To all appearances, the ARCHIWOOD prize has set itself a difficult and thankless task: to lime in our original open spaces everything that is condoval, hackneyed and to direct the development of primordially primordial material in a strictly modernist, rather Finnish, channel. First, the expert council, and then the jury selected the items of the strictest forms - there is nothing of this here: they are not "in the dust with the rest" in them. Predictably in Moscow, Garage, Gorky Park and Boris Bernasconi are in the lead, in Vologda - a group of young girls-architects of ABO !, who arranged pieces of this city as part of last year's Days of Architecture (in which the organizers of ARCHIWOOD Julia Zinkevich and Nikolai Malinin actively participated). It is difficult to say why the prizes were not awarded to Alexander Brodsky - probably for being too famous.
Slightly more unexpected, although definitely stylistically close to the chosen course, was the victory of the Yaroslavl architect Grigory Dainov - the only author in respect of whom the opinions of the jury and the popular vote coincided, the undisputed hero of this year's award. From the original, only a terribly uncomfortable-looking bench with a red star penetrated, greetings from the commissars in dusty helmets, and a "hay temple" from the ArchFarm. However, how original it is: a thing definitely from the textbook of the General History of Architecture, an ironic retelling of the archetypes of our childhood.
Y. Tarabarina
Below we publish a list of awardees in nominations:
Vacation home
The jury and the popular vote chose the same object of the Yaroslavl architect Grigory Dainov:
Residential building in the Yaroslavl region (Yaroslavl region, Nekrasovsky district).
Public building
Jury's choice: Exhibition Hall of CSK "Garage" (Moscow, Park of Culture).
Popular vote: Cafe-terrace "Ostrovok" (Moscow, Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure).
Small object
Jury's choice: Children's tree house (Moscow region, Chigasovo village).
Popular vote: Bookstand (Moscow, Kultury Park).
Urban environment design
In the nomination, two works by the Vologda studio ABO won! Definitely, everything will be fine with the urban environment in Vologda soon.
Jury's choice: Triangular Garden (Vologda, square in front of VGTU, festival "Days of Architecture in Vologda", project "Activation").
Popular vote: Red Beach (Vologda, the space near the Red Bridge, the festival "Days of Architecture in Vologda", the project "Activation").
Art object
Jury's choice: Temple in Antakh (Tula region, Zaoksky district, "ArchFerma").
The expert advice, meanwhile, while selecting this temple from the hay to the shortlist, doubted: it is not quite wooden, after all. A simple argument helped - there is a wooden frame inside.
Popular vote: City park bench "La-5" (Moscow).
Special Jury Prize
Arch of Boris Bernasconi at the ArchStation.
Special prize HONKA
Country house in the village of Sovyaki Nikolay Belousov.
The organizers of the award are HONKA (Rossa Rakenne St. Petersburg), the Communication Rules agency, the official partner is the Velsky Les company, and the partners are Vector Investments and PINO.
