The attention of bloggers is again riveted on Zaryadye: last week, six finalists of the most high-profile architectural competition of the current mayor's office were determined. On the net, meanwhile, the results are viewed with skepticism; for example, on the page “Project Russia” on Facebook, they write about the contestants with irony: “We read the“letter of motivation”from the first participant of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (USA). Solid common places. The only thing that attracts attention is that "The project should also lay the foundation for the creation of a new concert hall and hotel complex." Hello, RUSSIA-2!"
“The main thing is that we woke up in time and did not start building idiotic projects of the business center. The hotel will be, however, at the very end of Varvarka. And so … at least something good, "- says dmitryl68 in the blog hitrovka.livejournal.com. The author of the blog nashenasledie, in turn, believes that the competitive TK is generally useless, since it contradicts the current legislation; replace, writes the blogger, and the jury, in which there is no "not a single archeologist, restorer, museum worker, representative of the church, representative of the Ministry of Tourism, and federal, representative of UNESCO, representative of the Ministry of Culture, because Zaryadye is the Kremlin's buffer zone." Blogger Oleg Kruchinin, in a commentary on Archi.ru, is outraged by the strict qualification selection of the competition: “Why are these“show-offs”with a portfolio? What prevented the competition from being made for everyone? How caring we have become to our colleagues from the West …”. However, according to seakonst, “one should not dream of any normal contests. It will be a large, expensive and completely muddy project. Not Sochi, of course, but with all the characteristic features."
Arkhnadzor coordinator Marina Khrustaleva writes in a blog on Yopolis about the archaeological potential of the construction site. According to the author, the work of archaeologists could be carried out here openly and this summer "become a part of the city attraction of the" development "of the city." Nothing, meanwhile, prevents to move the building fence even now, revealing the ancient temples, reminds the author of the idea of the recent exhibition "Over the fence" at the "ArchMoscow" festival.
As for the architecture of the future park itself, judging by the works of the finalists, something is not at all classical expected. Architect Mikhail Belov, meanwhile, offers his 1986 project, made in collaboration with Andrei Savin, as an ingenious alternative. “The project could be called“Homemade jungle in snowy Moscow,”Belov writes. “Progressive Muscovites and their conservative brothers would have gathered there, in a nanotechnologically meaningful jungle.”
“Zaryadye is the most important historical district of Moscow. You need at least one street of the ancient city, maybe even with geese and cows in the yard. The churches to which it should lead, thank God, have remained,”writes another witty commentary on the Kommersant blog by andynoz. - In wooden dwellings there can be cafes and exhibitions (crafts, etc.). In the center of the park, behind the trees, please, modern,”the blogger completes the picture in Yuri Luzhkov's taste.
The competition, meanwhile, also touched upon the participants in the discussion in the RUPA community around the unexpected popularity of urban issues among current politicians. For example, Irina Irbitskaya reminds that the idea of the park in Zaryadye is the merit of Vyacheslav Glazychev, who managed to convince the then tandem of its necessity. - “They realized at the top that it is better to let off excess steam through the parks. But this conversation is still very far from the real park, - Valery Nefedov remarks. - The landscape absurdity reigning in the country completely erases the slightest chance to build something other than another "memorial to the absurd". With bronze and Christmas trees. Our court landscape painters, no matter how they make up like civilized ones, shouldn't even be allowed into the discussion. " However, according to Irina Irbitskaya, the organizer of the Strelka competition has just found a compromise - “it was not our landscape designers who passed, but our + foreign architects”. It would be even better, the architect notes, if educational institutions were added to them, which, according to Irina Irbitskaya, should be given preferences in the competition.
Meanwhile, an article in Gazeta.ru reported that the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin recently came to the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design to discuss urbanism with young architects. However, the professional workshop regarded this as a self-promotion of an official, and not at all a desire to bring urbanism to the priority goals of the policy of large cities. “In the area of urban development, the country is confidently heading towards disaster,” commented Alexander Lozhkin. - The main architects of cities are excellent conductors of this policy /… /. Professionals who understand the situation simply don’t go to state and municipal bodies in order not to participate in what is happening,”the architectural critic concludes.
Saratov bloggers, on the other hand, greeted Volodin's appearance at Strelka lively: for example, in the magazine masha-usova.livejournal.com they write about the official's participation in a number of successful urban development projects in Saratov, including the new building of the Theater for Young Spectators, the buildings of Saratov University and the project a park near the circus, which, however, according to the author of the magazine, after Volodin left, was built up with another shopping center.
In general, the emerging professional discussion about the city, in the opinion of the RUPA community members, is not useless. Moreover, according to Irina Irbitskaya, it would be worth involving the professionals of the Luzhkovskaya team, for example, the former chief architect Alexander Kuzmin: “There are almost no such large, large-scale personalities as Kuzmin,” Irina Irbitskaya notes. - “Strelka is a bearer of modernity, and Kuzmintsy is a bearer of experience”. “Sobyanin works on those theoretical materials, plans of action, which were created by the professional team of Kuzmin,” agrees Ilya Mashkov.
By the way, a lot of noise in the blogs was caused by the recent initiative of Mayor Sobyanin to cancel the approval of the Moscow City Heritage Site of construction projects in the protected zones. It is curious that in addition to officials, some architects also supported the bill. For example, the participants of the same RUPA reflect in time with the head of the Moscow City Heritage Site, Alexander Kibovsky, who advocates bringing city legislation in line with federal legislation and removing unnecessary administrative barriers. “Considering that every agreement is probably another bribe, then why not?” - writes, for example, Mikhail Lin. “I am for the responsibility of the architect, documents and regulations and against approvals,” Ilya Mashkov supports. It is high time to replace the agreements with clear regulations in the security zones, Alexander Lozhkin is sure, especially since "the norm on approvals with state authorities for construction in the security zones was excluded from 73-FZ more than 5 years ago," the critic notes.
The opponents of the initiative were, as expected, city rights defenders, in whose opinion the adoption of the law will only increase the confusion in the protected zones, which will damage the historical appearance of the capital. "So this is it, now the reason for Sobyanin's silence in numerous cases of the demolition of architectural monuments in Moscow is clear," Rufus55 writes in the comments on the Ridus portal. “These defenders of the historical heritage are preventing them from developing the squares in the center of Moscow!” “It is foolish to show so clearly a personal interest in the development of historical sites,” sakaska adds in the Kommersant blog. - “Even Luzhkov didn’t allow himself this…”, - the DIK user concludes.
The city authorities, meanwhile, are increasingly ignoring the calls of city rights activists, and city activists have to literally risk their health by saving monuments. So, having exhausted all legal ways to stop the reconstruction of the Bolkonsky house on Vozdvizhenka, 9, on the night of June 25, Arkhnadzor coordinator Rustam Rakhmatullin and two activists climbed onto the roof to prevent the dismantling of the historic dome: dome. The crane hooked him with a hook, but did not start lifting, fearing to ruin people,”says Marina Khrustaleva in a blog on Yopolis. As a result, the builders were stopped until the morning; city rights activists thank their colleagues for their dedication, realizing, however, that the confrontation will not end there.
