Every city with a river should have a landscaped pedestrian zone along the embankment, city activists often write in blogs. However, for the local authorities it is more obvious that there is not enough money for roads and schools, writes, in turn, blogger Anton Buslov, and improvement in the country is understood differently. In Samara, for example, until recently, instead of the embankment, according to Buslov, there was "a long and smelly strip with a bunch of plastic sheds with cafes." And, lo and behold, during the recent reconstruction, a five-kilometer recreational zone in the European style appeared in its place. We started with the arrangement of a cycle path, however, it was unsuccessful: according to the blogger, "the path is taken out on the terrace, where it cannot be used for transport, but only for walking." However, the subsequent stages of reconstruction turned out much better: modern cafes, toilets and playgrounds appeared on the embankment, the Parus fountain was restored. “Almost Nice,” concludes Anton Buslov. “It would be nice for the next turn or for the next reconstruction Samara would still start ordering projects of cafes and the embankment from fashionable workshops (as they began to do in Moscow), and not from the Research Institute“GenPlanStroySamaraSpetsProekt-24,”adds the user mff. Other cities, however, have no time for fashion: there, as they write in the comments, the embankments either have not been interested at all since Soviet times, or, as, for example, in Saratov, instead of reconstruction they have done something dull and careless.
And this blog contains exactly what "fashionable Moscow workshops" are doing from the capital's Krymskaya embankment. The work, however, has not yet been completed, but the long-awaited exhibition pavilions have already been built, sun loungers, unusual outdoor furniture have been installed, and a cycle path with slides has begun. Bloggers, however, added their fly in the ointment here and blamed the quality of the tiles, poor "steppe" landscaping and modern lanterns - "gallows"; however, the rest were satisfied. It has only become inconvenient for the artists, notes the gistory, who will no longer be able to drive up to the pavilions to unload their paintings. However, “paintings are not sacks of potatoes,” gre4ark replies. "But now they won't get wet in the rain."
At that time, the blog realt.onliner.by discussed the architecture of Astana, or rather the new city that over the past twenty years has grown on the left bank of the Ishim. The city is grandiose by Asian standards and, as the author of the post notes, it was built "for growth": for example, the famous Foster's "Khan Shatyr" is practically empty during the day. User MelNik adds that behind this beautiful scenery on the left bank is Soviet Astana, whose appearance is rather depressing. True, in the opinion of bloggers, this does not in the least detract from the local architectural breakthrough, which, by the way, according to Mr. Lord, was a success also because all projects in Astana are personally supervised by the President of Kazakhstan.
And the last twenty years in Russian architecture, meanwhile, became the subject of research in a new book by Grigory Revzin "Russian architecture at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries." To her presentation, Mikhail Belov wrote in his blog: “What GI Revzin did, a cultural tectonic shift. He translated the period of architecture during the Gaidar-Yeltsin reforms and Luzhkov's rule into a historical plane. " Mikhail Belov himself, having become one of the heroes of the new book, felt with pleasure that he was a “historical character of this cultural artifact”.
In St. Petersburg, history, or rather historical real estate, is literally slipping from under the feet of its current owners, thanks to the renovation program of several blocks in the city center. The other day, according to Fontanka, the Council for Cultural Heritage considered the amendments to federal legislation prepared by Smolny, which impede the start of work on modernizing the Konyushennaya and New Holland-Kolomna quarters, and at the same time the "cleanup" of local residents add to the blog. “All parts of the city where renovation is really needed and where people have been waiting for resettlement for years are of no interest to anyone,” notes the user of Calligraphy. As well as the fate of the historical buildings, JACQUELINE is sure, “the most dainty houses will be cleaned up, communal apartments will be scattered somehow. No one here is interested in saving the city."
On the other hand, the Moscow city rights defenders have a weighty reason to rejoice - the restoration of the so-called. “Houses with Caryatids” (Sysoev's mansion) in Pechatnikov Lane, famous for the footage of the movie “12 Chairs” and the information campaign of “Arhnadzor”, which for a long time called on the authorities to stop the destructive reconstruction. According to dmitryl68, the restored mansion today "shone with fresh colors, like the Orlov diamond on a scepter." Fears are now caused by neighboring buildings, which together with it form a pretty piece of authentic old Moscow buildings, the blogger adds, since at one time in their place there was a project of "a six-story booth of another business center." "Sysoev's mansion will not survive the proximity to the foundation pit of a huge construction site, or it will simply become uninteresting, having lost its original surroundings," concludes dmitryl68.
Well, blogger Ilya Varlamov continues a series of posts about the most famous architectural photographers of the 20th century, Alexander Rodchenko. By the way, according to Rodchenko's photographs, Varlamov writes, one can study not only the innovative avant-garde architecture for its time, but also the unique social phenomena of a new form of socialized life, such as factories-kitchens or factories-laundries, which were then very popular.
