Blogs: 25-31 July

Blogs: 25-31 July
Blogs: 25-31 July

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Video: Solarflares 25 - 31 July 2012 2024, March
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Another competition initiated by the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Construction aimed at improving the architectural solution of an existing project - the Tsarev Sad hotel complex on Sofiyskaya Embankment - was recognized by the network as an extremely unsuccessful event. According to bloggers, everything proposed by the contestants turned out to be no better than the author's project "MAO - Environment", which, in the end, as it was, and remained in the role of general designer. As Alexei Afonichkin comments, “the authors competed in the ability to draw arches and curls”, someone presented a “five-minute project”, someone, according to Maria Troshina, did it “for Tchoban,” and the overall impression was the most depressing. Yaroslav Kovalchuk believes that the matter is in the absence of a town-planning solution at the stage of the technical assignment, and Vasily Gnuchev - in the organization of the contests themselves, which, according to the user, turn into "some kind of meaningless sport:" you cannot participate in winning "- put a comma where you think is correct …

On the other hand, Mikhail Belov, oddly enough, finds the competition positive, since among its participants there have finally appeared “architects of different outlooks” and colleagues from St. Petersburg, and against the background of “bureau-barons”, for the first time, there was a “separate architect” who did not belong to the capital “mayorat ". A useful lesson, according to the architect, this time was also received by the customer, who, according to Belov, “made sure that he would have to pay for doubts about the impossibility of choice, or no choice at all. And this is a precedent."

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Dutch architect, curator and publisher Bart Goldhorn, a man who has been shaping the media face of modern Russian architecture for many years, has long suspected that building something in Russia is difficult - “there is too much responsibility and too little freedom.” Bloggers, of course, did not pass by his interview to the portal art1.ru, and, in particular, statements about Russian cities, in which "there is an abundance of the public and lack of the private." For example, in the RUPA community, this was regarded as a call to fight the abundance of public spaces in order, as Nadezhda Pakhmutova writes, “to achieve Latin American indicators: three square meters of square per hectare residential quarter, the rest of the greenery is behind the blank fences of villas”, while in Russia, the user continues, "there is no functional need to measure the earth with handkerchiefs, even under capitalism." But Alexander Antonov liked the words of Bart Goldhorn about the need to achieve quality, not quantity: “It's not enough to declare some common area, you have to be responsible for it - take care of it, water it, repair it,” the user writes. “At the same time, our society is moving towards the model, when all the improvement is private and behind a high fence”.

Bloggers also paid attention to the unexpected interview of the odious Yuri Luzhkov to the Dozhd TV channel. Someone even ponastalgic about the times of the "strong business executive"; For example, Marina Mityushina to the critics of the ex-mayor says that they “apparently did not find Moscow before Luzhkov,” since only he was able to settle so many communal apartments, barracks and Khrushchev houses. “Luzhkov would have left in 2002-2004, they would only say thanks to him,” adds chuck_and_geek. - For the fact that the city after the devastation of the late 80s - early 90s became cleaner and the roads are better.

By the way, Luzhkov has not been at the head of the capital for a long time, but the town-planning curiosities have remained: a few days ago a wave of ironic comments about the sudden appearance of the summer cafe "Chaikhona No. 1" on Triumfalnaya Square swept through the blogs. “The campaign“Strategy Chaikhona-1”has been approved by the Moscow Mayor's Office with Eduard Limonov,” says Alexei Beskorovainy, for example. “Chaikhona No. 1 on Triumfalnaya is a great victory for the Council for Public Spaces,” writes Alexander Vinokurov.“The permission to install summer cafes in the center of Moscow without the approval of the architectural project is a compliment to the hucksters and a spit in the souls of local residents,” adds markizy_sunrise. Meanwhile, the author of the blog, Ilya Varlamov, was reminded of his own words about "revitalizing" public spaces with summer cafes; a delicios user, for example, complains about how tables and terraces have literally blocked off the new pedestrian zone on Kuznetsky Most.

But an even greater curiosity came with a new pedestrian zone between Garibaldi and Krupskaya streets, where the first dedicated lane in the capital for … pedestrians appeared on the sidewalk! "For walking on the roadside - a fine, going out into the oncoming lane for overtaking in the absence of a permitting sign is prohibited, not to mention the fact that stopping is allowed only in specially designated places" - either jokingly, or seriously writes the blog author victorborisov. The news turned out to be so ridiculous that at the beginning it was mistaken for photoshop and even a work in the street art genre, as Yuri Gorinov writes on RUPA. However, the story is real - the council, as noted by victorborisov, thus decided to show the direction of the walk from one park zone to another. However, after a couple of days there, apparently, they realized stupidity and covered part of the marking with bitumen. As anderson_mike comments, "this pedestrian zone is a flower compared to what the Central Administrative District is going to do on the old Arbat," where, according to bloggers, they are going to introduce a high-speed dedicated lane for hurrying pedestrians. By the way, this is not the first failed venture in the difficult business of "pedestrianization" of the capital: bloggers recall the unsuccessful experience of the bike path on Vernadsky Prospekt, which was first drawn on the roadway, then transferred to the sidewalk, and then dug it too.

It remains to read about civilized improvement in the blogs of city activists: in the magazines of Ilya Varlamov and ternovskiy.livejournal.com, proposals appeared on the eve of the reconstruction of Maroseyka and Pokrovka streets. The authors propose to widen sidewalks and restrict parking in favor of pedestrians. At the same time, "Urban Projects" intend to add an additional lane for trolley buses, placing stops in the center of the road. However, among bloggers there was no consensus on this matter. For example, to the user zhoolka, the idea of “narrowing the carriageway for cars to one lane in order to make the sidewalk wider than the carriageway” seems at least strange. kamasov wonders why widen the sidewalk if it is immediately narrowed down with trees and benches, and gistory believes that the area has no tourist potential and banning parking there means that local establishments will completely lose interest for visitors.

Meanwhile, in the ongoing discussions about Zaryadye on Yopolis.ru, a new original opinion appeared, the author of which, Petr Miroshnik, proposes to cancel the creative competition for it altogether. “There is no place for creativity here,” says the author, due to too serious restrictions in the form of numerous monuments of architecture and archeology; “And the park is such a strange substance, which may well arise without a special project, just grow out of the ground,” concludes Petr Miroshnik.

And in Sergey Estrin's blog, as always, an original topic appeared - this time about paintings by old masters. Impressed by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, Estrin writes about how easy it really is to distinguish portraits of Old Dutchmen from the Italian school. To do this, it is enough to look at the modernly dressed "out" women: the Dutch women, like 400 years ago in strict portraits, will be Protestant modest, and the Italians will remind of Titian's canvases, where “even the saints repented, only making sure that all the elasticity of the naked flesh is clearly discernible in the beam of warm light,”notes Estrin.

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