision of the administration to abandon Valentina Matvienko's program to withdraw large enterprises outside the city. The head of the department, Yulia Kiseleva, explained to the representatives of Fontanka.ru that one of the main tasks of officials today is to adjust the development plans of St. Petersburg. Changes made to its Master Plan are aimed at maintaining the balance of residential and industrial areas.
Among the most notable cultural news of St. Petersburg is the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the work of Harald Bosse. Novye Izvestia informs that in honor of the bicentennial of the outstanding architect, the Museum of the Academy of Arts presented a detailed exposition of his works - architectural graphics, drawings, watercolors.
The three hundredth birthday this week was celebrated by the estate of the counts Sheremetevs - the Fountain House in St. Petersburg. According to "St. Petersburg vedomosti", the palace fence was restored by the anniversary, restoration work is underway on the facades. The restoration is planned to be completed before the New Year holidays.
And in Moscow, the restoration of the famous Ostankino estate is just being planned. On Tuesday, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, told the RIA Novosti correspondent that the work will begin this year and will take no more than three years.
