A scandal is brewing around the projected building of the Perm Art Gallery. The local architectural community in a letter to the regional governor Viktor Basargin complained about the project of the Swiss Peter Zumthor, which he is developing alone, while the authors of the appeal would like to participate in making and discussing decisions. The construction of such a building, in their opinion, is "practically impossible and extremely expensive." Responding to criticism, Viktor Basargin noted in his blog that he is grateful to Peter Zumtor for meeting the authorities halfway and agreeing to implement his plans "taking into account the financial capabilities of the region." In the meantime, the townspeople also expressed complaints about the project, for example, the blog of the Perm human rights activist Denis Galitsky notes that a long building along the edge of the Kama bank will block one of the best views of the river from the beginning of Komsomolsky Prospekt and Cathedral Square. Users are discussing why the project has never been presented to a public examination, where the Zumtor “ship” can be moved to save the panorama, and whether it’s time to start collecting signatures for canceling the project. However, Denis Galitsky believes that "the idea is so delusional that, I hope, it will die without collecting signatures."
In turn, Muscovites will have to say goodbye to the usual "postcard" view of the Moskva River from Vorobyovy Gory: the Moscow construction department said that during the reconstruction of Luzhniki for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, they would probably sacrifice the Big Sports Arena. which in its current form does not meet the requirements of FIFA. Bloggers are unanimously confident that the demolition will result not only in a historical loss, but also in another long-term construction, like the St. Petersburg Zenit stadium. In any case, so far, as the readers of Rambler novostei note, the city authorities have become famous more for the demolition of the Dynamo stadium than for the construction of new ones - the promised CSKA and Spartak, which have not yet been opened.
The Zenit stadium was also recalled by the participants in the discussion of the latest news about the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg. The newspaper "Kommersant" learned that the city authorities, in an atmosphere of strict secrecy, approved the project for the planning of the territory. Online readers of the publication are already talking about the appearance of another "black hole" in the budget, as in the case of "Zenith", and pity the future employees of the Gazprom skyscraper, who will have to work in the "milky cloud" outside the windows for almost ten months a year.
The revolutionary method of construction was discussed the other day in the "Architects and Architecture" community on VKontakte. They talked about the construction of buildings using a 3D printer, with the help of which today only layouts are created so far. As the authors of the idea explain, the method will make it possible to do without formwork and significantly save time - all that remains is to pour special concrete. The group members were stunned by the 3D printer, but it seemed too fantastic. Many thought that the houses were "made of slurry", that is, without reinforcement are impossible, and the declared high accuracy of construction can produce the most unpredictable result when the starting point of the "printing press" is set crookedly.
The construction of new metropolitan highways, the reconstruction of parks and courtyards were discussed with the chief architect of Moscow, Sergei Kuznetsov, by visitors to the Cities for People exhibition, which we wrote about last time. On the website of the newspaper "Moscow News" network users joined the discussion. They may have lacked the living presence of the chief architect, but many of his statements were interpreted rather radically and even sowed some panic. For example, the words that the city is “not a place for raising wild animals and rare insects” and that park areas are more appropriate here than forest areas were regarded as a desire to build up the remaining green areas.
Meanwhile, Sergei Kuznetsov himself is rather in favor of streamlining the development: for example, speaking about the upcoming expansion of outbound routes, he notes that it would be more correct to develop a “network of small capillaries”.
The russos blog discussed the architectural design of the new Moscow metro station "Brateevo", which is promised to open in mid-December. The network audience liked the avant-garde appearance of the underground hall with 11-meter parabolic arcs, which cannot be said about the second name of the station - Alma-Atinskaya. True, which of the two will be left is still unknown.
The same blog recently published a detailed report on the current reconstruction of Moscow railway stations. The network audience finds out the purpose of the brick "remake" in Kazanskoye and praises the new illumination of Leningradskoye. The historical value of the buildings, meanwhile, is far from worried about many, although among the bloggers there were also those who considered it appropriate to leave the stations not only the original decoration, but also the functions: for example, not to turn the richly decorated restaurant hall of the Kazan station into a "hall for VIPs" and find a more suitable place for the stalls than a new brick building right on the transverse platform.
And the blogger alex-avr2 devoted his large research to the Moscow pre-revolutionary water pipelines - Mytishchi and Moskvoretsky. The author of the blog personally searched for and examined the surviving brick galleries, discovering that some of their sites are from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. used to this day.
