Since the end of last year, the city protection circles of St. Petersburg have been discussing resonant amendments to the law on the boundaries of protected zones. KGIOP together with experts from VOOPIiK proposed to include in the list of the so-called. discordant objects (in the historical center - erected after 1917, on the periphery - after 1956), which are still protected by law, like more valuable buildings, but apparently do not have the right to do so. The blogs believe that such a list can hardly correct modern urban planning mistakes; but the Soviet buildings that fell into it open a well-known road-road for investors. They also write that it is dangerous to vote with a “list” on the fate of hundreds of buildings, as well as to give official meaning to such evaluative concepts as “urban planning error” or “dissonance”. What is considered dissonance and what is not - they could not agree even in the blog of the "Living City". The subject of the controversy was the Communications Center on Bolshaya Morskaya Street, which the author of the post, kleomen, first suggested including in the list. Opinions were divided: some found the building a unique example of constructivism, others - a typology of the Reformed Church that is rare in St. Petersburg (it was rebuilt in the Palace of Culture in the 1930s); accordingly, some offer not to touch anything, others - to reconstruct it back. As r_p summed up, correcting such "errors" is an extremely subjective thing and decisions about their restructuring must be made on an individual basis.
Well, in order to reduce urban planning errors in principle, the architect Dmitry Khmelnitsky proposed to his colleagues to create an analogue of Dissernet on the network for public and independent analysis of projects that win competitions and receive prizes. Since the most active discussion platform in the network has developed among designers and urbanists, Khmelnitsky's proposal was discussed here. Opinions about the benefits of public “ashamed” for architects were divided. For example, Nikolai Nikolai believes that discussions on the sidelines are enough, while not everyone can express a public position, especially, for example, novice architects in large design institutes. Vitaly Ananchenko believes that the best criticism is an alternative: I do not agree - do the project as you see fit.
Architect Mikhail Belov says it is "ashamed" of modern architecture quite often. So in the new essay, the creative process of the current design for the author of the blog looks no more complicated than twisting a kaleidoscope: "People sit and in countless ways they crush the wall on the computer / … /, even place tiles on the facades or windows with peas", they also apply various patterns on the facades both straight and "creatively crumpled" boxes. It is not surprising that the structures designed in this way are increasingly reminiscent of the works of children's art studios, sums up Mikhail Belov.
In order to avoid a new urban planning mistake in Perm, civic activist Denis Galitsky again draws attention to the placement of the Art Gallery in the building of the River Station. Let us remind you that the gallery lives out its days in the building of the Cathedral, and Peter Zumthor will not build a new building for it. As Galitsky writes, the examination recognized the River Station as emergency, as a result of which there are two proposals for today: the first is to demolish the monument building (!), Rebuilding it again higher (thus avoiding the risk of flooding), and to fill the lack of space with an additional building based on the unfinished next to the shopping center. The second is to leave the station as it is, and the necessary areas, the blogger writes, will be "in the built-up floor and the third building, erected on the right in the middle of the square, with a height of 8-10 floors."According to Denis Galitsky, there is only one conclusion: to put an end to the idea of moving the gallery to Rechnoy Vokzal and find a more suitable place for the new building; the blogger found a dozen of them. The user ar_chitect considers the only appropriate one among them is Razgulyay and invites the Union of Architects of Russia to hold an architectural competition. “There is enough space for both classical and sovrisk, a great opportunity for organizing events - there is a square and you can walk in a straight line through the square near the opera house to the esplanade,” adds kotmitrij.
In Sochi, meanwhile, on the eve of the holidays, the demolition of the main building of the Caucasian Riviera sanatorium began in 1904-1909. the buildings. As the author of the blog beliaeva-t.livejournal.com writes, under the guise of the ongoing restoration since 2008, the federal monument has already undergone significant distortions. The day before, the court ruled illegal nine new buildings on its territory, but instead of demolishing them, the historical building of the main building was destroyed, overgrown with new floors and annexes during the recent reconstruction. And in Moscow, the oldest building of the Khudozhestvenny cinema is being prepared for reconstruction. The blog g-victor.livejournal.com writes that it is planned to return the facades to their original appearance, designed by Feder Schechtel (the cinema was opened in 1909). On the third floor, the author of the blog adds, there will be another universal projection hall, and in the completed galleries around the roof rafters there will be an exhibition space.
The traditional review of restorations, losses and conservation of objects of wooden temple architecture of the outgoing year is published in his magazine by the user albokarev. It is not always easy to keep track of the state of monuments, the blogger notes, the destruction of those that stand in remote places becomes known after a few years. However, numerous media outlets wrote about the loudest loss of the past year - the death of an ensemble of a church and a bell tower in Lyadiny in the Arkhangelsk region from a lightning strike. With the disappearance of the federal monument, the number of “wooden tees” (from two churches and a bell tower) preserved in the Russian North, albokarev summarizes, has decreased to six; the most famous among them is located in Kizhi.
