Throughout the week, blogs were worried about the events that took place in the Moscow district of Biryulyovo, which, in the end, received an architectural and urban planning assessment. “The prerequisites for a burst in Biryulyovo sooner or later were laid about thirty years ago by some“genius”who decided that people could live in the triangle formed by Varshavskoye Shosse, Lipetsk-Baku streets and the Moscow Ring Road,” writes in Facebook Elena Panfilova. The ghetto matured gradually: according to the blogger, this was facilitated by three railways, cemeteries, thermal power plants and slender rows of gloomy gray nine-story buildings, which Biryulyovo built up, “while the extreme houses with their balconies, which are scary to look at, and on which some gray rags are always drying, do not hang directly over the Moscow Ring Road”. Alexander Antonov in the comments on RUPA corrects that in Biryulyovo it is not at all slender rows of nine-story buildings, but "funny patterns in the form of circles, stars." However, it is more important that Biryulyovo, according to Natalia Remi, essentially “does not differ from those new districts with which the adjacent territories are now being built up”: ghetto neighborhoods where, apart from melancholy and a blue TV screen, residents will not expect anything”. The only difference is, adds Antonov, that it won't take 40 years to turn them into a depressive ghetto, 20 years maximum. And also in Moscow there is "the industrial east of Ryazanka-Volgogradka" and other places "with potential", notes Andrey Egorov, so the capital is a minefield. Why Moscow, “90% of our country is Biryulyovo, industrial cities are hell,” concludes Irina Baryshnikova.
In the late 1970s, futurologists drew pictures very similar to Biryulevo, imagining, for example, the linear city of the future - Biotrongrad. About this and other utopian projects from the pages of the magazine "Technics - Youth" - material on the page "Archimir" in Facebook. The resemblance of Biryulyovo to the 1978 utopia, however, is purely formal: in contrast to the "sleeping people", 55-storey biotron houses were conceived as an absolutely autonomous and high-tech system: they fed and served their 5 thousand inhabitants and were connected underground by high-speed vacuum pipelines.
Not so futuristic, but no less interesting, they propose to solve the transport problem of Moscow today, using the resources of the Moscow Railway. Yaroslav Kovalchuk comments in the community of urbanists on the round table held in the House of Architects the day before: “On the Moscow Railway, two tracks are given to passenger trains. Platforms and transfers are built at all intersections. Interchange stations are also made with the metro wherever possible. Covered and covered platforms for interchange hubs (except for a few, where the Moscow City Heritage Agency did not permit to build)”. However, according to the blogger, the revitalization of the Moscow Railway is likely to cause an even greater burden on the transport system in the form of those office spaces that will immediately begin to appear next to the tracks. Aleksey Shchukin has doubts about the simultaneous construction of a third metro interchange loop, which will be shifted to the south in the form of a figure eight in relation to the Moscow Ring Road ring: “Was it worth it to start digging a new metro ring in parallel? Maybe it was more optimal to spend money on metro-radii or metro-chords?”, - the expert comments. Ilya Zalivukhin writes that it is better and cheaper, instead of the metro, to make a frame of high-speed highways and run light rail transport along it. And according to Yegor Shakhpenderyan, cargo transportation will remain the main one for the Moscow Railway: “The intensity of the transportation of people on the Moscow Railway will probably be lower than in the metro. It will be rather a presentation type of transport”.
For the development of public transport and against the "hellish road construction" deployed by the mayor's office, blogger Maxim Katz once again spoke out. In the Echo Moskvy blog, an activist of City Projects writes that "within 5-15 years we will have to dismantle all these expressways, Bolshaya Leningradki, sections of the third ring and many other senseless structures that interfere with normal life." Just because it is impossible to meet the demand for moving around the city by car, as it is endless, the blogger recalls.
Blogger Ilya Varlamov, a colleague of Katz, recently called for an active fight against architectural ugliness in Moscow, “take bulldozers, demolition men and demolish, demolish, demolish” everything that has spoiled its appearance in recent decades. Varlamov suggests starting from the monument to Peter the Great, then cleaning the Manezhnaya Square from "Tseretelian animals, cheap beer and swimming pools" and removing the "disgusting building of Nautilus" from the Lubyanka. Bloggers readily supplemented the list with the European and Atrium shopping centers and the new Voentorg. It was also proposed to demolish the “Khrushchevs and dull boxes of the 60-80s” and the restored Cathedral of Christ the Savior. But the blogger alex_from_kiev went farthest, offering to remove the Kremlin walls and make a recreation area instead. “The Kremlin should become a part of Moscow, and Moscow itself should become more democratic and less state-owned,” the user is sure. - Make an art gallery in the Mausoleum. Instead of the walls - a park area or build up the territory with buildings in a style that would not be discordant with the place, and place, for example, restaurants in the Kremlin towers."
Meanwhile, the call for demolition seemed to have been heard in the Ministry of Culture, where they seriously discussed the demolition of the vault of the Lenin Library, whose ugly rectangle is located behind the magnificent neoclassical building of Gelfreich and Shuko. The library looks much better without storage, bloggers write on Denis Romodin's Facebook page, although Romodin himself is sure that the destruction of the high-rise dominant of the ensemble is unacceptable, especially since this is a part of it that has the status of an architectural monument.
Meanwhile, city rights activists are spreading the news in blogs that the historical value has again been neglected - this time on Sadovnicheskaya Street, where Privalov's apartment building, built in 1903 by the famous architect Nirnzee, is being demolished. It is worth noting that the bloggers found a direct threat to the legacy in the interview of the chief architect of the capital Sergei Kuznetsov published the day before to Izvestia. For example, Dmitry Khmelnitsky, in his blog and in the urban community, was surprised by Kuznetsov's words that the problem of heritage protection arose when “it was discovered that new buildings were losing out to old ones”. “If the new houses are no worse than the old ones, then it makes no sense to keep the old ones,” sums up the chief architect Dmitry Khmelnitsky. However, Nikolai Lukyanov is sure that the talk was more about the quality of modern buildings, which would not replace, but could “adequately compete with the best examples of historical heritage or simply fit into the environment as the“first violin”. Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
