In recent days, there has been a lot of blogging about modern architecture. For example, the architect Sergey Estrin dedicated a new post to one of his most unusual projects - the futuristic interior of a bachelor's apartment. Here, almost all objects - furniture, fireplace, bar - are created by bizarre waves of Korean and glass, and, as Estrin notes, it is impossible to repeat them, since "the German factory, the only one that agreed to build such a complex wave of glass, recently went bankrupt."
But the audience of the blog bizantinum.livejournal.com hardly likes architectural experiments, however, and the subject of discussion here arose much more traditional - modern temple architecture. Bloggers, however, do not deny that church building should have the right to change and change in accordance with the worldview and lifestyle of a modern person. - “But there must be some kind of justification, healthy conservatism, conciliarism of opinion, and not a dream or an architect’s kick,” the user orhidea777, for example, is sure. The author of the blog himself considers the emergence of "eclectic mutants" as a consequence of the fact that "the goal of temple builders now is not the glorification of Christ and the creation of a prayer atmosphere, but the personal ego of the artist." - “Western samples are very interesting and not talented as architectural works, but as sacred objects they are something with something,” notes morskoy_anemon. And blogger ar_chitect is sure that the crisis of church building, especially in Russia, is a consequence of the “sacralization of the secondary”, specific historical practices and technologies, behind which the meaning of the whole is lost: “The main thing is that the need for quality does not grow into a theological justification for the Orthodoxness of tiles and heretical linoleum”, - the user concludes.
We will continue this curious topic with a wonderful example of postmodern desacralization from Moscow residential architecture - the famous Patriarch house on the corner near Patriarch's Ponds, about which blogger misareg_msk recently wrote in the moscow_walks community. Where in today's churches "high-tech is combined with the sophrina", here is the "Moscow style" with yellow Empire-style walls, statues "similar to the stone heroes of labor of Stalin's skyscrapers", and Tatlin's tower at the top. “It contains audacity and a challenge to everything and everyone, the disclosure of this challenge through tradition and a new rethinking of the permanent eclecticism of the capital's architectural environment,” writes misareg_msk about the best, in his opinion, monument to the 1990s. But to his main opponent in the network dispute, the user lepestriny, it seems that the house is clearly not attracted to "eccentricity, which are elegant, like the houses ordered by Ryabushinsky or Morozov Shekhtel." Here, writes the blogger, "bad taste and servility, multiplied by the tyranny of the dubious nouveau riche."
By the way, it is very interesting about the architectural era of the 1990s - early 2000s, one of its main characters, ex chief architect Alexander Kuzmin, whose interview was recently discussed on the Internet, tells. And he tells, as users believe, quite honestly - rarely is an official in blogs without irony called a decent person.
Everything new is a well-forgotten old: the authors of yet another “architectural eccentricity” convinced the authors of another “architectural eccentricity” - the capsule hotel Sleepbox Hotel Tverskya, which is about to open in Moscow on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya. As they write in the community ru-architect.livejournal.com, the hotel consists of 50 so-called. slipboxes or modular rooms with a pretty cute design, though without amenities. Users of the site realt.onliner.by found that it was more convenient and cheaper to spend the night in a good old compartment car, and on ru-architect.livejournal.com they found the project ideologically outdated, perhaps because the "sleeping capsules" did not justify themselves already in 1920- e years.
There has been a lot of talk about urban planning this week. Thus, a lively discussion was caused by the issues raised at the architectural and construction forum of Siberia that took place on January 22 in Krasnoyarsk. Users of the dela.ru portal, for example, criticized Krasnoyarskgrazhdanproekt's plans to create a “city for pedestrians and cyclists” to the detriment of cars. Meanwhile, the RUPA community has compiled a list of top urban planners based on a Facebook survey. The list was headed by Mark Meerovich, Alexander Vysokovsky and Georgy Afanasyev. As the author of the experiment, Efim Freidin, writes, “the planning party is unambiguously diluted by specialists from Moscow State University (Vendina, Zubarevich), Muscovites - by experts from Russia (Meerovich, Lozhkin, Golovin, Perelygin, Petrovich, Beregovskikh, Malakhov, Stadnikov, Repin), there are conditional foreigners (Nilina, Goldhorn), conventional theorists and practitioners. Many leading institutions and public organizations in the sphere of urban planning are represented …”.
The blog chistoprudov at this time discussed the modern architecture of Astana. The ambitious capital of Kazakhstan reminded the author of the post "a stripped-down copy of Dubai" - tall, glowing skyscrapers against the backdrop of the desert. However, bloggers thought that several ultra-fashionable buildings, such as the Baiterek monument or the Khan Shatyr center, do not make Astana attractive for life: the streets nearby are deserted, most of the elite real estate is empty. “The city is very smartly designed and extremely tastelessly rebuilt, writes, for example, the user algol78.
And the inhabitants of Minsk continue to follow the plans of the city authorities for the reconstruction of the historical center. This time, the discussion was caused by the project of a pseudo-historical quarter with the creation of Novomyasnitskaya Street.
A wave of indignation swept across blogs in connection with another scandal in the Kizhi Museum-Reserve, where, by the will of the Minister of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, the head was recently replaced. The appointment of the ex-governor of the Republic of Karelia A. Nelidov to this position was perceived by the museum staff as a direct threat to the preservation of the unique ensemble. The official was reminded of the project for the development of tourism in Zaonezhie, "virtually destroying a World Heritage site." With an appeal not to give Kizhi for construction to businessmen, activists ask all who are not indifferent to put their signatures under the letter to the President of the Russian Federation.
And Arkhnadzor activists recently discovered ridiculous and blatant material on the Internet: the Moscow estate Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo, a federal monument now owned by the Higher School of Economics, is being used as an airsoft pavilion and scenery for immodest photo shoots. As Andrei Potapenko clarifies in the comments, it is obvious that the guards let everyone into the estate for a modest fee: “The former portrait painting is most of all painted with graffiti…. Today there are a lot of unclosed windows, drifts of snow on the floors, doors to a small balcony (towards the ponds) wide open …”.
