Tsarev Sad is a multifunctional hotel complex with a total area of slightly more than 80 thousand square meters. m, consisting of an apart-hotel, a wellness center and a restaurant, is planned to be built on a plot of 1.17 hectares on Sofiyskaya embankment next to the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, across the river from the Beklemishevskaya tower of the Moscow Kremlin and opposite the Balchug hotel. The site is owned by Sberbank Capital LLC, the role of the technical customer is performed by Midland Development LLC. The history of the design is quite complex, the project was suspended back in 1999, details can be found, for example, here or in Wikipedia.
Recently, LLC "MAO - Sreda" worked on the project of the complex, their project was
shown in the fall at the Zodchestvo festival. According to the authors, one of the initial tasks of their project was "to correct the urban planning situation that developed in 2000 by the method of regenerating visual connections." Each living room in the projected apart-hotel was "visually revealed to the St. Basil's Cathedral", and "landscaped terraces with maximum visual disclosure to historical Moscow" were planned on the roofs of the low volumes of the first row of buildings.
Now the project has been proposed to be revised by eight architectural bureaus, including its authors, Mao - Wednesday, which, whatever the outcome of the competition, retains the function of the general designer, and the general designer will subcontract the winner of the competition. Sergey Kuznetsov announced this at a press briefing on May 22.
So, the architectural firms participating in the competition:
- MAO-Wednesday
- Gerasimov and partners
- ADM
- Kiselev & Partners
- Sergey Skuratov Architects
- Tsimailo, Lyaschenko and partners
- Architectural workshop of M. Atayants
- Utkin Studio
It is easy to predict that this will not only (according to Sergei Kuznetsov) "search for architectural solutions for the most important site for the city today", but also a dispute between modernists and supporters of classical architecture, whose positions were divided in the list of participants in the competition, let's say, equally …
