The main event of the outgoing week was the results of the blitz competition for the development of Triumfalnaya Square. Contrary to expectations, the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Architecture did not announce the winner, stressing that they would choose him from the three finalists together with the capital's overhaul department. Archi.ru wrote in detail about the projects of this trio, and Afisha, in turn, took comments from experts. So, according to urbanist Pyotr Kudryavtsev, the competition should be held among designers of urban spaces and urbanists, since its main task is “to invent life and make it comfortable with minimal means”; Moscow architects, notes Kudryavtsev, tried to solve the problem with the help of their traditional tools - the arrangement of volumes and other "bright gestures". Those who fought for the City Projects competition are not too happy with the results, since none of the finalists, according to them, provided an analysis of the existing pedestrian flows.
For comparison, the urbanurban.ru portal publishes a large study of the mechanism of work of foreign competitions, in which much is unusual for us - from the analysis of public opinion to the intensive rotation of market participants, allowing new names to break through. In the capital, meanwhile, new architectural competitions are taking place - in the queue, for example, the reconstruction of the Luzhniki swimming pool; Chief Architect Sergei Kuznetsov spoke about this and other sports facilities under construction in Moscow in an interview with RBC.
In turn, the Moscow region for the first time thought about the urban development of its constituent historical settlements, such as Sergiev Posad, Istra, etc. The methodology for developing a strategy for this development, as reported by The Village, will be done by Project Megan in cooperation with KB Strelka … Until now, the balance between the preservation of the historical heritage and the development of cities near Moscow was, as you know, with a big stretch: "Novye Izvestia", for example, writes that another scandal with a construction project in the protected zones of the Lavra is flaring up in Sergiev Posad now.
Due to the numerous nearby monuments and their protected zones, the Moscow Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, meanwhile, lost a number of large objects, the construction of which was planned in the project of the "museum town". As a result, the museum was left with the opportunity to develop within the limits of only those 11 buildings that it managed to acquire over the course of thirty years. The president of the Pushkin Museum, Irina Antonova, told the Izvestia newspaper about this. According to her, such a sharp turn in the attitude of the "top" to the museum plans can only be explained by the fact that "many are haunted by the amazing piece of Moscow around the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. And I will not be surprised, - adds the former director, - if in two years without any architectural advice a large multi-storey building appears there. Well, the Perm Art Gallery still remains without a roof over its head: the River Station, the presentation of the reconstruction project of which took place the day before, is now being considered among seven more possible sites for the collection. Among them, according to Kommersant, included, for example, the slope along the Esplanade, quarter No. 179, occupied so far by the regional psychiatric hospital, etc. The ransom of existing buildings under UGS facilities, for example, the Perm Military Institute of Missile Forces, is separately considered, the newspaper adds.
Meanwhile, in Moscow on March 1-2, a congress of public city protection organizations of Russia was held, which, among other things, discussed the fate of the Shabolovskaya tower. The Arhnadzor website reports that the activists decided to send a letter protesting against the dismantling of the monument to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Denis Romodin explains in an article on The Village why the Shukhov hyperboloid will withstand, despite the serious age and wear of the structures. The local historian, by the way, reminds that in 1939 the structure withstood a collision with a mail plane, so the rumors about "falling on the head" are clearly exaggerated. In the IHO VOOPIiK, in turn, they are dissatisfied with the results of the congress: the society stated that the proposed text of the charter - the final document of the congress - clearly does not pull the role of the all-Russian "constitution" of city defenders. Namely, such a document is needed to "turn the movements from scattered groups of the intelligentsia into a national cause," experts say. Among other things, the IGO VOOPIiK demands a total ban on the demolition of all historical buildings before 1917, and not just "monuments", and the restoration of Rosokhrankultura with prosecutorial powers. Numerous examples prove the need for such harsh measures, and one of the most famous is the Pushchino estate on Nara. However, hope dawned in the fate of the magnificent ensemble: Vedomosti reports that the estate was rented by Investgroup ASG, which implies a comprehensive restoration of the object over seven years.
