The leaders of the jury voting were the projects of two architectural bureaus: BuroMoscow and Progress, thus dividing the conditional first place among themselves. The projects must go through another stage of discussion within the Barkley company, after which the final version will be selected.
The residential building is planned to be built at the address: Moscow, Bolshaya Ordynka, house 20/4, and - Ordynsky blind alley, possession 6, building 1. To free the territory for construction, it is planned to demolish the four-story apartment building of 1875 and the six-story apartment building of F. P. Kuznetsov 1913 of the year; the existing houses are united by a well-yard. Now both houses stand, wrapped in an elegant shroud-false facade; tenants have long been evicted. Their fate is difficult: in different years, these houses were decided to be demolished, then kept, then built under them a parking lot for residents.
And the place is significant, the vicinity of the Tretyakov Gallery. Nearby are the Kadashevskiye Chambers of the 17th century and the Church of the Icon of Our Lady of All Who Sorrow Joy, on which Vasily Bazhenov (probably) worked (probably) and (quite definitely and a little later) Osip Bove. Close to house 6 there is a “writer’s house” overlooking Lavrushinsky lane, the same one where Margarita destroyed one of the apartments.
Six Russian architectural bureaus took part in the competition: Artistic Design, BuroMoscow, SPEECH, JSB Progress, Studio Utkin, JSB Tsimailo, Lyashenko & Partners; during the jury, the projects were hidden under codes. We publish all six projects.
Jury voting leaders:
BuroMoscow
The simple and clean volume of the building hangs like a cantilever over the sidewalk. Its facades are a sparse grid of wide vertical-horizontal lines of light, probably, stone; the glass surfaces are covered with openwork gratings with a touching drawing, quoting clouds and fir trees from Bilibino illustrations to Russian fairy tales.
AB "Progress"
A modern, and rather brutal, version of the interpretation of the fluid forms of Art Nouveau. Many will probably find it difficult to imagine it next to the Empire church of Beauvais. On the other hand, maybe there is not enough such an unexpected move here - the TASS building has taken root, which this house definitely looks like, on Tverskoy Boulevard.
Other participants in the competition:
Artistic Design
The head of the workshop, Dmitry Velikovsky, is an adherent of the classics. In this project, he combined several wishes of the customer: here there is Shekhtel with Art Nouveau and a panel a la Metropol, and lattices, and neoclassicism.
SPEECH
On the facades, the motives of Stalinist and European Art Deco and even rational modernism of the beginning of the century are guessed, but their main task was, most likely, to create a comfortable environment for a person. The courtyard, contrary to the TK, is not arranged on the side of the Ordynsky blind alley, but inside and is united with the courtyard of the "writer's house". Ornamental reliefs (reminiscent of the "Byzantine" house in Granatny Lane) and the surface of the facades are designed to age nobly, including taking into account the city dust.
Utkin Studio
In memory of the demolished houses, Ilya Utkin made the proportions of the facades in his project similar to the buildings of the 19th century, however, endowing it with Art Deco qualities and strict quotations from classical architecture: the basement floors are covered with rusticated pilasters, the risalit is decorated with a giant serliana.
And the scan seems to say: “Don't touch. Better leave it as it is."
JSB "Tsimailo, Lyashenko & Partners"
The measured alternation of concrete modules could remind EUR (Mussolini's Palace of Italian Civilization at the World Exhibition in Rome), but the parabolic shape of the arches brings us back to Art Nouveau, rethought, however, in the spirit of Niemeyer's modernism. You can also guess the similarity with last year's competition project of the same bureau for Prospect Vernadsky (then, by the way, the customer did not choose the winner) - however, this can be considered a sign of the author's handwriting.
The competition was held with the support of the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of the City of Moscow and the Architectural Council of the City of Moscow. The ProjectNext communications agency was the co-organizer.
Jury of the competition:
- Vladimir Plotkin, founder and chief architect of TPO Reserve;
- Alexey Vorontsov, Head of the Main Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Moscow Region;
- Irina Lebedeva, General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery;
- Sofya Trotsenko, executive director of the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art;
- Mikhail Posokhin, General Director of the State Unitary Enterprise "Mosproekt-2";
- Anton Nadtochy, head of the Atrium architectural bureau;
[UPD 2014-30-10: according to the Moskomarkhitektura, Evgenia Murinets, head of the Office of the Architectural Council, was not a member of the jury. The position of the Moskomarkhitektura is stated on the website of the Arch Council.]
