Alternative to dismantling the Shukhov Tower
Attention to the tower on Shabolovka continues unabated. The Shukhov Tower Foundation posted on the Internet a video recording of the report of Galina Shelyapina, Head of the Communications Structures Department of TsNIIPSK, about the most economical and safest restoration option. The specialist said that the tower on Shabolovka consists of 6 sections, each of which has 48 intersecting rods. You can safely open the joints and release 3 rods out of 48, inspect and restore them, and then move on to the next node. This option is much cheaper than dismantling and transferring, all work can take one and a half to two years. Meanwhile, on the pages of social networks, activists publish the answers of officials to letters and petitions in defense of the Shukhov Tower.
Vukan Vuchik in Russia
The famous professor Vukan Vuchik arrived in Omsk. On March 29, together with the Urban Projects agency, he will hold a meeting with the regional governor on the modernization of the rail transport system. The metro has been under construction in the city for 30 years, but, as Vuchik said in an interview with Omsk journalists, it is never too late to stop movement in the wrong direction. In his opinion, it makes no sense to implement such an expensive project in a not too big city - it will be possible to build only one branch for 8-10 km, while a cheaper light rail system covering the entire city will be able to solve most of its transport problems. Taking advantage of the fact that the professor travels to Omsk via Moscow, the Urban Projects agency raised money for Vuchik's lecture in the capital.
Urban problems
Dmitry Sergeev in his blog polemicizes with Grigory Revzin about the impact of insolation norms on domestic development. In his opinion, comfortable urban housing in Europe is obtained not at all because of the absence of such norms, but because it is fundamentally different in structure than in Russia. Due to the lack of competition, the 9-17-storey typical building adopted in our country is aimed at obtaining the maximum number of meters for sale, and not at comfort and illumination. And from above, a legend was launched that it is precisely the insolation norms that prevent the appearance of good housing in Russia, despite the fact that these norms have now ceased to be observed, and defiantly.
Anton Buslov touched upon another little-discussed issue - the problem of city dust. Dust is not only a product of exhaust gases: it is mainly soil particles that can contain many harmful substances. It causes headaches, frequent colds, allergies, indigestion, and weakens the immune system. The blogger suggests adopting the experience of the West: “packing” urban greenery in boxes, using vacuum cleaners, installing parking bollards and curbs to protect lawns, abandoning leaf cleaning and planting grass on wastelands.
Alexander Shumsky writes that the reconstruction of the Yaroslavl highway ended in failure: "Now we have a traffic jam 5 km long and costing 10 billion rubles." He conducted a survey according to which more than half of drivers believe that the speed of movement has become slower or has not changed at all. In the discussion, readers are also outraged about the reconstruction of the Ryazan and Shchelkovskoye highways and come to the conclusion that in most cases congestions arise because of the "bottleneck", which sooner or later any extended road rests against.
The drivers of St. Petersburg are also outraged, says Sergei Oreshkin, who observed the transport problems of the new terminal at Pulkovo airport. The entrance for meeting passengers is packed with parked cars, which the evacuators cannot handle. The town planning council warned that everything would turn out in this way, Oreshkin claims. Also, according to the architect, in reality the airport is very different from the renders of the project.
About high
Alexander Rappaport posted on his blog a conversation with Mikhail and Anatoly Belov about paper architecture, recorded for the Project Russia magazine. Despite his love for paper architecture, Rappaport considers it an infantile game, to which there is no point in dedicating one's life: something more fundamental and world-contemplative should be behind it. In his opinion, today paper architecture is a subconscious escape from the sinking ship of architecture, a symptom of the degeneration of architecture as an art and profession.
Architect-urban planner Ilya Zalivukhin published a video story about the concept of the strategic master plan for Moscow, prepared by the Yauzaproekt bureau for the exhibition “Moscow: development scenarios” at the Museum of Architecture. A. V. Shchusev. The project is based on the idea of the city as a polycentric system of independent districts.
In the light of recent events, the “Architectural Heritage” community has published a photo selection of architectural monuments, testifying to the closeness and mutual intersections of Russian and Ukrainian history and culture.
