"Green architecture" in Russia, like the plants planted on our roofs, takes root with great difficulty. The RUPA community jokes that our trees grow well only on ruins. But if it's no joke, then urbanists really hope to convince public opinion or, as Alexander Vodyanik put it, to redirect the protest energy into a creative channel and start designing in the spirit of “city + vegetable garden”. Russia, of course, is still far from European indicators, where, according to Vitaly Saakov, cities produce up to a quarter of the gross harvest of vegetables and other greenery with their “green architecture”. However, something is happening in this direction: for example, Alexander Vodyanik writes that there is a good experience of the people of St. Petersburg, who “design green facades for reasons of their decorativeness in winter”; the architectonics of leafless crowns turned out to be a very fruitful idea. In addition, the "green" roof is not necessarily on the roof, the user adds, in cities there are a huge number of surfaces above garages and communications where a gardener can turn around. Artyom Taranenko writes about the advantages of the operated roofs in terms of sound insulation and savings on air conditioners. And Igor Popovsky is very pleased with his "green" experiment on the roof of the Barnaul office of Sberbank, despite the fact that at one time opponents even wanted to throw stones at her.
While at RUPA architects are called to the rooftops, in Perm, on the contrary, underground: recently there was a round table on the use of underground space. Perm human rights activist Denis Galitsky, meanwhile, sees no compelling reasons that would drive the townspeople underground: in Perm there is neither an acute transport problem, nor a lack of free space, the blogger believes. “Investors' goals to get underground can be the most unpredictable,” says perfectmixer, at least redirecting human flows to the next shopping center. And isinda_bubuev considers underground construction a very convenient workaround for architects and developers "in the era of the presumption of façade guilt": "It's easier, faster, more efficient, cheaper not to burden usable areas with facades, so as not to get bogged down for 15-20 years with" fit into the environment. " and "preserving ensembles" ".
Against the background of these timid steps, the architectural and construction leap of China of the last decade, about which blogger darrius writes, seems fantastic. But even more fantastic look new residential areas and entire cities built by the best architectural firms and the most advanced technologies "in reserve": over the years, millions of square meters of new buildings and kilometers of highways remain practically deserted, and infrastructural facilities are occasionally used only by residents of neighboring old districts. However, according to darrius, the Chinese were not mistaken here: against the background of high rates of urbanization, the current "ghost towns" will happily come to life in a few years. Bloggers, meanwhile, were deeply impressed by what they saw: “They know how to build, and the style is there, and the colors are beautiful,” writes, for example, maluh1. - Pensioners-planners of our urban planning, this is where they should turn their gaze. - “Not like we have in Minsk: there are Mopid candles in every courtyard, but there are no parking lots, parks, playgrounds,” adds ACEBY, “spontaneous repairs with one left, and the city does not look like a single architectural complex, but it’s not clear what” … “Whole European cities are being counterfeited. This is the scope! " - notes l.i.o.n. “European fake cities are amazing,” agrees Graffenwalder.
Meanwhile, blogger Ilya Varlamov writes about real masterpieces of modern architecture, dedicating his post to one of the best architectural photographers of the last century, Ezra Stoller. In the era of digital, Stoller's method, which, according to Varlamov, instead of post-processing his photographs, edited them in his head, "before pressing the button," may seem archaic. Nevertheless, the result that he achieved through careful examination and experience of the subject was found excellent even by the modern audience.
Architect Yuri Avvakumov in his blog on Snob.ru writes about a new competition for the development of the architectural concept of the NCCA museum and exhibition complex. According to the architect, one should not expect a worthy decision in the heat of haste and desire to build a museum, in the words of the Minister of Culture, “in our lifetime”. The transfer of the object from Baumanskaya to Khodynka also did not contribute to the result, Avvakumov is sure: having missed the opportunity to place the center in an empty production workshop, like Tate Modern, the Ministry of Culture will now spend a lot on the construction of a “sculpture building”. And this is doubly ridiculous, Avvakumov believes, since it was for this reason that the Mindlin-Khazanov project was “hacked to death”.
The blog of the architect Evgeny Assa on Facebook at this time reports on the construction of the wooden pavilions of the vernissage in the Muzeon Park. It can already be seen how strongly bent and pretty larch structures will change the usual look of a crowd of artists.
In the meantime, activists from "City Projects" are invited to the third wave of summer practice to study and improve the capital's amenities. The plans include pedestrian infrastructure, Moscow courtyards and underground passages. And in Samara, volunteers continue their mission to survey the crumbling monuments of architecture. As the blogger golema writes in his magazine, many of the buildings dangerous for pedestrians walking by are not ordinary, not "rotten", but houses built according to the designs of famous architects, for example, Fyodor Shekhtel, as a former Suroshnikov mansion.
