The past week presented bloggers with several interesting architectural objects for discussion. A house designed by Zakha Hadid herself for Vladislav Doronin, the head of Capital Group, has been built in Barvikha, near Moscow. Zaha designed the "Picturesque Tower" tower in the City for Capital Group, but the tower could not be built, but the head of the company’s own house was finished and this is the first Hadid building in Russia. On The Village portal, the house caused not only an extensive, but, as often happens, an emotional discussion: does the house look like a spaceport or an airport control room, does it fit well into the landscape, and also does Doronin have a taste.
One of these days, another architectural experiment aroused the interest of network users - the "narrowest house in the world" inaugurated in Warsaw. Its width ranges from 92 to 152 cm, which, however, does not prevent the house from having all the necessary technical communications. The house is named after the Israeli-Polish writer Etgar Keret, who will become its first inhabitant, says av0482.livejournal.com. Alexander Minakov, who published a TV commercial with a story about this house in his magazine, he reminded him of a “multi-level hut” or “capsule hostel”. And according to luvida, the Warsaw house is a well-forgotten Soviet old, when “apartments were built between two adjacent houses, starting from the second floor. They were called "seals".
In the blog of Aleksandr Minakov we also find interesting material on the modern development of Berlin. As the author writes, "in the last 15 years, in connection with the transfer of the capital here, so many high-quality modern buildings have been built that have not been erected in any other city in the world." Berlin is of interest to urbanists also because for 30 years it lived as two autonomous parts and even after reunification, it still has two centers.
Meanwhile, Moscow is celebrating two years since the arrival of a new team led by Sergei Sobyanin to the mayor's office. Blogger Ilya Varlamov dedicated a poll to this date, in which users appreciated the changes that have occurred in the capital during this time. It is curious that a larger percentage of respondents (12.5%) noted the disappearance of advertising banners and advertisements on the facades in the center as a positive achievement. About as many people like the renovated Gorky Park and Sokolniki. 9.8% voted for the demolition of shells and stalls near the metro and, surprisingly, 8% welcomed the paid parking offered by Sobyanin in the center of Moscow. Ilya Varlamov himself would add to these results “a normal bicycle infrastructure with parking, tracks and rental. And, of course, there are more pedestrian zones in the center and trees on Tverskaya. " However, the majority of the participants in the discussion are not enthusiastic about the innovations of the capital's mayor's office - daro, for example, assesses the undertakings "as good, but the embodiment suffers in most cases!" sdanilov recalls that "during the" reconstruction "of the Kuznetsky Most, the area of the historical paving stones was halved, which is akin to Luzhkov's" restoration "." And gde_kefir notes that Moscow, despite any reconstruction, is still considered “almost the greenest metropolis in the world /… /. The total area of the parks is about a third of the area of the city”. “At the same time, in terms of the quality of the urban environment for human life, it is below 70th place in a hundred,” adds dreamer331.
Last week, Muscovites were presented with a new scheme for the development of the subway, taking into account the newly adjoined territories. As the Kommersant newspaper explains, instead of a “third interchange circuit”, four giant expressways will be laid across Moscow, going beyond the boundaries of the Moscow Ring Road. Network readers of the newspaper reacted with disbelief to the idea, believing that chords are convenient only for transit passengers, while for the majority using interchange stations, it will turn into a complete disaster. “Chordal directions are deeply secondary and can even now be solved with one change in any direction,” says lepestriny. - But the rejection of the second ring increases the number of transplants when moving between districts and less effectively relieves the central interchange hub. /… / On the other hand, due to the inconvenience for Muscovites, the metro will be extended to still unpopulated areas, increasing their investment attractiveness”.
According to Alejandro Kravchenko, "it would be more expedient to build high-speed tramways outside the Moscow Ring Road and increase the number of electric trains." “The ring is much more needed than inefficient chords, it seems that the metro designers want to repeat all the mistakes they made in the design of highways,” kvazimorda36 joins in and adds about the long-overdue need to “lay the metro to the airports”.
The metro was also indirectly touched upon by the participants in the discussion on the Facebook page of the Project Russia magazine, dedicated to correcting erroneous architectural decisions of recent years. “First you need to clean up the Augean stables near the metro stations,” advises Dmitry Lykov. “The main thing is that instead of some stables, they do not build larger-scale ones, for the Trojan horses,” Konstantin Kenberg replies. To prevent the latter from happening, according to the same Dmitry Lykov, "it is necessary to create a historical-architectural-socio-political institution, which should draw up a single project of the future capital." But Ruben Grigoryan believes that in order to correct mistakes, there should be an “improvement” dictate from above /… /. Minsk is a great example. " Boris Krutik agrees with this: "Questions of architecture are, first of all, questions of jurisdiction and the state, which have nothing to do with public opinion and journalistic polemics." However, some architects are still counting on their own initiative: “We need to start with a simple one. For example, the courtyard of a residential building, - writes Alexey Afonichkin. - Invite architects, arrange public hearings on this particular place…. Architects work for free and gain fame, residents implement - they get what they like."
Something like this is operating today in Holland, where, according to The Village portal, “public spaces emerge as a kind of art project without much sponsorship. And at the right time they are joined by the city government or patrons. " For details, the portal turned to the artist and architect Ian Konings, whose ideas, however, did not find a response among network readers, who unexpectedly amicably leaned towards the classics. "Probably, very soon they will realize that boxes are boring, and their similarity will depress people fiercely, which will push them back to the classics." - Alexander Fedorov is sure. "Classics is the only architectural style so far that makes a comfortable, heterogeneous environment out of the city," agrees Timur Aktayev. "The newest architecture (high-tech, deconstructivism, bionics, etc.) is too heterogeneous, it can only parasitize on the classical appearance of the city, but not create the urban landscape." However, according to the same author, Holland is one of the few countries where "modernism is well planted." But, of course, this does not apply to us, so it is not worth adopting, the participants in the discussion believe.
On the Pro Rus page, the architect Rustam Kerimov complains that his project of the educational building of the Financial Academy of the Russian Federation on Leningradsky Prospect lost the planned facade materials by the decision of a certain "functionary from a construction organization": only 10,000 rubles / sq. save on everything. " The architect asks for advice in the struggle for the correct facade. They advised: write a letter to the chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov, contact the SRO and the former president of the SMA, Viktor Logvinov.
Since the beginning of October, the attention of city defenders of St. Petersburg has been riveted to the Varshavsky railway station: the territory, on which, in addition to railways, there are historical buildings and structures, according to the information of Zhivoy Gorod, will soon be cleared for new development. In the blog of the movement, there is a discussion about how it is possible to preserve the valuable objects of the station that are not under the protection of the KGIOP. “It would be possible to make such tourist projects both on Triangle and on Varshavskoye - with museums, galleries, workshops, an operating railway with old steam locomotives, etc.,” writes alert_dog. Baranov Bardem on the Vkontakte discussion page offers his own version: “I have an idea for a pedestrian alley on the site of the old railway. Historic buildings can house shops and restaurants. In the building of the depot to place a museum of railway technology /… /. It is possible to build business centers, housing on empty places … ". However, everything is not so simple, says Dmitry Sukhin: "Even with New Holland, and where buildings are more valuable and more beautiful, not to mention a more convenient location, it has not been possible to find a worthy new application for many years now." There are many reasons and one of them, paradoxically, is the law on monuments, which, according to the blogger, “it is the reconstruction that prohibits /… /. That is why for "normal" reuse according to the Western European model it is necessary (I insist!) To bypass it. And who is not resourceful enough for this - decides the issue through bringing to demolition."
