The bloggers' attention this week turned out to be a competition of architectural concepts for a new public and recreational complex on the square of Tverskaya Zastava. The day before it became clear that Project Meganom won, and a beautiful luminous "box" will grow between the lobby of the Paveletskaya metro station and the Belorussky railway station, as the project was called in blogs. Meanwhile, the network expected a more global urban planning solution from the competition itself and is now discouraged by the appearance of another shopping mall on the square. Irina Irbitskaya published a critical note on the entire current system of closed competitions in the RUPA community. In her opinion, creating a "good bank of form-making projects", competitions almost never reach the level of specific proposals for creating a "creative city", which architects love to talk about so much. Well, the main problem, according to the author, is the TK: architectural competitions, according to Irina Irbitskaya, can be held only after urban planning, the result of which is a "super TK", which reflects the socio-economic and territorial development program of the site, based on the balance of urban interests and the interests of the customer. Whose interests are reflected in the TK of the current competition, one can only guess, the author notes.
Yaroslav Kovalchuk writes in the comments that in terms of urban planning this area is “a complete disaster, with which they did not even try to do anything within the framework of the competition. Not at the TK level, not in the projects themselves. " According to the user, there cannot be a building of this size on this section at all, but a street parallel to Gruzinsky Val along the railway is needed: “It can start only between the metro and the train station. We also need perpendicular streets and several bridges across the railway. " Anton Chupilko, in turn, believes that nothing needs to be done with the square: “Take the area! There is still a hole from the 2nd Watch Factory + an interchange and a hole from the infrastructure of Russian Railways + Vetka to Savelovsky, which they wanted to close with a springboard + The territory of factories along it! Make a beautiful modern area, and don't fill the Hole with another one-sided concrete!"
Meanwhile, most bloggers are not inclined to criticize the architecture itself in the project: “Still, what Grigoryan does is a good form,” says Irina Irbitskaya. Another thing is that, according to the blogger, both a building and streets are needed here: “There is an ideal place for a capillary pedestrian system and even a micro-area with an exit to the Gruzinsky Val in the direction of Presnya /… /. It is a pity to lose this super resource for creating a chamber town with a train station integrated into it. However, according to Dmitry Narinsky, it is impossible to realize this within the framework of an architectural competition: the approach of architects is to make it beautifully, the approach of planners is convenient. And Alexander Lozhkin notes to this that it is necessary not to delimit both sides, but to change the very content of the profession of an architect if architects want to respond to modern challenges: “Do not cry in the media and demand the introduction of protectionist measures, but learn and change”.
Mikhail Belov did not stay away from the discussion of the competition. He is also dissatisfied with the results: such a "super-profitable shopping center three meters from the exit from the ring metro and a hundred meters from the station" could have arisen under Luzhkov without any competitions, the architect is sure. But it is especially unacceptable in the current competition system that, according to Mikhail Belov, the selected bureaus “adhere to one architectural worldview, and they generally don't care about the scale of the pavilion and the station. And those zafigachil who in what is much, who is coarser and more curly, and who is more delicate and more glassy. "The architect even suspects that the judges and participants in this narrow circle will soon begin to switch places. And Oleg Maksimov, commenting on the post, most of all regrets the lost opportunity to create a square in the full sense of the word: "There will be no square and its unity from the side of the station, just as it did not work from the opposite side of Lesnaya Street."
Another heated discussion on the Internet revolved around the project of bus stops-oases developed for Moscow. Their author, a teacher at the Moscow Architectural Institute Ruben Arakelyan, suggested improving modern stops with bicycle parking, book shelves, a fireplace, mini-shops and even a green lawn. As a result, the cost equaled that of a one-room apartment - three million rubles, which became the subject of indignation of the network audience. “It is enough to make Just a Stop - convenient, practical and inexpensive. Combine the maximum with wifi and a free public toilet, - writes, for example, Mikhail Bolotov. - You are so diligently inventing what it was so difficult to survive and demolish lately - shopping centers, filling stops, barbecue stops, beer stops … . - “As they say in China,“do not draw legs to the snake,”noted Nikita Asadov.
According to Ruben Arakelyan himself, his project is progressive and follows the spirit of the new concept of public transport development, which many European cities have adopted. However, the example of Europe, notes Alexander Antonov, just shows that a stop as a waiting place in the future can die out altogether: if you know the schedule and transport will follow it, the function "wait" at the stop is not needed at all, but a payment terminal, such as a lobby, is needed in the metro: “Look what the German train stations have become today. The waiting room is a nook with an area of 20 square meters with 5-10 seats, the ticket office is 80 meters from the force. And the rest of the square is no longer a railway station in the classical Soviet sense. " Andrey Nadtochiy, in turn, found the project interesting for advertising agencies, "who want to improve the street given to them for advertising, / … / or for stops at business centers, megamalls and civilized transport hubs." And Yurki Ermakov suggested that the author of the project use his resources to create pavilions for smoking: “With the adoption of the law banning smoking in public places, this is much more relevant,” the blogger believes.
In the blogs of Omsk at that time, a campaign was launched against two projects affecting the park areas of the city - the Ferris wheels in Voskresensky Square and the Wedding Palace on the territory of Victory Park. The relevant amendments to the Building and Land Use Regulations were recently discussed at public hearings. “This is an absolutely liar project, only beautiful pictures, nothing more,” comments e_n_z in the nalya-om.livejournal.com magazine, where the voting began. - Nobody has seen the investment project. Not drawings, but numbers. Why would a wheel in the dead center of Omsk suddenly become fucking profitable? It may turn out that under this theme - supposedly investments in the city - they simply chop off a piece of land in the center. " - “In the center of London on the river bank there is a wheel 135 meters high and does not spoil the view, there are old buildings everywhere,” objected the user Viktor Ivanovich. "Indigenous Londoners are not outraged." However, according to Alexander Zhirov, who wrote a whole study on this issue in his blog, “Omsk is not London or Moscow. It is essentially a small town /… /. The development of the city should become for us a vertical concept, we should first of all think about the functional meaning of urban objects: streets, squares, squares, parks, and only then - endow them with a symbolic meaning. The city should become convenient, first of all, for the residents themselves, and only then - attracting tourists”.
Opponents of the "wheel", meanwhile, have selected a dozen alternative locations for its placement.“The same bank of the Omi, but about 1 km upstream, somewhere in the area of Chekhov 3,” writes, for example, vladimir. Or Budarin Square, just 500 meters from Voskresensky Square, where, as alexzhirov notes, an unfinished building rises today, which cannot be demolished by a court order.
At the end of the review - discussion of the project of the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War in the blogs of Minsk. The builders are finishing the finishing of the facades, which, according to the architect's idea, are like fiery volleys of fireworks, and proceed to finishing the interior halls. Bloggers, in turn, welcome the new museum, but shamelessly scold architecture: “Are our architects taught at their Faculty of Architecture solely on the example of the library? A lot of curved surfaces and mirrors? - the Big Snake is indignant. - Well, you must definitely fix the facades with porcelain stoneware. Oh yes - and, of course, the dome! The Bundes (Reichs) tag is now with a dome - why are we worse? " “The design, of course, is modern Belarusian,” adds x_bober. - True, if I ask you to close your eyes now and draw what the old museum building looked like, then you will most likely get a parallelepiped. And here there are at least some local creatives that sink into the memory. It seems to fit into the concept of parades. " The Kloris user does not like the fact that the architecture of the museum does not have any "purely national symbols": "The structure resembles a moat in which local policemen shot the population or the moment a shell exploded." But belegemen finds that the project is well connected with the stele, and the notorious dome will greatly enrich the interiors of the museum.
