On March 11, the international real estate exhibition MIPIM-2014 opened in Cannes, where the Moscow Government went with the largest program and a new interactive model of the capital with an area of 70 sq. The model is the most spectacular part of the exposition: according to the portal of the Archsovet, now it reproduces 6,500 buildings within the Boulevard Ring, and later will grow to 945 sq. m. and will include the entire territory of Moscow within the Third Transport Ring, as well as Vorobyovy Gory and the ZIL industrial zone.
Among other things, Cannes announced that a concept competition will be announced for the reconstruction of the All-Russian Exhibition Center this year, M24 reports; and the portal inmsk.ru transmits the words of a representative of VTB Bank about the permission received from the Moscow authorities for the construction of the Dynamo stadium, the project of which was changed after it was decided not to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Among the regions, the Chechen Republic distinguished itself by presenting at MIPIM the project of the highest tower in Europe "Akhmat" in the MFC "Grozny-City", writes RBC. The 400-meter skyscraper should break the records of the Moscow "Mercury City Tower" and London's The Shard.
Continuing the topic of investment projects, Afisha publishes an overview of new amusement parks in the Moscow region this week. The scale of the projects is impressive: in only one park "Russia", which will be built in the Domodedovo area, a safari park, a botanical garden, mini-tracks "Formula 1", a residential complex, a park of historical reconstructions and branches of the Tretyakov Gallery with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts are planned. Pushkin.
In other districts of the Moscow region, a park for fans of space entertainment, "The Village of Hobbits" and so on are planned. However, along with the rich investment plans of the capital and the region, less optimistic news from the heritage defenders made the weather this week. To begin with, on March 12, a mass picket was held in the center against the destruction of old Moscow, organized by the IGO VOOPIiK and the public coalition "In Defense of Moscow". The speakers criticized the Deputy Mayor Marat Khusnullin, under whose leadership the so-called. A "passable commission", which became famous even under Vladimir Resin for "cleansing" Moscow from dozens of historic buildings. City activists, meanwhile, admit that they are paradoxically forced to fight the official system of protecting monuments. This is, in particular, a large material in "Ogonyok", dedicated to the past congress of city defenders. Russian laws practically do not protect environmental buildings, the article notes, which means that the wooden quarters of Vologda, constructivist workers' townships in Moscow and many other things that are not formally recognized as monuments are constantly under attack.
This list, meanwhile, may include the constructivist buildings of Shabolovka; architectural historian Anna Bronovitskaya, commenting on the story of the transfer of the Shukhov Tower to the Open Left portal, notes that this plot may well be behind "an extremely ambitious plan for infill development and even, possibly, redevelopment of the entire surrounding residential area." In fact, it has already begun with the demolition of the constructivist Don baths, and the next victim may be, for example, the Khavsko-Shabolovsky housing estate, the expert adds.
Not everything is clear with the future of another avant-garde monument - the House of Architect Melnikov, because, although the Ministry of Culture has made a historic decision to make a museum in it, at the Museum of Architecture named after Shchusev's concept of his branch is still rather vague. This is the subject of an article in Moskovsky Komsomolets. The publication also quotes the executor of the will and the keeper of the house Ekaterina Karinskaya, who is unhappy with the fact that the so-called "House of the Gardener" allocated for exhibiting the Melnikovs' heritage (Vozdvizhenka, 5/25, p.17) is located too far from the mansion in Krivoarbatsky. And finally, the sparkling recollection of Grigory Revzin in the new section of Kommersant about how the Moscow Manezh burned on that day in 2004. According to the critic, both then and now he is sure of involvement in the arson of ex-mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who in such a simple way resolved the investment deadlock with the reconstruction of the building. And yet Yuri Luzhkov, according to Revzin, is worthy of admiration, if only for the fact that with such fearlessness he appeared at the fire just an hour after the start, "with a ready-made reconstruction plan."
