What will become of the capital's Triumfalnaya Square in the near future remains a secret. The public is worried, but the company "Trio", which won the tender, refuses to show its concept. It is also impossible to see what other participants suggested. The only visual image of the new square, drawn by the Megabudka bureau, still exists in the public domain, although in essence it has nothing to do with what will be done there. The Yopolis.ru portal managed to find out some details about the real project from the architect Tatyana Buyanova, who was hired by the Trio as a designer. According to her, the square will be decided “in the style of Suprematism”: “It will be a flat square with elements that will diversify it. We want to make designer lanterns in the shape of "downspout flute" and a thematic drawing based on the paintings of Yakov Chernikhov ". They will not lower the monument to Mayakovsky into the "pit" - this is obviously blasphemy, says Tatiana Buyanova. “I perfectly understand how much you can earn by digging a hole in the middle of the square - this is a diamond quarry. Therefore, it looks more like populism, the idea is not visible,”the architect notes in the direction of an alternative project.
Interesting opinions about the reconstruction are given by The Village portal. Eduard Limonov, who embodies the "protest" history of the square, for example, believes that the project came about with the aim of making an underground parking for the converted "Beijing". But the architects, on the contrary, are sure that the square in its present form cannot exist and the very idea of reconstruction is correct. Many also support the idea of an architectural competition put forward by the public. In the opinion, in particular, of Alexei Muratov, for public spaces reconstructed for budget money, such things "should be a priori." By the way, in the "Megabudki" project, the expert finds very sensible ideas of a multi-level space "setting several scales of social interactions, from areal to quite chamber." And even the notorious stepped funnel, into which the statue of Mayakovsky was immersed, is not so terrible, Aleksey Muratov is sure, but rather “evokes thoughts both that several theaters are concentrated on the square, and that Times Square in New York a similar tribune."
Incidentally, public activists and young architects, bursting with good ideas for urban development, this fall was given a great chance to implement them. For several months, the project “What Moscow Wants” has been collecting ideas, then architectural projects, and now it is close to the final - the presentation of all these proposals at the upcoming Urban Forum. The selection of the most interesting projects at the same The Village included modular "collective farm markets", a wing of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, hanging over the line at the museum ticket offices and the original typical kindergartens - "greenhouses".
For the aforementioned forum, Afisha published an interview with one of the participants in a sociological survey of the Moscow periphery - the main topic of the Urbanforum - Alexei Levinson, who directs sociocultural research at the Levada Center. And on the urbanurban.ru portal, Petr Ivanov analyzes the logic of Russian mayors, who prefer to “change the face of the city” with single, but very expensive projects. “Just as Gorky Park creates a“European-level urban environment”within its own fence, and not within the boundaries of Moscow, so these cultural clusters are closed systems,” the author of the article concludes.
Speaking of "creative clusters" - RIA Novosti reports that the Board of Trustees of the Polytechnic Museum approved the architectural concept of its museum and educational center on Lomonosovsky Prospekt. Let us remind you that it was developed by the Italian-Russian team “Massimiliano Fuksas Architetto” and “Speech”, which won the competition back in March. Gazeta.ru devotes recent material to the reconstruction of the stadium in Luzhniki, a competition for which was announced this week. From the words of the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Marat Khusnullin, we can conclude that the appearance of the stadium will not change dramatically; mainly the stands are being reconstructed and the roof will be extended.
In the same Gazeta.ru, Arkhnadzor coordinator Konstantin Mikhailov shares his impressions of the construction of a new Moscow City Duma building on the territory of the former Novo-Catherine Hospital on Strastnoy Boulevard. The city activist is surprised by the scale of the pit 20 meters from the federal monument, but even more - by the authorship of the project, which turned out to be the signature of the chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov. By the way, one of the members of the Moscow Architectural Council headed by Kuznetsov, the German architect Hans Stimman, also recently became the focus of media attention, this time in Kaliningrad, which has recently been painfully searching for the idea of reconstructing its center. Hans Stimmann earned disfavor for his proposal, instead of literally building a model of pre-war Konigsberg, to use the method of "critical reconstruction" and to reproduce with modern means only the scale of the lost building. The author of the article on Klops.ru concluded that by doing so Shtimman allowed the developers "to start developing the precious wasteland in the heart of the city without any special problems."
Meanwhile, a number of publications mark the end of the reconstruction of the world famous Alvar Aalto library in Vyborg. By the way, the Finns helped to save the masterpiece of functionalism from destruction. But the estates near Moscow (more precisely, those that ended up on the territory of New Moscow) have nowhere to expect such help. In this gloomy situation, the Heritage Capitalization Center took care of the monuments, which, on a private initiative, is looking for investors for the reconstruction of estates for ready-made investment projects - restaurants, rest houses, etc. Details can be found on the pages of The Village, which recently spoke with the authors of the project - ex-director of social projects at the Skolkovo school Nune Alekyan and a member of Arkhnadzor Marina Khrustaleva.
