In response to the dismissal of Grigory Revzin from the post of Commissioner of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, social media boosted the architecture critic. This resignation is called a compliment: "Revzin's name will not be compromised in Europe by the new image of Russia." Elena Gonzalez wrote: “I'm thinking about Medinsky's demarche - I can't understand. Grigory Revzin has become more than known to the organizers and curators during his 14 years of being at the Biennale. His removal will surely not go unnoticed. This is bad for the Russian pavilion, and very bad considering the current international situation. So far, I see a fairly well-coordinated ideological work”.
Architect Yaroslav Kovalchuk criticized the concept of reconstruction of Turgenevskaya Square and the Myasnitsky Gate, which Archi.ru recently wrote about. The specialists of the Fourth Dimension workshop do not propose to realize their idea, but hope that it will give an impetus for an architectural competition. Kovalchuk considers their project "nightmarish": in his opinion, the square simply lacks several ground crossings and landscaping; Efim Frailin added normal sidewalks to this list. The commentators were struck by the overpass bridges: "Why build bridges when you can walk on the ground?" Attacks were repulsed by one of the authors of the project, Vsevolod Medvedev. According to him, the historical appearance of this territory has already been irrevocably changed, so the task was to collect the "torn" space, for which a bridge was invented connecting the boulevards along which the main flow of pedestrians walks. Medvedev believes that thanks to this bridge, new vantage points appear in the city space and an environment of a different nature.
On the page of Yaroslav Kovalchuk, the winning project of the reconstruction of Triumfalnaya Square (workshop Buromoscow) was also criticized. Valeriy Nefedov considers the new version of the square too symmetrical: "Any random diagonal or curve, the absence of" mirroring "or the presence of several levels and geoplastics could have saved this square."
Alexander Minakov wrote in his blog about signs that have recently appeared in St. Petersburg, increasing the visual noise in the city. Not only are these structures designed to maximize advertising surfaces: they also offer misdirections and ridiculous transliterations of names, and also obstruct pedestrians. It turned out that about 80% of these structures were installed illegally. With the help of the website of the "Beautiful Petersburg" movement, any city dweller can demand the dismantling of these structures.
Andrey Chekmarev wrote in the blog "Architectural Heritage" about the barbaric destruction of a temple built by Domenico Gilardi in the Smolensk region; Chekmarev managed to attribute this church some time ago. The researcher calls the temple in Molgino "a real pearl of the European style in the Smolensk wilderness." The building had the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional importance and was well preserved - "not a single major crack." However, last summer the temple was demolished for the construction of a remake, which is almost ready. The probable reason is the revival of the agricultural enterprise "Bobrovo", next to which there was a temple.
Arkady Gershman wrote about the demolition of the Red Roads residential area in Glasgow, which will be broadcast during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. “Somewhere officials beat them in the chest, how good they are, since such buildings are being erected in the city, but somewhere out of the demolition of these buildings a holiday is made,” the blogger writes. In the comments in this regard, the problem of multi-storey construction is actively discussed, readers are trying to understand whether Russia can do without it.
Bloggers-historians this week conducted virtual excursions along Karachaevskaya Street, Orel, three abandoned estates of the Moscow region (Mikhailovskoye, Vorobyevo and Rodnevo), the reserved Tsyvozer, as well as the works of constructivist architects in Moscow. Arkady Gershman compared old and modern Copenhagen and clearly showed how pedestrians defeated motorists in this city. In addition, Alexander Rappaport has published a number of essays on the situation in architecture in the 21st century.
