About the future of the profession, about the tasks of architectural education and about "a fundamentally different architecture, for which even a name is still difficult to give", the rector of the Moscow Architectural Institute Dmitry Shvidkovsky spoke with the correspondent of "Utro.ru" last week. According to the rector, “postmodernism of the 60-70s. killed architecture as art”, and today it is being reborn. He named Dubai, the western coast of the USA - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Japan and Germany, where "green" technologies in construction are actively promoted, as the epicenter of the development of architecture. As for Russian architecture, according to Shvidkovsky, it has every chance to successfully develop and compete with the West, having such “good architects as Grigoryan, Plotkin, Skuratov, Kuznetsov, Choban. This list can be continued for a very long time. " Vedomosti reported the news that everyone had been waiting for for a long time: the Moscow authorities have finally decided what exactly will appear on the territory of Zaryadye. According to the Moskomarkhitektura, it is planned to build a parking lot for 500 cars in the underground part, and it is likely that some public spaces will be formed there. There will still be a large park on top. Of the buildings - only a concert hall for philharmonic music. Given the unconditional correctness of the proposals, the idea of attracting an investor for the construction of only a concert hall and a park looks slightly dubious, the newspaper comments. Izvestia informs about a competition for the preparation of a project for planning the territory of the Yakimanka district between Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge and Serafimovich Street. At the Cities for People exhibition at the Museum of Architecture, Moscow's chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov answered numerous questions from Muscovites: what will happen to Khodynka? with squares in front of the Belorussky and Paveletsky railway stations? VDNKh and Vorobyovy Gory? Sergey Kuznetsov also shared with the townspeople his "super-idea", which he would like to implement as chief architect: "to make the space for a person evenly pleasant in the place where he lives." Questions and Answers are published by Moscow News. In St. Petersburg, talk about giving the city a conservation status does not subside. Governor Georgy Poltavchenko instructed to prepare an appeal to the Ministry of Culture on granting the entire territory of St. Petersburg the status of a historical settlement of federal significance. How this "threatens" the city, read the article of "Novaya Gazeta SPb".
According to various sources, the Moscow City Duma is preparing to move to Strastnoy Boulevard, to the building of the former Catherine's Hospital, which is an architectural monument. Izvestia writes about the move as a completely settled matter. “Gazeta.ru” quotes the statement of the head of the city property department Natalia Bocharova: “the question of what will be located in the hospital building - a state organization or a museum, will be decided upon completion of the restoration work”. And "Vesti-Moscow" reports that the Department of Cultural Heritage of the capital has not yet given official permission, and the officials themselves do not confirm the fact of the move.
Alexander Kolontai told Izvestia about the city's plans to organize three radial electric train routes in Moscow, which, according to him, could be a real competitor to the metro. And "Moskovskie Novosti" informs about the progress of construction of the north-western expressway with a length of about 30 km, which will run from Skolkovo to Yaroslavskoe highway. "Big City" published an interview with the director of the design museum Alexandra Sankova. Let us remind you that the museum is open in the Moscow "Manezh". The first exhibition is dedicated to Soviet design from the 1950-1980s. And in the future, according to Alexandra Sankova, the museum will feature an exhibition “Icons of Danish Design” and, possibly, an exposition “New Luxury” of iconic Dutch designers Groog.
Kommersant - St. Petersburg publishes the results of the competition for the best firewall design in St. Petersburg. Ten projects were recognized as the best, and all of them will be implemented next year. As a result, birds, columns, silhouettes of churches and a large icon will appear on the end walls of St. Petersburg buildings.
"Moscow News" tells about the exhibition "Knigostroy", which opened on November 25 in the Central House of Artists. Vedomosti also writes about it.
And opposite the Central House of Artists, in Gorky Park, a skating rink has already opened. Snowboarding areas and many other winter activities will soon appear there. Before the New Year, Grandfather Frost himself will come to the park from Veliky Ustyug. Olga Zakharova, director of the Central Park of Culture and Leisure, spoke about this in an interview with RIA Novosti. Demolish or rebuild? Such a discussion this week revolved around the constructivist neighborhoods built in the 1920s and 1930s. "Vesti-Moscow" quotes from the speeches of officials, historians and architects who advocate very polar points of view. According to Moscow Perspective, it was decided to preserve seven of the nine working quarters of the NEP era. Demolition threatens houses in the area of Rusakovskaya Street, as well as in Kolymazhny and Maly Znamensky lanes. The future of the Budenovskoye village is still vague, it will be determined by the residents themselves at public hearings.
"Arhnadzor" talks about the international exhibition for the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage DENKMAL-2012, which took place in Leipzig at the end of November. The Moscow stand, which was supposed to present the achievements of Russia in the field of reconstruction and restoration, according to Arhnadzor, showed the public examples of vandalism. For example, among the works presented there is a project for the reconstruction of the Moscow stadium "Dynamo", in the course of which the building was almost completely destroyed, and a project for the destruction of the interiors of the "Children's World".
